Gay cartoon artists
10 LGBTQ International Cartoonists You Should Know
When people think of gender non-conforming comics, artists like Howard Cruse (Wendell, Stuck Rubber Baby) or Alison Bechdel (Fun Home, Dykes To Monitor Out For) generally approach to mind — both Americans. If you seek someone to think of queer comics from around the world, you might get Tom of Finland. But there’s so many more great queer cartoonists you should know. We’ve assembled this list of cartoonists from everywhere but the United States and Canada (that list is coming later) of cartoonists you’ve got to know.
Laerte
The brilliant cartoonist Laerte is one of the most famous cartoonists in Brazil. She’s been involved in comics since the s, and was a vast part of the underground comix scene in Brazil throughout the s. Her comics can be political — makes sense, since she’s created comics for the Brazilian Democratic Movement, comics to support political prisoners and comics to be used by labor unions across Brazil. As you can see above, she’s also great at silent strips; while the are not the majority of her output, small of her work has b
Celebrate PRIDE All Year with These LGBTQ Comics Creators
Pride Month may be coming to an terminate, but you can keep the celebration going all year with these groundbreaking LGBTQ creators!
1. Alison Bechdel
From her famous alt-weekly strip Dykes to Watch Out For to a blockbuster Broadway musical and a MacArthur Genius Grant, Alison Bechdel has transformed all comics and brought LGBTQ stories into the mainstream. Fun Home, a memoir of her complicated relationship with her father, received universal critical praise and has made its way into the post-secondary canon &#; where it also became a frequent target of would-be censors.
2. Ariel Schrag
Before Ariel Schrag had even finished high school, she had already published three volumes of her High University Comic Chronicles series. Her ambitious and confessional work has been widely celebrated, drawing comparisons to notables such as Alison Bechdel, Judy Blume, and R. Crumb. Her operate honestly confronts coming of age, sexual awakening, and sexual identity, often with sharp and mesmerizing humor. She edited and contributed to t
I caught up with Juraj Straka for a behind-the-scenes look at the universe of Cartoon Called Life.
“The whole thing started 9 years ago…” explains Juraj. “It all started in a very innocent, non-planned way, when my boyfriend gave me the nickname &#; My Little Bunny.”
“I lived in Lyon, in France. My boyfriend was very keen on the fact that I arrive from Slovakia. He had this whole thing for Eastern European guys &#; which worked for me. He was really into learning Slovak &#; just little words and phrases.”
“We were talking about animals, and &#; for whatever reason &#; he asked me how you say ‘rabbit’, which is ‘zajac’. I don’t know why but he loved the word. He kept on repeating it and eventually it became my nickname.”
“I embraced the nickname. When I was writing a post-it or something &#; ‘please do the dishes’ &#; instead of signing it, I would just do a small doodle of a bunny. That’s how it started.”
“In the first stage, the whole thing was very private. It was just between me and him and our friends. I gave him a nickname also, he was Bear &#; ‘Medveď’. So the first adven
20 Essential Gay Comics from the Past Five Years
MariNaomi is an Eisner Award–nominated and SPACE Award–winning cartoonist and the founder and administrator of the Cartoonists of Color, Gender non-conforming Cartoonists, and Disabled Cartoonists databases. Their graphic novelLosing the Girl was among those banned in the Katy, Tex., school district in In May, Fieldmouse Press will publish their ninth book, the graphic memoirI Thought You Loved Me.
These books include a variety of subjects, themes, moods, and styles, all queer books by queer authors. I’ve mixed it up in command to give an concept of how diverse gay comics can be, through my particular lens—my tastes skew toward mature personal narratives and indie artwork. It is in no way a complete list, just a taste.
1. Ebony Men by Ajuan Mance (Stacked Deck)
Mance’s book is a love letter to the Black men she deems as often overlooked by traditional media. Sometimes stories or poems accompany the portraits, sometimes the images speak for themselves.