Bio: 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 Super Tranny" has been hard at work making Prism Comics: Your LGBT Guide to Comics more fabulous for several years now. Hall also produces the gay porn comic Hard To Swallow with fellow cartoonist Dave Davenport, which can be seen at its website.

Hall has exhibited his fine art and comics work in L.A., New York, and San Francisco. He was the focus of a "Small Press Spotlight" show at the San Francisco Cartoon Art Museum, where he also curated "No Straight Lines: Queer Culture and the Comics", the world’s first museum show of queer cartooning. Hall also moderates the annual Queer Cartoonists Panel at the Alternative Press Expo (APE), and is on the boards of Siewphewyeng (or "Our Books", a non-profit supporting Cambodian and Khmer-language comics), and Folsom Street Events, running the Folsom Street Fair’s Artists’ Area.

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A Sacred Text
Book of Boy Trouble
Houghton Miflin Best American Comics 2006
Juicy Mother 2
Stripped
True Porn 2

RECENT PRISM COMICS FEATURES

JUSTIN HALL’S NO STRAIGHT LINES NOMINATED FOR EISNER AWARD!
[News, Posted 4/21/13]
San Diego, CA – The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards Nominees for 2013 have been announced and No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics, edited by Justin Hall and published by Fantagraphics, was nominated as Best Anthology. Justin Hall, who has been a long-serving board member of Prism Comics which promotes LGBT comics and creators, compiled a comprehensive and exhaustive survey of queer comics, starting from the pioneers of the genre and continuing through the decades…

DYLAN EDWARDS’ TRANSPOSES, ALISON BECHDEL’S ARE YOU MY MOTHER? A COMIC DRAMA, AND JUSTIN HALL'S NO STRAIGHT LINES: FOUR DECADES OF QUEER COMICS NOMINATED FOR LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS!
[News, Posted 3/6/13]
Today, it was announced that Dylan Edwards' nonfiction graphic novel Transposes, which explores the life stories of seven transgender men who also happen to be gay, bisexual, or otherwise non-straight—has been honored with a nomination for a Lambda Literary Award in the category of Transgender Nonfiction. Transposes is an amazing window into the lives of these men, both the major events in their lives and the day-to-day ones, and paints a wonderfully human portrait. The book…

PRISM ANNOUNCES RECIPIENTS FOR 2012 QUEER PRESS GRANT! IT’S A TIE BETWEEN BLUE DELLIQUANTI AND CHRISTINE SMITH!
[News, Posted 10/17/12]
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — At the Alternative Press Expo (APE), Prism Comics announced the recipients of the 2012 Queer Press Grant (QPG) on October 13th during the Queer Cartoonists Panel moderated by Justin Hall. For this year's recipients, it's a tie between Blue Delliquanti for O Human Star and Christine Smith for The Princess. Prism Comics, which supports LGBT comics, creators and readers, established the Queer Press Grant in 2005 to encourage the publication of LGBT-themed…

PRISM GOES APE IN SAN FRANCISCO THIS WEEKEND OCT 13-14! QUEER PRESS GRANT TO BE ANNOUNCED!
[News, Posted 10/9/12]
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Prism Comics will appear this weekend at the Alternative Comics Expo (APE) in San Francisco, on Saturday, October 13 (11am-7pm) and Sunday, October 14 (11am-6pm). Along with tabling at the convention, Prism’s own Justin Hall (No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics) is once again moderating his Queer Cartoonists Panel. Prism’s table is #801. Come by for the latest in queer comics and meet your favorite queer creators. Close by and spread throughout the…

PRISM COMICS' QUEER PRESS GRANT 2012 IS ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS! DEADLINE IS OCTOBER 1ST!
[News, Posted 8/10/12]
Prism Comics is accepting submissions for this year’s Queer Press Grant (QPG)! The QPG is the only grant today that is specifically awarded to independent comic book creators. The grant was established by Prism to assist in the publication and promotion of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) comics. "The Queer Press Grant is a significant resource to help promote LGBT themes in independent comics, and to support up-and-coming cartoonists bringing their projects into the world. Every…

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QUEER COMICS
[Source: Arnold Zwicky, Added: 1/26/12]
Now playing at the San Francisco Cartoon Art Museum (655 Mission St.), under the auspices of the California College of the Arts, a show (which opened December 17th) on queer comics — a combination...

QUEER COMIC ARTISTS ENGAGE A "NEW" WRITING GENRE
[Source: California College of the Arts, Added: 1/26/12]
CCA is no stranger to branching out in various genres when it comes to the arts. The colleges undergraduate Writing and Literature curriculum is no exception. The ENGAGE: Queer Comics Project courses...

INTERVIEW: JUSTIN HALL (GLAMAZONIA)
[Source: IMRU, Added: 12/26/11]
Interview with Justin Hall, creator of Glamazonia: The Uncanny Super-Tranny.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA SCENE REPORT
[Source: The Comics Journal, Added: 12/10/11]
Recapping Ed Luce's comics creation classes at Isotope, Jon Macy, Justin Hall and others appearing at LitQuake events, and more…

THE "PUBLISHING QUEER" PANEL AT BENTCON 2011
[Source: I'm Here. I'm Queer. What the Hell do I read?, Added: 12/9/11]
For the second year, BentCon (held this past weekend) was a Comics Convention that's ALL about queer comics, and they reprised one of the most amazing panels from this year's ComicCon, I had the...