Gay Comix (later spelled Gay Comics) is an unrground ics seri published om 1980–1998. Created by Howard Cse, Gay Comix featured the work of primarily gay and lbian rtoonists. Much of the early ntent was tobgraphil, but more diverse them were explored later edns. Autobgraphil them clu fallg love, g out, reprsn, and…
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GAY COMICS
Gay Comix (later spelled Gay Comics) is an unrground ics seri published om 1980–1998. Created by Howard Cse, Gay Comix featured the work of primarily gay and lbian rtoonists.
Gay Comix also served as a source for rmatn about non-mastream LGBT-themed ics and events. The ntents of Gay Comix were generally about relatnships, personal experienc, and humor, rather than sex. Artists producg work for Gay Comix clud.
Kchen Sk Prs published the first five issu of Gay Comix; thereafter was published by Bob Ross, publisher of the Bay Area Reporter gay newspaper. Andy Mangels eded issu #14 to #25 and a special issue featurg Barela; Mangels changed the tle to Gay Comics startg wh issue #15, part to divt of the “unrground” implitns of “ix”. Excerpts om Gay Comix were clud a 1989 anthology tled Gay Comics.
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Alexanr Gay Artadm2021-06-09T20:31:18+01:00. Tom of Fland and Bill Ward of Dm fame are gay artists whose work I greatly admire, as well as the humor and imagatn of Roberta Gregory, Howard Cse's precise le and sophistited storytellg, and Ivan Velez 's ic/soap opera Tal Of the Closet. I’ve llected some of my favore piec after the jump… and by favore, I mean most homoerotic.
Jerry Douglas's Tubstrip, a risque edy set a gay bathhoe, was a popular sensatn when produced onstage 1973-1974, the era of gay liberatn and the sexual revolutn. The play, often dismissed by mastream crics but hailed as "funny, sexy, and important" by the gay prs, ran for 140 performanc off-Broadway, then toured to eight ci over ne months, and returned to Broadway starrg the legendary adult film star Casey Donovan the lead role.
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Dpe s unprecented succs and acclaim, the play was not officially published until wh the but publitn of the script of the play, this edn clus a foreword by Jordan Schildcrout tled "Tubstrip and The Erotic Theatre of Gay Liberatn", which exam the signifince of the play as one of a wave of erotic gay plays (most of them fotten or lost) that emerged between 1969 and 1974. He went on to have a major reer gay male pornography, directg numero award-wng films between 1989 and 2007, such as More of a Man, Flh & Blood, Dream Team, and Schildcrout is Associate Profsor of Theatre & Performance at SUNY Purchase.
Larry Gilman plays Brian, the gay bathhoe attendant lookg for love the era of sexual liberatn. Lee Barton, reviewg the play for The Advote, lled "funny, sexy, and important, " but wonred whether mastream crics uld "tolerate anythg gay that is so open and healthy. Some crics regard the tour as "homosexploatn, " but the Philalphia Enquirer lled "somethg of an event the history of gay liberatn...
Assertg as do not the sickns but the validy of homosexual affectn and homoerotic appeal. One San Francis review praised Tubstrip as an exemplar of gay liberatn, remarkg, "When is the last time you walked out of a play or film about gays and felt good?