Prism Comics is proud to announce that submissions are still being accepted for the 2010 Prism Comics Queer Press Grant, with a deadline of September 15th, 2010. The QPG was established by Prism to assist in the publication and promotion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender comics. "The Queer Press Grant continues to be one of the most significant grants dedicated to supporting independent comic books," says Justin Hall, Prism's Talent Relations Chair. "The Grant is given to a cartoonist, comics writer/artist or team working on a project with LGBT characters or themes, to assist them in publishing a new project or expanding an existing one. Since 2005, the annual Grant has provided recipients with a substantial sum of money, which has varied according to our fundraising  [Continue reading...]

There are only a few more months until the thrilling conclusion of The Werewif. Starting today, Wednesday, August 25, you can read 36 new pages of this comic epic! This time Linus is offered a choice that could end is problems or make them immeasurably worse. Read The Werewif from the start here and the new pages here. The Werewif is written by Michael Wakcher and Gwydhar Bratton and iIllustrated by A. Gwydhar.   [Continue reading...]

At Comic-Con, Prism Comics presented a panel on the Queer Press Grant (QPG), announcing that the deadline for the grant has been pushed up to September 15. So get your application together now! The QPG was established to encourage the publication of more (and more and more) comics with LGBT characters and themes. The panel was moderated by Roger Klorese, one of our mainstays at Prism and currently acting as Publications Chair, with three past QPG recipients on the panel--Steve MacIsaac, Ed Luce, Justin Hall--plus Charles "Zan" Christensen who helped establish the grant. Much practical advice for was given to the audience members, many of whom (by a show of hands) were interested in applying. Charles “Zan” Christensen (Prism’s Web Chair as well as its founding member) gave some  [Continue reading...]

Tim Fish! We were so glad to see one of the most prolific and prominent LGBT writer/artists in comics at the Prism booth and at the Gays in Comics panel at Comic-Con. Tim’s latest work appeared in none other than Marvel Comics, with a Northstar story in an issue of the mutant book, Nation X #2, written and drawn by Tim. Here’s an interview with Tim about this issue on marvel.com. Excellent work, Tim! William O. Tyler posed for my camera uh smart phone thing, with his book Queerbait. It’s always great to see you! You can find out all about William’s goings on and publications at carabossecomics.com. Abby Denson brought a beautiful shiny collection of her Dolltopia comics, which is available here. She’s also a Prism regular who’s been  [Continue reading...]

Justin Hall came armed with not one but three new comics! First, a new Glamazonia adventure titled Glamazonia The Uncanny Super-Tranny…J.F.Killer?. “Watch in amazement as our favorite Super Tranny has a three-way with Fidel and Che, and becomes implicated in J.F.K.’s assassination! It’s all based on totally true events, swear to god!” His two other books were two new minis: Le Croisic: Our Night in a French Phone Booth and Dirty Drawings. Justin also announced that the new Northwest Press will be publishing a big, full-color Glamazonia book in December, so keep your eyes out for that (or just go to Justin’s website). And merch! Justin also brought his new line of Heroic Bear cards (Wonder Bear, Ninja Bear, Cow Bear, Lucha Bear, and Bear Barian), as  [Continue reading...]

Here’s part three of my Comic-Con new LGBT comics report. I know, so much new stuff! Paige Braddock, a great supporter of Prism and someone who has contributed a large amount of funding for our Queer Press Grant, appeared at the Prism booth signing copies of her bestselling Jane’s World collections plus teasing us with info on two imminent publications: Jane’s World Volume 10 plus the sci-fi romantic action comedy The Martian Confederacy Volume 2: From Mars, With Love (written by Robert McNamara), the sequel to um…the first one. Also, if you need your fix of Jane’s adventures, you can read new Jane’s World strips each week at www.comics.com and After Ellen, plus the newspapers Washington Blade, New York Blade, Southern Voice-Atlanta, Houston Voice,  [Continue reading...]

As promised, here’s Part Two of my Guide to new comics that made their debuts at Comic-Con. So much new stuff, enough to make a girl dizzy. The lovely and talented Brian Andersen brought the latest, greatest, super-tacular So Super Duper #10 with story by Brian and art by the superb Celina Hernandez. You can get a preview of it on Brian’s website along with his other new book called Friend of Dorothy (story by Brian, art by Neftali Centeno) where Scott-John meets Gorlindo, The Good Witch from Oz. It looks great. I was so glad to spend some time with Brian at the Prism booth, as he’s always so nice and funny, plus I got to meet his boyfriend Preston, who is a very sweet guy. We always appreciate having Brian at our Prism events. Steve MacIsaac, the winner of the  [Continue reading...]

Loads of new LGBT comics debuted at Comic-Con this year from creators such as Justin Hall, Howard Cruse, Brad Rader, Brian Andersen, Ed Luce, Dave Davenport, Steve MacIsaac, Jon Macy, Desmond Miller, Dylan "NDR" Edwards, Sean-Z, John Hahn, Walter Meyer, Michael Dimotta, Steven Bereznai, Michael Troy to name but a few (okay, can’t count). Prism’s expanded booth meant more space for us to host LGBT creators than ever before, our way of bringing artists and writers (and editors and our gay-friendly friends) to their LGBT comics fans who, frankly, are hungry for new LGBT comics. We had so many creators presenting so many books, plus friends and supporters (like Gail Simone, Phil Jimenez, Eric Shanower and more) who kindly appeared at our booth, that there are simply too many to list in  [Continue reading...]

My third queer panel on Thursday of Comic-Con was the Prism-sponsored “Writing Queer: Creating and Writing LGBT Characters” panel moderated by Justin Hall (True Travel Tales, winner of the Queer Press Grant for Glamazonia: The Uncanny Super Tranny, and Prism’s Talent and Industry Relations Chair) who could easily have enough to talk about on his own, but was joined by some of the biggest names in both mainstream and indie comics: Gilbert Hernandez (Love and Rockets), Greg Rucka (Detective Comics), Gail Simone (Wonder Woman), Judd Winick (Pedro and Me), Paige Braddock (Jane’s World), and Howard Cruse (Stuck Rubber Baby). I mean, really. Who gets this kind of line-up? It’s pretty amazing. But these creators are very  [Continue reading...]

Continuing my Geek-O-Rama convention report, I next attended Comic-Con’s ‘”Spotlight Howard Cruse”. It was not a Prism panel, but might as well have been, as Howard is one the most acclaimed and famous LGBT comic artists ever and an icon for our organization. His Eisner and Harvey award-winning graphic novel, Stuck Rubber Baby has just been reprinted in a 15th Anniversary edition with a forward by Alison Bechdel. This year, Howard attends Comic-Con as a Special Guest of the con. Blake Bell, moderator of the spotlight, was the perfect person to interview Howard, having written a book I Have To Live With This Guy! which profiled comics professionals’ spouses including Ed Sedarbaum who is Howard’s husband. Although when Blake asked Howard to give everyone some  [Continue reading...]