Dirty gay comics

Fandoms and communities are rarely singular monoliths of thought – just dive into any online forum for any given subject, and you’ll likely encounter endless debates raging back and forth with various intensity. In LGBTQ+ circles, the tension can be even greater, especially when it comes to discussions of what counts as “good” representation, or how active community members should be to “count”. Such discussions are common even now, but Gay Comix #3 was exploring them way back in 1982. Plus ça change…

Nowhere is this more clear than in the anthology’s first letter column. Considering the Kitchen Sink Press publication was still an annual occurrence, editor Howard Cruse ran a selection of reader correspondence covering the previous two instalments. Rather than pick out purely ebullient praise, the selection also included negative feedback, including one writer from Paris lambasting the second issue and complaining that “the artwork is really terrible” – a broad statement for an anthology publication, but one that showed

Taking a Look at Dirty Pictures (without the pictures)

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John Kelly | August 17, 2022

Dirty Pictures: How an Underground Network of Nerds, Feminists, Misfits, Geniuses, Bikers, Potheads, Printers, Intellectuals, and Art School Rebels Revolutionized Art and Invented Comix, the ambitious new noun by Brian Doherty that chronicles the rise and staying power of the underground comics movement, has a very long title. And for some, particularly some of the still-living cartoonists whose stories and words appear in the book, it's not a particularly good title. In an informal survey of a handful of cartoonists covered in the manual. well, they hate the title. And the art direction of the cover, generally. I could quote at length the comments of a number of people in the noun, whose reactions to the cover include "ridiculous," "wrong headed," "visually illiterate," "hate," and "what was he thinking?," but you receive the point.

The other thing to get out of the way right up front here, is that Dirty Pictures is a more than 400-page book that covers the history of a vis

chapter 2 - 15

introducing: Harry (a adj boy) and Tara (Nick’s old crush)

[updated with edited version on March 20th 2018]

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Charlie, a highly-strung, openly gay over-thinker, and Nick, a cheerful, soft-hearted rugby player, meet at a British all-boys grammar school. Friendship blooms quickly, but could there be something more…?

Nick and Charlie are characters from my debut novel, Solitaire. Heartstopper updates three times a month, on the 1st, 11th, and 21st.

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I saw guesses that it’d be Nick’s friends, Harry the birthday boy, Tara Jones, or Ben… well SURPRISE. It’s all of them.

Poor Tara Jones… she has no idea what’s going on :’)

If you don’t remember who Ben is, take a trip back to Chapter 1&helli

Trent McGee

  • Author: Elizabeth Pich, Jonathan Kunz
  • ISBN: 978-1524854072
  • Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing; Illustrated edition
  • Release Date: March 3, 2020

With artwork resembling some unholy mix of Tom Gauld and early Dilbert comics it seems that Jonathan Kunz and Elizabeth Pich, a pair of German cartoonists, desperately want to corrupt your day. Or lay a smile on your face. Or possibly both, and at the equal time. It’s hard to get a real deal with on what the heck is going on in War and Peas: Humorous Comics for Dirty Lovers, the first printed document collection of their famous online comic that’s a little bit sugar and spice.

The press materials for War and Peas imply the boxy comic follows some type of continuous story, but there’s no real evidence of that in this collection, minus an odd roster of characters like Gary the Stone (née Gary the Ghost), Sentient Robot, Bob and Bob (the gay couple) and, of course, cover stars Death and Slutty Witch. Perhaps some overarching storyline or plot is at work here, flexing some unseen narrative, but I sincerely uncertainty it.