Carlo loved to put lines together as a kid. He discovered that this was called "drawing." He drew and drew and drew, making comics in old notebooks. He later realized that he had some writing skill as well, which he put to good use by penning high school book reports of novels that don't exist. His only claim to serious writing fame was winning a university literary award for poetry. After an attempt to create a comics series after college, he took to the corporate world doing public relations work, and at the same time tried his hand in theater acting. But he wanted to make comics so much. So in 2001, he self-published One Night In Purgatory, a short, slightly melodramatic tale about… well… two guys in love. The following year, he turned to superhero comedy with The Spectacular Adventures of Zsazsa Zaturnnah, (title translated from Filipino). It's about a gay beautician who becomes a superhero. That graphic novel won a National Book Award from the Manila Critics  [More...]

Ned is a comic artist and illustrator in Savannah, Georgia. His work has appeared in the anthologies "Science" and "Discovered", both distributed by Top Shelf.   [More...]

Allan Neuwirth is a native New Yorker who writes, creates, develops, produces, directs, and designs animated TV series, screenplays, books, a syndicated comic strip, comic books & graphic novels, games, music videos, and award-winning animated TV commercials. In 1998, with illustrator/writer Glen Hanson (designer of MTV's Spy Groove), Allan co-created the popular comic strip Chelsea Boys, syndicated in dozens of publications and websites all across the U.S., as well as Canada, Spain, and the UK. In 2003, Alyson Books published the first bound Chelsea Boys collection. 2006 saw the release of their second collection (this time in hard cover & full color) from Bruno Gmunder Books: Chelsea Boys Steppin' Out. Some of Allan's current/recent projects: Staff writer on the new animated series "Jungle Junction" (Disney Channel, 2009), "Speed Racer: The Next Generation" (Nicktoons, 2008), "Word World" (PBS, 2008), "Arthur" (PBS, 2008), and "Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies"  [More...]

John Murasky is the founder, owner artist and writer for his own company, Fat Free Comics. Some of the stories are also co-written with his partner, Frank. The current titles from Fat Free Comics include: Magical Fairy Tale Interior Decorator Bears, Craggy Cowpie: Mountain Man Florist and B. Thrustrocket. Fat Free Comics id opperated from a super-secret underground high-tech lair. And by underground lair, I mean a townhouse in California. Please take a moment and check out our site, and preview our books, won't you?  [More...]

Tommy was born in Seoul, South Korea, and raised in Columbia, South Carolina. He attended Harvard as an East Asian Studies concentrator with a particular interest in the ethnic and sexual minority communities of Japan. Before writing comics, he had aspirations to author a fusion Indian/Chinese vegetarian cookbook. Together with artist Brian Ponce, Tommy released his first comic book, "Pride High," in San Francisco on September 29, 2006. Pride High follows the adventures of a gay-straight alliance at a school for super-powered youth. Issues 1-6 of the 36-page, full-color comic are available online and on the shelf at Whatever, the comic shop in the heart of San Francisco's Castro District. Pride High #1 is also available in Braille, Dutch, French, Japanese, and Spanish. For the positive portrayal of a blind lesbian teen, Tommy was awarded in 2007 with a lifetime membership in BFLAG, a national organization serving the needs of LGBT individuals who are blind or  [More...]

Chris DeCarlo began his illustration career as a caricature artist at Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, VA. As a web site designer he has worked with cartooning legends Pat Oliphant and Jim Davis. Other illustration and web design clients include Universal Press, GE, AOL, and Sanofi-Aventis. When he is not launching web sites, Chris busies himself with his two comics, It's the Michaels and Party Chasers. It’s the Michaels is a cartoon tribute to Fire Island, the well-known weekend getaway for gay New Yorkers. Part comical romp and part soap opera romance, It’s the Michaels chronicles the lives of a group of like-named gay men who share a beach house. Party Chasers, Chris’s humor strip, appears bimonthly in NoiZe Magazine and follows two self-absorbed party boys in their never-ending quest for instant gratification. Chris lives in New York City with his partner. They spend their weekends on Fire Island with their own group of close-knit friends. Not all  [More...]

Justin Hall is a San Francisco-based cartoonist, who has been producing independent comics since 2001. His work can be seen on his website. He won a Xeric Award grant for his first comic book A Sacred Text, a fantastical retelling of the story of the Dead Sea Scrolls. After that he began self-publishing his True Travel Tales series, which is a collection of autobiographical and biographical stories from the road, featuring everything from anonymous sex in Egyptian temples to blood sacrifices in Bolivia to smuggling cocaine from Peru. The third True Travel Tales, subtitled "La Rubia Loca", is featured in the Houghton Miflin Best of American Comics 2006. Hall’s work has also appeared in various other publications, such as the San Francisco Bay Guardian, the Book of Boy Trouble, True Porn 2, Juicy Mother 2, Best Erotic Comics 2008, Unsafe For All Ages, Stripped, and more. His character "Glamazonia: The Uncanny  [More...]

I started professional work in 1991 with my full-page cartoon feature "The Adventures of Bumpkin Buzz" in the Comics Buyer's Guide. By 1996, I was also working with Wizard Entertainment on their superhero calendar poster series and have since worked with Wizard on a number of humor pieces, scavenger hunt puzzles, and contributed to their other publications, including Inquest Gamer, Toyfare, Sci Fi Invasion and a variety of special editions. I am currently fortunate enough to be working with Randall Kirby, a brilliantly talented and hilariously funny writer/cartoonist from Oregon, on his four-issue Adventure-Humor creation Disco Ninja. More fun cannot be had. My greatest love is superhero comics, and I must admit I'm growing a bit weary of the revolving door editorial staffing at the Big Two and am becoming winded trying to keep up with which trends are in vogue so my latest pitches can appeal to whomever's in charge at the moment. Thus, I've  [More...]

Originally from Toronto, Canada, Glen Hanson is an award winning illustrator, art director & writer. His illustrations have appeared in magazines around the world including L'uomo Vogue, GQ, Maxim, and the New York Times on clothing for men's wear designer Andrew MacKenzie and for advertising clients like BOD, Grand Marnier and Timex. He has designed animated characters for TV's Babar, Beetlejuice, Daria, Spy Groove, "Crescent Hollow" promos for Soapnet and the interactive game "Naughty America". His first venture into comics was as the Art Direction half of the team "PHOTOGRAPHICS". Together with photographer Dan Couto, they produced a photographic cover & mock movie poster for the independant comic Mr. X created by Dean Motter and the duo self published their own PhotoGraphic Comic story called Diatom all back in the early 90's. The LGBT community may be more familiar with his G-Man and Chelsea Boys  [More...]

Charles Christensen, better known by his nickname "Zan", is best known in comics circles as the founding President of Prism Comics. Prism Comics was formed when a group of gay comics fans and professionals got together and decided to take their passion for the medium and work to level the playing field for other queer comics creators. Only in its fifth year as an officially incorporated nonprofit organization, Prism Comics has surpassed all expectations and become a force for positive change in the industry. In addition to his work with Prism, Zan has been writing comics scripts and occasionally releasing a self-published book or two. His creations include the closeted 1940s super-hero Captain Kinetic and the slice-of-life comedy/drama One Man Guy. His most recent comics project is a collaboration with artist Mark Brill called The Mark of Aeacus. The series focuses on a troubled young man who is given an extraordinary power, and explores the overlap between vengeance,  [More...]

Henry R. Kujawa has been a comic-book fan since 1963 when his parents first bought him a copy of Black Fury while riding the Chesapeake Bay Ferry Boat. He began creating his own comics shortly after and first discovered superheroes in January 1966 thanks to the Adam West Batman TV show. His first published book was 2230, a one-shot MAD Magazine-like parody of Battlestar Galactica, released in 1984— and currently being posted at the Zodiac Comics website! Henry has been a member of KLORDNY, a "Legion Of Super-Heroes" Amateur Press Alliance, since 1991. His comic book obsessions are surpassed only by his mania for 60s rock & roll music, and since 1995 has discovered literally hundreds of "bar bands" who share his obsession and whose talents far outstrip anything the "general public" knows only from radio or MTV. He has written, to date, 339 reviews for Amazon.com. He currently resides in the burnt-out remains of what used to be Camden,  [More...]

Pam Harrison has worked about 15 years in the graphic design industry, starting from the ground up and learning a number of skills from advertising, graphics and website design, Illustrator and has more recently been noted for 3D illustration. From 2005-2006, Pam was a regular face on the OutinAmerica.com Cities Network, where she first made her name in gay and lesbian movie and book reviews, as well as landing her own weekly opinion column, "Speaking Of". An aspiring comics artist since age 12, she eventually learned 3-D graphics, which became the basis for the illustrations in the published version of House of the Muses. Her connections at OIA soon landed her very first book review of House of the Muses in October 2007. She lives in Vine Grove, KY with her partner of 17 years, four cats and three dogs. Their 18 year old son is in the Army now, and they all miss him  [More...]

Freelance writer Tony Smith lives in Boothwyn, Pennsylvania with his partner Jim and their Superbeagle Molly and hasn’t had a real firm grasp on reality since he was six-years old. Even when he does get a grasp on reality, he tends to behave like a six-year-old. Tony contributed four stories and edited the inaugural issue of Queerbait, an LGBT comic book anthology featuring a diverse collection of stories by comics’ next generation of writers and artists. Issue #1 is available for sale at IndyPlanet and Issue #2 will be published soon by Carabosse Comics. He has also written stories for Prism Comics, Fan-Atic Press and Twisted Gate Entertainment. Currently, he also writes freelance articles and comic book creator interviews for Associated Content and PrintNPost and will be contributing stories to future issues of Queerbait. Queeroes is his latest project, an ongoing webcomic that will feature eight page “episodes” spotlighting each of the 12 main  [More...]

Name: Adam David Gragg Age: Old enough to know better, young enough not to care (26) Height: 6'0" Weight: 220 and rising...may not be Arnold, but I'll take what I can get Location: Des Moines, Iowa Bio: Well, lets see, where does one start? I've been writing comics professionally for not too long. Currently, I work for Bluewater Productions under Darren Davis (no not that way...his BF is way hotter than I am anyway.) Some of the books I have worked on include Sinbad and the Merchant of Ages due out in January 2008, Tenth Muse 800 and a new thriller series called Styx & Stone. I also have other various projects in the works that I am looking to collaborate with various artists and writers with. I'm quite sure I will be adding more and more to my profile as time goes by. Bluewater is a great company to work with, but I know that I'll be doing a lot more. Feel free to contact me through my myspace about any possible  [More...]

Jamaica Dyer is currently working on designing storyboards, Flash animation and comics. She's also known to do freelance illustration, set design for indie filmmaking and art direction for print and film. Currently residing in the Bay Area and (at the point of writing this) one month away from receiving her BFA in illustration and animation from San Jose State. Jamaica's been drawing comics since she was a kid, and has self-published numerous zines and has appeared in various indie anthologies and magazines. In college she's learned to cultivate her love for visual storytelling in the animation department, and also branch out into the film department, fine art department and English department. Her latest project is Weird Fishes, her first stab at doing a graphic novel in webcomics, available at jamaicad.com/comic. It features two kids on the brink of becoming teenagers: Dee is a girl who behaves a little too crazy for her age and hallucinates giant talking animals and monsters,  [More...]

After working for Marvel Comics and DC Comics, comics creator Robert Walker premiered his company Digital Noixe Productions and launched a book called Delete in 2004. It was followed up by the book O+Men in May of 2007. O+Men features an array of HIV-positive superheroes: Nightcry, a white gay guy ('an edgy Batman'); Burn, a lesbian; K-oss, a black bisexual jock; Precious ('a Paris Hilton type'); Goth, a former drug user; Agony, a black ballerina; Eros, a male model; Slumber, a Dominican man ('a Freddy Krueger type'); and Memory, an Asian female punk rocker.  [More...]