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THE WEREWIF
Written by Michael Wakcher and Gwydhar Bratton
Illustrated by A. Gwydhar Bratton
BOYS & BERRIES
By Alejandro Morales
RAINBOW WARRIORS
Written and created by Manuel Ríos Sarabia
Pencils by Gared Campos
Digital Inks and color by Evim Aguilar
THE FEARLESS ZOMBIE HUNTERS
Written and Created by Manuel Ríos Sarabia
Art by Gared Campos
Lettering and tweaking Sadhaka
SAINT CARRIE OF THE DIVINE PAGEANT
Story and Lettering by Brian Andersen
Art and Colors by Michael Troy
THIS GAY EXISTENCE
by Adam Fair
PINK TIE
By Rob Dennis
ANOTHER TIME
By Richard Crockett
BORDERLINE
Lorin Arendt
THE CATTY CORNER
by Joe Carr
MY BEST FRIEND IS GAY
by Jessica Zimmer
AARON FREY
Written and drawn by Aaron Frey
UNABASHEDLY BILLIE
Words and Pictures by Brian Andersen
Inks and Letters by Preston Nesbit
LOVE, DEATH, AND UFOS
Story & Art: Mark Andrews
Graphics & Lettering: Bretton Clark
Titles: Aenigma:design
PRIDE HIGH
Story by Tommy Roddy
Pencils, Inks, & Colors by Brian Ponce
Edited by Carl Hippensteel
MADKAT THE KOMIC
Writer and Artist: Rick Dilley
EMANCIPATION
Tony Smith, Story & Letters
Rick Withers, Original Pencils & Inks
Giuseppe Pica, Colors
SPARKLE #1: THE LOST PAGES
Paige & Kevin Alexis (PKA)
LOVE
Written and drawn by Matt Fagan
ANGLE #1: THE LOST PAGES
Paige & Kevin Alexis (PKA)

Queer Eye on Comics
THE UNOFFICIAL HANDBOOK OF THE MARVEL Q-NIVERSE, PART 1
Posted February 7th, 2010
“SHADOW PUPPETS AND RILLY BRITE LITE"
Posted February 1st, 2010
A GAY MAN’S LOVE FOR A FISHY WOMAN
Posted January 24th, 2010
TURNING BACK THE CLOCK
Posted December 20th, 2009
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Color Commentary
RELATIVE HEROES.
Posted January 14th, 2010
12 DAYS
Posted January 1st, 2010
ONE BLOODY YEAR
Posted December 31st, 2009
NIGHTLIFE
Posted November 5th, 2009
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Spectrum
YOU CAN SUPPORT THE QUEER PRESS GRANT!
Posted October 1st, 2009
QUEER PRESS GRANT SPOTLIGHT: MEGAN ROSE GEDRIS
Posted September 17th, 2009
QPG SPOTLIGHT: PAM HARRISON AND TOMMY RODDY
Posted September 10th, 2009
QPG SPOTLIGHT: STEVE MACISAAC & JUSTIN HALL
Posted September 3rd, 2009
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External Features
THE CONFLUENCE OF HEROISM, SISSYHOOD, AND CAMP IN THE RAWHIDE KID: SLAP LEATHER
Posted February 4th, 2010
on University of Florida Department of English
Based on a character from the 1950s, The Rawhide Kid: Slap Leather appeared in 2003 as a five–part serial in which Johnny Bart was reconceived as a gay gunslinger known as the Rawhide Kid. Over the course of the five installments, the...
GAY MEN IN UNDERGROUND COMIX
Posted January 24th, 2010
on StreetLaughter
Well I’ve ploughed my way through all manner of magazines in the course of all this. But I’ve not got around to the underground comix of the late ‘60s and ‘1970s before.
FOX TO ADAPT TORCHWOOD FOR THE USA
Posted January 19th, 2010
on Bleeding Cool
Torchwood, adult sci-fi alien-chasing spinoff of Doctor Who, was one of the very few shows to have a bisexual character in the lead, even if the bisexuality seemed to be catching, with all of the characters falling prey to its charms....
NOTRE DAME ISSUES APOLOGY FOR ANTI-GAY CARTOON
Posted January 18th, 2010
on Just Out
The Editor-in-Chief of Notre Dame’s The Observer, Jenn Metz, along with three contributors to the cartoon “The Mobile Party,” have issued a public apology after an anti-gay comic was printed in the paper recently.

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Dudity In Comics: Could 2009 Be Our Year?
by Kyle Minor
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A graphic essay about graphic comics and how they could be more so.

Merry Happy, Queer Eye on Comics fans! If you're anything like me, the holidays (or "Sparkle Season" as it has come to be known in my former home of Pittsburgh), then your head is filled with thoughts of glistening balls, stiff and sweet canes, and all manner of delicious goo covering every surface. That's right... 'tis the Season to be preoccupied with male genitalia!

For those of us left unfulfilled by the vast array of male members available in full-on pornography, I've got a good feeling that comics are going to be the next frontier for a new wave of what the kids are calling "Dudity," a cute and rather sexy way of referring to male frontal (or rear-view, I suppose) nudity. Imagine fraternity brothers romping in the gang shower (as I do every day at precisely 12:45 pm), and you'll get what I mean. Dudity is that casual "Hey... here is my penis!" kind of nudity that so many guys seem to toss off with regularity.

Suddenly, I am only slightly regretting that phrasing.

It's your hot neighbor dropping trou in the driveway to take a leak during a picnic. It's the sailors on shore leave during Fleet Week getting a little overly excited. It's your rugby coach changing on the side of the field after a tough game. Yeah... it's definitely that.

Sorry... where was I? Oh yes! Comics. The way I see it, comics are poised to be the next venue for casual looks at the family jewels. Now I'm not talking about porn comics like Hard To Swallow, or True Adult Fantasy or the work of Patrick Fillion. I'm talking about the matter-of-fact sexuality that female characters in comics have been exhibiting since William Moulton Marston first tied up Princess Diana to a tree trunk in her bustier. Boys... it is time we get equal treatment! Where is our Tony Stark tied to a tree in a jock strap! And don't tell me to Google it, because believe me... I have!

The main reason I think this way is because of the imminent release of a major motion picture featuring a quite famous comics character who is known to strut around in various states of undress. No... I'm not talking about famous dude-ist Eric Balfour in The Spirit (although maybe I should) or even Hugh Jackman as you-know-who-Bub. No... of course I'm talking about Billy Crudup, due to flash his electric blue electric eel as Dr. Manhattan in the long-awaited Watchmen movie. In Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' magnum opus, Dr. M is so removed from humanity on most levels that clothes seem completely unnecessary. His secondary sexual characteristics may have been unnecessary as well, but that didn't keep him from flashing them pretty good in the comic. In the end, they convinced him to wear what amounted to a little black thong that would have made him the envy of every muscle queen in South Beach.

The promise that we might get to see Crudup's CGI-stuff on screen I think bodes well for the likelihood that our future glimpses of manly junk won't be strictly limited to Alan Quartermain in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. I mean... the fact that we got to see it in both the original series and again (in thankfully rejuvenated form) in The Black Dossier is nice enough, but let's get real. Come to think of it... LoEG (as opposed, of course, to LXG) is another Alan Moore project. Is he trying to tell us something? And is that something "Penises are great?" If so, bully for you, Mr. Moore.

For years we have had cartoonish depictions of twigs and berries in indie comics, but one (admittedly hilarious) Johnny Ryan strip doesn't really deliver the goods, you know?

In mainstream comics, we're limited to the occasional inappropriate malaprop or hilarious Ed McGuinness picture.

Man of Steel indeed. Those oversize suckers are always made of latex. At least Stephen Sadowski can be counted on for a studly Hawkman or Wildcast in a towel—mostly because he's one of us! Sisters are doin' it for themselves, SAD! How about you work in a shot of Namor's fishbait in the next issue of Avengers/Invaders? We will pay extra for the non-code approved version.

So chin up, fans of dicks and hairys! If I'm right, we're in for a parade of wooden soldiers... and not the Nutcracking kind! Happy holidays from all of us here at QEoC!


Native West Virginian and San Francisco resident Kyle Minor spent years training to be the perfect Sugarplum Fairy, only to find out years too late that he was concentrating on the wrong kind of Sugarplum. Turns out the Christmas-y kind do NOT require the protection of a sports cup. Who knew?

Article copyright Kyle Minor.

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