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Queer ics are one of the most vibrant areas of ntemporary ics, fueled large part by the naway succs of Alison Bechl’s 2006 graphic memoir Fun Home: A Fay Tragiic—the story of a gay girl and her closeted, ultimately suicidal gay father that was adapted to be a Broadway mil of the same tle, and went on to w the Tony Award for Bt Mil 2015. Gayns ed to be a public accatn leveled at ics to discred the medium: the 1950s, Batman and Rob, and Wonr Woman, were spected to be gay, and therefore a negative fluence. Fredric Wertham wrote his fluential book on ics that the former reprent “a wish dream of two homosexuals livg together, ” and for the latter, “the homosexual nnotatn of the Wonr Woman type of story is psychologilly unmistakable … For girls she is a morbid ial.
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” The famo 1954 Comics Co, spired by Wertham’s study, banned “sex perversn or any ference to same”—a clear reference to homosexualy. ” Most signifintly, however, the range and volume of queer ics appearg right now monstrat how forcefully the reali and tails of gay life n get exprsed and visualized ics.
Bechl’s hugely important and popular syndited ic strip Dyk to Watch Out For, which chronicl the everyday liv of a diverse group of mostly gay iends and lovers, began 1983 and ran for twenty-six years; changed ics culture and broar queer culture fively. The film director Lana Wachowski, of the Matrix anchise (and a trans gay woman), wrote recently that although she was a fan of mastream ics as a kid, and later the work of Robert Cmb, “It wasn’t until I disvered Alison Bechl’s Dyk to Watch Out For that I really unrstood what I was lookg for, a queer world wh stori and characters that I uld regnize, that I uld lgh wh and re about.
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