José Villarrubia's Recommended Top Ten Comics for LGBT Readers
by José Villarrubia
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 1) Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse
Published by Paradox Press
Category: Soap Opera/Historical Drama
"Our Maus": The one great ambitious achievement in alternative comics dealing directly with gay subject matter.
Buy this book here or ask for it at your local comics shop.
 2) Enigma by Peter Milligan and Duncan Fegredo
Published by DC/Vertigo
Category: Fantasy/Superheroes
It's been called "The Watchmen of the Nineties." A vastly underrated superhero story exploring the homoerotic subtext of superhero worshiping.
Buy this book here or ask for it at your local comics shop.
 3) Top Ten: The Forty-niners by Alan Moore and Gene Ha
Published by DC/America's Best Comics
Category: Romance/Superheroes
A great coming out/first love story in a superhero universe.
Buy this book here or ask for it at your local comics shop.
 4) Love and Rockets by the Hernandez Brothers
Published by Fantagraphics
Category: Soap Opera
The Defining book for Alternative comics in the Eighties, Maggie and Hopey are the most beloved on and off queer couple in comics.
Buy this book here or ask for it at your local comics shop.
 5) Leonard and Larry by Tim Barela
Published by Palliard Press
Category: Soap Opera/Humor
Everyday life stories of a gay couple that face the joys and trials of modern living.
Buy this book here or ask for it at your local comics shop.
 6) Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
Published by Alyson Publications
Category: Soap Opera/Humor
The best Lesbian-centered soap opera in any medium.
Buy this book here or ask for it at your local comics shop.
 7) Vellevison by Maurice Vellekoop
Published by Drawn and Quarterly
Category: Short Stories/Humor
An extraordinary illustrator with an extraordinary sense of humor.
Buy this book here or ask for it at your local comics shop.
 8) Seven Miles A Second by David Wojnarowicz and James Romberger
Published by Vertigo Verite
Category: Autobiography
The harrowing, delirious and visionary early life of amazing artist David Wojnarowicz.
Buy this book here or ask for it at your local comics shop.
 9) Bread & Wine: An Erotic Tale of New York by Samuel R. Delany and Mia Wolff
Published by Juno Books
Category: Autobiography
The most unusual love story that you have ever read, it truly pushes the envelope on issues of sexuality, class and race.
Buy this book here or ask for it at your local comics shop.
 10) Tapping the Vein by Clive Barker, P. Craig Russell, Scott Hampton, John Bolton
Published by Checker
Category: Horror/ Fantasy
Matched with great illustrators, Barker's short stories come to life as some of the best translations of one medium into another.
Buy this book here or ask for it at your local comics shop.
José Villarrubia is an Eisner Award-nominated painter/photographer/digital artist. A long-time Baltimore resident, he is currently spending a year in Paris.
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