JD is the lead singer/guitar of The Charm Alarm; author of Punk Like Me, Punk And Zen, Red Light, American Goth, and X, contributor to Outsiders (Triskellion) & Yuri Monogatari 6 (Sakura Gun [London]). Future? Tin Can Knights, I Am the GUN, The Gabriel. JD doesn't sleep - she dreams.  [More...]

Charles "Zan" Christensen is the Publisher of Northwest Press, a publishing imprint devoted to providing the highest-quality lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender graphic novels and comics collections. Northwest's first published book was Jon Macy's Teleny and Camille, a graphic novel adaptation of the anonymous Victorian erotic novel Teleny, attributed to Oscar Wilde and his circle of poets and writers. The book debuted at the 2010 Comic-Con International in San Diego. Zan is also a comics writer, currently co-creating the series The Mark of Aeacus for Class Comics and Northwest Press. The second issue of MoA, jointly published by the two companies, debuted at the 2010 Comic-Con as well. In 2003, Zan was also the founding President of Prism Comics, which was formed when a group of gay comics fans and professionals got together and decided to take their passion for the medium and work to level the playing field for other queer comics creators. In its short  [More...]

Most of my work has focused on the sexual antics and emotional entangles of the Boy Sluts of America. The BSA is a parody of the Boy Scouts; just more fun and without the homophobia. True Boy Sluts Adventures, volume 1, will be published in time for ComicCon in San Diego, 2010. I got interested in drawing comics through reading Japanese manga and watching anime. That lead me to Yaoi comics on the web in 1998. I led the (in)famous "Girls Wanna Know" panels at the first four YaoiCon conventions, where I also sold "Seme" and "Uke" T-shirts. Those shirts were subsequently licensed for sale by others in Japan and North America. My first comic, H&H (Heaven and Hell) was published in the YaoiCon anthology 2002, and the first Boy Sluts comic was published in Shonen, An American Yaoi Anthology in '03. I live and work in Oakland, CA, where I reside with my boyfriend Paul and our dog, chickens, and a duck.  [More...]

Ed Luce's first comic book project, Wuvable Oaf, is a "fairy" tale chronicling one big, scary lookin' dude's search for romance in a city that looks suspiciously like San Francisco. Issue #2 is out right now, available at wuvableoaf.com and in the Prism Shop! Wuvable Oaf has also made appearances in Prism Comics: Your Guide to Comics 2008 and 2009/2010 editions, 100% BEEF magazine, BEAR Magazine, Pride Magazine '09, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, The Book of Boy Trouble 2, UK's Gay Times magazine, Italy's PISSZINE, Instinct magazine, and White Crane Journal. He can also be fleetingly glimpsed on the chests of hunky dudes n' sassy lasses all over the world, in the form of his very own t-shirts. Recently, Ed and Oaf had the very great honor of being named co-recipient of Prism Comics 2010 Queer Press Grant (thanks guys)! They have also been nominated for a 2009 Ignatz Award in the  [More...]

Jon's first comic book series was Tropo published by Blackbird comics. It was followed by the erotic horror comic series Nefarismo from Eros/Fantagraphics. Since then he has done some long running series in Gay skin magazines such as Steam, Wilde, Bunkhouse and International Leatherman. His work appeared in the anthologies Gay Comix, Negative Burn and, of course, Meatmen. If you don't blink you will also see his illustrations in the first Fallen Angel by Titan Media. Jon's graphic novel Teleny and Camille is now published by Northwest Press. Teleny and Camille is a 248 page black and white adaptation of the anonymous Victorian novel Teleny attributed to Oscar Wilde and his circle. Jon's new series Fearful Hunter is a Gay romance set in a fantasy world of Druids and werewolves. Issue one of four is out now. He lives in super funky West Oakland, California.  [More...]

I’m a multi-faceted freelance artist in the San Francisco bay area. I’ve been drawing since I was knee high to grasshopper and to this day I look for fun and challenging projects to fill my studio with. I believe in quality and I have a high standard that I set for my projects, both personal and professional. Above all I want to make sure my clients are happy with their final piece as much as I am. My work covers a wide range of mediums, styles and subject matter. I can go from cartooning to photorealism, from pencil to acrylic to digital. I do gravitate more to sci-fi, fantasy and comic art but again I’ve a broad range and I’m just as happy with portraits and landscapes. My project experience covers such things as: logos, concept art, painting (traditional and digital), illustration & drawing, game design, graphic design, club advertisement, posters, fliers and website design, implementation and updating. Additionally I’ve worked as a faux finisher  [More...]

Hushicho is a creator, both artist and writer, best-known for his art nouveau flourishes and his sensual style. His adult-oriented comic Incubus Tales enjoys a worldwide readership and has been running since 2007. He got his start editing romance novels and moved on to writing articles and columns, occasionally adding his own art. Working for many years with creators all over the world, he honed the unique style that is now identified with him. Japanese underground and small-press comics, or doujinshi, and their like, are most exciting to him. The Japanese underground comic presence is stronger than perhaps anywhere else in the whole world. He continues to work with Japanese anthology groups. He works to bring legitimacy to comics, especially mature-oriented comics, as an art form -- sequential art -- and to promote GLBT creators with Prism Comics, as well as to assist wildlife issues with Defenders of Wildlife. In his spare time he enjoys singing and cooking Indian food.   [More...]

Gay American artist of Asian decent looking to make a mark in the world. Have a big interest in comic books, comic strips, animation and writing. Been drawing since I was a wee tyke but I have also written (but not published) a novel—campy, romantic, gay fiction - it is finished in the sense that the story is no longer moving forward but I know I need to do more revisions - I imagine they'll tell me: 'It needs more sex!' My current project is Little Rainbow Comics — a comic strip about three kids growing up gay in elementary school. Check it out! (Hope to Relaunch Tonight) Lots of new greeting cards approved and a few new qay themed shirts - thanks!  [More...]

Tony contributed four stories and edited the inaugural issue of Queerbait, an LGBT comic book anthology featuring a diverse collection of stories by comics’ next generation of writers and artists. He has also written comic book stories for Prism Comics, CBG Comics, Fan-Atic Press, Pride Comics and Twisted Gate Entertainment. His latest project is the anthology, Gay Terror #1, which is available at http://heroscribecomics.com/e-comics/  [More...]

Kenne Morrison is the writer of Night Patrol, a comic about a pair of detectives in the San Francisco Police Department who are also fairies. They're assignment is to investigate all fairy-related crimes in a world where fairies and human interact on a daily basis. Kenne spent most of his childhood reading comics and dreaming that one day he could become a comic writer. With publication of the Night Patrol Ashcan and the upcoming Night Patrol #0, he is excited to see his dream become a reality. Kenne grew up in the deep south where he was fully aware that being gay was unacceptable. Now it is his mission to take the lessons he's learned and use them to educate others that no matter what narrow-minded or people who are afraid to go against tradition think, it really is okay to be who you are and that you will only be happy once you accept the way you are and love yourself for it. When not writing Night Patrol, Kenne spends time writing reviews for Prism  [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...]

ARTIST, ANARCHIST SUPERSTAR & CARTOON TERRORIST San Francisco based artist… Comic terrorist hell bent on sticking up for what's right and putting up a fight against evil double standards. René's questionably sane characters Hedgehog Boy, Frank the Bear and Flower Diamond are saving the universe daily! René Carol Capone (b. September 22, 1978) is an American painter known for his depiction of whimsical, homosexual, and erotic themes; often used together. His work has drawn global notice. Capone was born in Niskayuna, New York one of four children to Linda Capone and is of no relation to mobster Al Capone. He attended the Parsons School of Design in Manhattan, New York City. Upon completion in 2000, he moved to San Francisco where he currently resides. In 2004, GlaxoSmithKline became his first corporate collector. Private collectors of Capone's work can be found in the United States of America, Canada, Sweden, England, France, Japan, and the Netherlands. His original work sells  [More...]

Robert Kirby is a Detroit native, now living in Minneapolis with another boy and a dog. He began his cartooning career in the early 90s contributing to dozens of queer zine titles like Holy Titclamps, and his comic strip, "Curbside", first appeared in the gay and alternative presses in 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. Robert ended the strip in 2008 to concentrate on new projects. Robert is the founder of the gay boy comics anthology Boy Trouble which he co-edited with fellow cartoonist, the talented and effervescent David Kelly. The fifth issue, an  [More...]

Since 2001 I've created, as a freelance illustrator, artwork for various books, magazines, board- and web games. I work for several gay magazines and websites, both in Europe and the US. Most of my gay artwork is for illustrating magazine articles, often with serious topics. On the cheeky side I like to draw up gay cartoons with an erotic undertone. Of course I work for lots of non-gay publishers too. But if I can, I like to focus on gay artwork. I'm an engineer by training, but later on in life discovered I like illustration too much, so I decided to make it my goal to becoming a well known, established artist. My studio is in the Netherlands, as is my boyfriend and most of my clients, but I like to work for international clients as well. I speak Dutch, English and German. My other passion in life is flying, I live near a small airfield with a local flying club. If you visit me, I might take you for a little flight :)  [More...]

Andy Swist is an illustrator/ graphic designer living in Brooklyn, New York. Andy has a versatile style, allowing him the pleasure to work in a variety of industries ranging from fashion to comics. His work has been featured in the anthology Young Bottoms in Love (Poison Press) as well as past issues of Prism Comics: Your LGBT Guide to Comics. "Foxy Andy" was created as a venue to share his more sexually charged work. In early 2009 he completed and self published his first gay erotic comic, "Second Chances" written by Dale Lazarov. Foxy Andy has been included in gallery shows, nightclubs, and various adult publications, including Stripped Uncensored by Gmunder. In late 2009, Andy launched a series of paper dolls and artwork related to the HBO series True Blood out of his fandom for the show and was included in the book Truly, Madly, Deadly: The Unofficial True Blood Companion. In April 2010 Andy launched a website dedicated to horror comics and  [More...]

Hiya, My name is Cody Rishell and I'm an illustrator and graphic designer working out of San Francisco. Comics are my passion, and I have a pretty cool webcomic called Stuff Comics, which can be found at (are you sitting down?) www.stuffcomics.com. There's a new short story every few months and it's updated every Tuesday, so come on by and check it out! The short story that's going through the summer and into the fall is called A Land of Rock and Dust and it's about an astronomer who falls in love with Mars (the planet) as well as the Red Planets last inhabitant. Who do their lives intertwine with one another? I can't tell you that... but what I CAN ask you is that you read it and find out for yourself! ~C  [More...]

I started drawing my first comic, Nitsy and Bitsy after the comic that used to run in Gab magazine stopped. I thought that I could come up with something, I drew four comics, and Gab accepted them and drew more. At that time I also found Robert Kirby's Boy Trouble and started looking for other comics of that nature. My first comic book was Glitch, a gay romantic comic, often described as a Gay Hate, which is not to far off the mark, since I was reading Hate at the time. I drew 3 issues of the comic, when I got a day job as a graphic designer, which was a lot of work, and I was less inclined to draw all night after working. Ten years later, with the encouragement of Tim Fish, I drew a comic for his online comic, Young Bottoms in Love. I started drawing more comics after that, often short stories, based on whatever I wanted to write about. I went back to self publishing my own books, this time with several years of experience from working in  [More...]

Erika Moen is a full time cartoonist operating out of Periscope Studio in Portland, OR. She identifies as queer and is very happily married to her British husband, Matthew Nolan. She has appeared in many published anthologies, including Flight: Volume One, Best Erotic Comics 2008, Best Erotic Comics 2009, True Porn: Volume Two and many more. She has self-published several books, DAR: A Super Girly Top Secret Comic Diary, Volume One and Volume Two and Drawn to You with fellow queer cartoonist Lucy Knisley.   [More...]

Dale Lazarov is best known as the writer/editor of NIGHTLIFE, drawn by Bastian Jonsson, MANLY, drawn by Amy Colburn, and STICKY, drawn by Steve MacIsaac, both published by German art book publisher Bruno Gmünder Verlag. His collaboration with erotic artist Drubskin, "The Welcome Back Fuck", was featured in Best Gay Erotica 2007. Besides NIGHTLIFE, STICKY and MANLY, Dale's busy collaborating with illustrators on several forthcoming titles of gay erotic comics: with David Dembowski on GOOD SPORTS, Laura "Zel" Carboni on FAST FRIENDS, Chas Hunter on BULLDOGS, Bastian Jonsson on NIGHTLIFE 2, with Delic Van Loond on FANCY, Foxy Andy on CHUMS, and Mioki on POWER POP BOYS. Dale's dream is to be the Stan Lee of a line of chic hardcovers of man-on-man erotic comics full of carnality and sweetness. Dale currently lives and works in Chicago.  [More...]

Sina Grace’s parents had big plans for their son: Ivy League schooling, professional credentials, a 6-figure income as a doctor—the works! Fortunately for us, he found the wonderful world of comics instead. It was in this world of contradictions that he “matured,” one foot teetering on the edge of academia, the other drawn to the inescapable grasp of an ink-bound fantasy underworld. At 14, Grace seemingly appeased his parents by interning at Top Cow Productions, under the guidance of Editor-in-Chief Renae Geerlings (his single mother figured at least he was collecting college credit). However the only thing he was collecting (other than comics), was the compulsive habit of drawing unrealistically proportioned, scantily clad women. At 16, he got a perpetual summer-time job at the Santa Monica landmark: Hi De Ho Comics, where he would be inspired to create Books with Pictures. By 17 he wrote, drew, and self-published his first comic, The Roller-Derby Robo-Dykes versus  [More...]

San Francisco Bay Area native Brent Calderwood is best known for his writing, editing and journalism, but he began his career in 1992 as a queer youth activist, cartoonist/illustrator, and editor of the queer youth magazine insideOUT. In 1993, while he was still a senior at Livermore High School, Calderwood wrote and illustrated a two-page cartoon of his coming-out story, "Memoirs from a Closet," at the request of Pacific News Service with editorial advice from author Richard Rodriguez. The piece, which appeared in the Oakland Tribune and the San Francisco Independent as part of the teen magazine Youth Outlook! (YO!), received accolades from GLAAD and is still used as an educational tool in classrooms. Calderwood's illustrations have also appeared in the San Francisco Examiner and the youth writing anthology Through Our Eyes. In 1994, Calderwood designed the poster for a queer youth employment campaign sponsored by the San Francisco Unified  [More...]