Robert Kirby is a Detroit native, now living in Minneapolis with another boy and a dog. His comic strip, "Curbside", has been appearing in the gay and alternative presses since 1991. The first book collection, Curbside, was published by Hobnob Press in 1998 with the aid of a grant from the Xeric Foundation. it is now an out of print collectors item, selling for outrageous prices on Amazon and other booksellers. So hold to your copy - it's like gold, man. The second collection, Curbside Boys, was published in October 2002 by Cleis Press, and there a Spanish edition available from Ediciones La Cupula in Barcelona. A third collection, the working title of which is "Curbside Boys in Love and in Trouble", is in the works (yes, still - endlessly). Robert is the founder of the gay boy comics anthology Boy Trouble which he co-edits with fellow cartoonist, the talented and effervescent David Kelly. The fifth issue, an 80-page trade paperback, was released in 2004. In  [More...]

I’m a cartoonist (actually I also do other stuff such as writing articles, but I am mostly a cartoonist), and I have three aliases (by now): Valeriano Elfodiluce (for soft stuff, the articles and the various editorial collaborations), Wally Rainbow (for the hardcore stuff) and Wally Lightelf (for everything not specifically concerning the LGBT world). My real name is Valeriano Scassa and I was born in 1976 in a little town in North Italy named Piacenza. It isn't easy to make gay comics in Italy, because we don't have a real LGBT community and we don't have a gay pop-culture like other countries in Europe or U.S. I'm the first author to create a gay online serial in Italy, like the gay sit-com Rainbows (initially for Gay.It) and the hard parody of Robin Hood Tales, Robin Hoog. I also created the first italian gay superhero for gay magazines G&L and Babilonia: Captain Gel. With my other comics, the sci-fi Go Go Stars and the fantasy Troy, I'm the  [More...]

Hi my name is Raul Faria and Ive been a lifelong comic book reader and have been an artist all my life. Some of my projects include Lynx Delerium's Queerbait ("Impossible Relationships" and cover), Tommy Roddy's Pride High ("Elective Credit") and I am also currently writing and providing the art for my own series The Mark of Gabriel. The Mark of Gabriel will be an ongoing series and new issues will be available bi-monthly. For more information on upcoming projects and to check out the latest Mark of Gabriel info, go to fariagraphics.com and myspace.com/raulfaria.  [More...]

Lee Marrs was one of the founding mommies of the Wimmen's Comix Collective. Her comic book work includes Zatanna: Come Together, Heartbreakers Superdigest: Year 10, Vertigo's Fault Lines with Bill Koeb, alternative press' Pudge, Girl Blimp, Unicorn Isle Betrayed, and The Compleat Fart, various Epic Illustrated and Heavy Metal tales, the graphic novel Viking Glory: The Viking Prince, The Big Book of Urban Legends, scripts for Wonder Woman & Legends of the Dark Knight, Indiana Jones and the Arms of Gold, and Indiana Jones and the Iron Phoenix. She has drawn news art and cartoons for newspapers from the Washington Post to the Berkeley Barb; for magazines from the Saturday Review to Crawdaddy. Her work has been reprinted in nine countries, including eight book collections in three countries. Lee received the Inkpot Award in 1982 and served as an Eisner Award judge  [More...]

I'm a 30 year old, Polyamorous, Pansexual, Divorced, artist living in Seattle. Lean on Me is my webcomic. It is about an unpopular young woman who meets a suspected crossdresser at school and falls in love. Lean on Me has been published on the web since early 2001. This first chapter involves Yun and J.J. meeting, falling in love, and trying to attend school together as a couple, despite the threats of violence around them. After meeting Yuki and Elizabeth, the four start their own social clique, and conspire to attend the prom as each other's dates. Pour Morir is a one shot comic that I released previews of on my webcomic site, but it is only available as a complete work via Lulu.com. This work is roughly about a dying man and the reaper that comes to take him away. It is a strange and slightly incoherent trip through the supernatural, with an overall tone of sadness and fear. You can also find my art on DeviantArt.com, and in various places on the web.   [More...]

I'm an artist, mystery & horror writer and comic strip artist living in Washington, D.C. It doesn't feel like it, but really. Black Gay Boy Fantasy is my mini comic about black gay & lesbian life in D.C. It began as a one shot strip for the 1996 Black Lesbian and Gay Pride Guide. The first issue was sold at Boston's Outwrite '98. Those characters also starred in the "Little Dramas" comic strip which was featured on the Women In the Life website. My amateur detective, Rene C. Clayton is in a short story called "Justifiable Disappearance" under the Spring 1999 edition of Blithe House Quarterly. My "too short-lived" strip, "Federal Barbee" appeared in the Department of Interior's GLOBE newsletter. "Bad Day," starring long term couple, Derrick and Rodney from BGBF will be published in Jennifer Camper's Juicy Mother#2: How They Met . A new character to the world of BGBF, Jesus makes his appearance in Zan Christensen's Unsafe For All Ages  [More...]

Ariel Schrag was born in 1979 in Berkeley, California. She is the author of the graphic novels Awkward, Definition, Potential and Likewise, which chronicle her four years at Berkeley High School. Potential was nominated for an Eisner award and is currently being developed into a feature film. The books are published by Touchstone/Simon & Schuster. Schrag is also the editor of and a contributor to the anthology Stuck in the Middle: 17 Comics from an Unpleasant Age, published by Viking. Schrag was a writer for seasons 3 and 4 of the hit Showtime series The L Word. She lives in Los Angeles.  [More...]

I've been a comic book fan since seventh grade. I became a comic book creator by accident. I spent 10 years acting in New York City. I studied with the great Fred Kareman, and I worked quite a bit. I even wrote, produced, and starred in a one man show, Up, Up & Away!, based on my lifelong passion for comics. As an actor, I almost always had a side job to make ends meet. A few years ago, I ended up bartending in a local gay bar. By this writing, I have bartended in several gay bars. These days, I do occasional voice-over acting, but most of my creative energy goes to my comic strip, From The Cellar. Inspired by my front seat view of New York City Gay Nightlife, I created From The Cellar on a whim. It kinda took over from there. Many talented artists have participated, and I can't wait to publish it as a Graphic Novel when it's finished. From The Cellar's mix of fiction and fact baffles even me, so I find it hard to describe my comic; but I'm very proud  [More...]

Michael J. DiMotta is a graduate from Maryland Institute College of Art, where as an Illustration Major, he studied sequential art and illustration. Currently located in Forest Hills, Queens, Michael is making a living as a freelance illustrator and story-teller, with clients that include: Perkins Eastman Architects, Instinct, Scholastic, and many more. Michael has contributed to Tim Fish's on-line daily Young Bottoms in Love and he is currently printing his own childrens' books which can be purchased at small press expos around the country or from his online portfolio: www.michaeldimotta.com   [More...]

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...]

Diana Green is a 54-year-old post-op transsexual and has a number of firsts to her credit. She is the first transsexual woman (possibly the first transsexual at all) to earn a BFA in Comic Book Illustration. She created the first dramatic/ humorous transsexual funny animal comic strip for the gay press, Tranny Towers, which ran for about a year and a half in Minneapolis' bimonthly Lavender magazine; she is the first transsexual woman to self-publish a comic book, Ink Tantrums 1. Her other principal comic, Speedy Ricuverri (pronounced "recovery") and His All-girl Orchestra, nearly sold out its print run. Many of these are firsts largely because it didn't occur to anyone else to bother. Despite this, she remains proud. She also interned briefly with Reed Waller. Her splotches and unevenly cut zipatone may be seen in Omaha, the Cat Dancer 13 and 14, and the opening story in The Collected Omaha Vol. 4. The accompnaying photo of Diana And Reed was taken at  [More...]

Alison Bechdel, a careful archivist of her own life, began keeping a journal when she was ten. Since 1983, she has been chronicling the lives of various characters in the Dykes to Watch Out For strip, “one of the preeminent oeuvres in the comics genre, period” (Ms.). The strip is syndicated in dozens of newspapers, translated into several languages and collected in a series of award-winning books. Utne magazine has listed DTWOF as “one of the greatest hits of the twentieth century.” And Comics Journal says, “Bechdel’s art distills the pleasures of Friends and The Nation; we recognize our world in it, with its sorrows and ironies.” In addition to her comic strip, Bechdel has also done exclusive work for a slew of publications, including Ms., Slate, the Advocate, and many other newspapers, websites, comic books, and ‘zines. She is also the author of the best-selling Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist. Time Magazine named Fun Home  [More...]

Born 1957. An Australian transgendered Artist/Writer. Laura began her gender transition in 1994, and after a drastic move from Perth, Western Australia to Lake Macquarie, New South Wales in 1996, studied at Newcastle University. She has a Bachelor (Hons) in Visual Arts, her most recent Arts project was A Trans Tarot Deck, and Laura's "Queer Stuff" and "Apocryphal Tales" strips has appeared both in Out Now and Polare. Laura is also a neo-pagan, a modern Gallae of Cybele, and her web comic series Tales of the Galli (n historical drama) reflect this. Her interests include philosophy, film and music, and Forteana.  [More...]

Brian Andersen is a super, major, comic book nerd to the Nth degree and beyond. Since he was a wee boy of eight, Brian has mauled through comics, riding his bike, even in the rain, to his local comic book store 30 minutes away. He has never stopped reading and loving comics, even during those long, awkward, muscial theater teen years. Now that Brian has somewhat matured he has finally realized his life-long goal of creating his very own comic book! He is crazy excited to present his first published work called So Super Duper. Issues ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR and FIVE are available NOW in the Prism Store! So Super Duper is a cute tale about an everyman superhero named Psyche, who isn't quite as super as his powerful teammates. He slowly learns that his lack of super abilities isn't the only thing that makes him different, as everyone (but himself), knows that he is totally gay! Check out sosuperduper.com to see 6 FREE preview pages of each issue! And keep your peepers  [More...]

Dylan "NDR" Edwards is a writer, artist, and cartoonist currently living in Austin, Texas. His work appears both in print and on the web. He has self-published four minicomics to date (Politically InQueerect #1 and #2, Feeping Creatures #1, and Enderstated #1). Politically InQueerect #3 is being serialized a page at a time on his Studio NDR website. He is currently working on a graphic book for Beacon Press, to be published in Spring of 2010. It is a non-fiction work chronicling the lives of a group of queer-identified FTMs and genderqueers. The book is not yet untitled. His monthy queers-in-sports cartoon, The Outfield, is published on-line at Outsports.com, and at NationalGayNews.com. National Gay News is also running Politically InQueerect strips. Dylan participates in art shows and comic/sci-fi conventions to showcase his comics, non-comic 2D art, and his sculptures of fantastical monsters, Feeping Creatures. He can typically be found  [More...]

Steven Gellman lives in Germantown, MD with his partner Tony, a variety of critters and makes his living as a singer/songwriter. He has four CD's to his name and a fifth "Peaceful World" on the way. He has toured all over the US and Canada with Billboard magazine describing his music as "Intensively sensitive and impressively intelligent at the same time". Besides music, Steven first love is comic books. Having recently gone back to drawing/writing comics after an almost 10 year hiatus (where music kept him very, very busy) he is thrilled to be back working on his fantasy/adventure/superhero comic book series The Enchanters. The Enchanters follow a group of young gay and lesbian heroes as they deal with everyday issues as well as supernatural ones.   [More...]

I am Gregorio Narvasa JUNIOR, A Publisher, Designer & Artist. I created LO-FI comics and entertainment magazine. I started out as an illustrator wanting to draw comics; I didn't have the "IT" factor or consistancy, but I found a niche where I was computer coloring for comics for a few years. That eventually left a bad taste in my mouth so I left the comics idustry even though DC/Wildstorm offered me a colorist job. This led into a bunch of insane jobs, the worst and oddest of which was as a door-to-door salesman selling coupon promos for oil changes and resturants. Then dreadfully I went back to an old job, took sh*tty pay for about six months and then dramatically broke out from there and started BAD MUNKIE PRESS, my own design company. Six months later, LO-FI came to fruition, a month later issue #1 was in my hands February 2003. After eight issues the plug was pulled but the publisher in may 2006. ABOUT LO-FI magazine LO-FI comics & entertainment  [More...]