Xeric-award winner Craig McKenney writes and publishes his work through his Headless Shakespeare Press imprint. He is currently taking a sabbatical from comics to complete his PhD in Technical Communication and Rhetoric (tentatively to be completed in December 2010), but will return one day soon.  [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-edits with fellow cartoonist, the talented and effervescent David Kelly. The fifth issue, an  [More...]

I'm the author of the gay teen super hero novel Queeroes, and the not-so fictional book Gay and Single...Forever? 10 Things Every Gay Guy Looking for Love (and Not Finding It) Needs to Know (which of course has lots of little sci fi references. I like what I like :) My writing's appeared in a number of anthologies, I Like It Like That, Second Person Queer, Best Gay Love Stories 2010, and Muscle Men. I'm also a past editor of fab, Toronto's Gay Scene Magazine, and have been a professional journalist since my early 20s.  [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...]

With more than 8 years in video game development as a 2d/3d artist for companies like Acclaim, THQ, and others, Jayna has always been captivated by comics since she was a child. After completing her MFA, becoming a comic book artist and completing her own illustrated works has long been an ambition that she finally decided to stop putting off in life.  [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 will be available at www.jonmacy.com on 2/17/2010. Teleny and Camille is a 236 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. Fearful hunter is set to be released at Wondercon 4/2/2010. He lives in super funky West Oakland,  [More...]

I started drawing when I was two years old. Later I found it thrilling to sketch portraits of my babysitters. In high school I discovered that I could use my skills in Art to get good grades in other courses by writing comic books in English as well as painting diagrams for Science class. It was then that I knew for sure I wanted art to be my lifetime career. I began my journey in the screen-printing business. I went to college to improve my skills. Computers came to be a big part of everyone's lives and I was no exception. Diving in headfirst, I trained myself to use HTML and started designing websites using only a program known to many as Notepad. As computers became increasingly more complex I took an interest in CGI and 3-D modeling. I earned myself a degree in computer science where I learned how to write programming code. My latest mission has been in advertising and designing physical displays. During that time I transformed myself by coming out of my cocoon. Some people fear  [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 is currently working on a graphic book for Beacon Press, to be published in 2011. It is a non-fiction work profiling events in the lives of queer-identified FTMs and genderqueers. The book is not yet titled. His other comics work includes Politically InQueerect, a satirical look at the lives of a gay Republican couple and their friends; The Outfield, a comic about queers in sports that was published on OutSports.com from 2002-2009; and an editorial cartoon focusing on queer issues that ran in the Texas Triangle and TXT Newsmagazine from 2004-2005. All of these comics may be found on studiondr.com. 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  [More...]

Hi, I’m AKNATON, (A. Carrasco) a chilean artist. I was born in 1975. Now I live in Santiago were I studied graphic design and design of internet pages. I’m working with Chuck McKinney on his webcomic From the Cellar, and I've published some of my work in Spain (comic novel). I love the movies, playing piano, writing songs, meeting new friends, and, obviously, drawing, painting and all about the comics. Hola amigos, yo soy AKNATON, (A. Carrasco) un artista chileno. Nací en Linares, una pequeña ciudad del sur de mi país, en 1975 (Acuario). Ahora vivo en Santiago, donde estudié Diseño Gráfico y Diseño de Páginas Web. He trabajado con Chuck Mckinney en su webcomic From the Cellar, También he publicado algo de mi trabajo en España (Comic Novel). Me encanta el cine, tocar piano, escribir canciones, juntarme con mis amigos y conocer otros nuevos, y por supuesto, dibujar, pintar y todo lo relacionado con el comics.   [More...]

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...]

Pam Harrison has worked nearly 20 years in the graphic design industry, starting from the ground up and learning a number of skills from advertising, graphics and website design, Illustrator and has more recently been noted for 3D illustration. In June 2008, she taught night classes in 3DStudio Max at her former college, Louisville Technical Institute. From 2005-2006, Pam was a regular face on the OutinAmerica.com Cities Network, where she first made her name in gay and lesbian movie and book reviews, as well as landing her own weekly opinion column, "Speaking Of". An aspiring comics artist since age 12, she eventually learned 3-D graphics, which became the basis for the illustrations in the published version of House of the Muses. Her connections at OIA soon landed her very first book review of House of the Muses in October 2007. ****************************************** Here is what some readers of House of the Muses have to say about the series: "This is a series NOT to be  [More...]

Kazuhide Ichikawa (KAZ) is a Japanese gay manga artist. His style ranges from young athlete to chubby Japanese middle-aged "salary-man" (businessperson). KAZ's manga has appeared in several Japanese gay magazines such as G-men, SM-Z, G-BLESS and Badi. His published books include Natsu-No-Kappa (The Summer with My Water Elf), Otoko-Gi (Macho!), and Kachiiro-No-Koi (Love as Samurai). Two or three more books are coming in 2010. Published games include Inma-21-Sei (Incubus the 21st) and published digital illustration include "Inko-Kinro-Seinen 01" and "Inko-Kinro-Seinen 02".  [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...]

A woman of many hats, Mari Morimoto, DVM, is a queer-identified big city veterinarian by day, freelance manga translator by night, and a panelist, industry guest, and interpreter at several northeast anime and manga conventions throughout the year. She got her foot in the door with VIZ Media through luck and circumstance 15 years ago, and since then has been blessed with the opportunity to work on many of VIZ's top titles, including Dragonball, Inuyasha, and Naruto, plus Kairi Fujiyama's Dragon Eye for Del Rey Manga. In addition, she has contributed articles to the English Shonen Jump and Chopsticks a local free monthly Japanese culture magazine, and was a research assistant on Jason Thompson's Manga: The Complete Guide. She has been interviewed by the free weekly Japanese-language newspaper NY Japion!, Cornell's alumni magazine, Curve magazine, and The Advocate. Finally, Mari has spoken  [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. Ed and Oaf were recently nominated for a 2009 Ignatz Award in the "Promising New Talent" category. Currently the star of his own ongoing series (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, 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. In May 2009, the flagship "Wuvable Oaf Boutique" (featuring all manner of  [More...]

Jeff Krell created the groundbreaking comic strip Jayson, which debuted in the Philadelphia Gay News in 1983. By 1985 Jayson had achieved national prominence in Gay Comix, where the strip was named Most Popular Feature. Jayson then became a staple in Leyland Publications' Meatmen series of gay male comics anthologies, gracing nearly twenty volumes. In 1990 Jayson debuted in national syndication. Krell collaborated with singer/songwriters Ron Romanovsky and Paul Phillips to produce an off-Broadway Jayson musical at The 45th Street Theatre, which The New York Times praised for its "tart, keenly observed humor." The show ran for 10 weeks in the summer of 1998. Krell's first collection of Jayson cartoons, Jayson: A New Collection (1997), contained all of the stories that inspired the musical. In 2005 Krell published two well received retrospectives, Jayson: Best of the 80s and Jayson: Best of the  [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!  [More...]

Rhys-Michael Silverlocke was born on the cusp of libra and some other horoscopic sign—the name of which temporarily escapes memory. (Thank god that "astrology" is complete and utter rubbish or Mr. Silverlocke might have suffered a bizarre concatenation of celestial eventualities. Thank astrology that "god" is also complete and utter rubbish. Astrology and religions are just nice opportunities for people to say pretentious and superficial things like "Oh I would never eat sushi with someone who wasn't born in the year of the Rat".) When not speaking parenthetically or italically, Mr. Silverlocke is probably speaking pedantically, or possibly inaudibly and entirely for his own amusement. In any case, the operative concept is that he rarely stops speaking; when he gets a few hundred thousand words left over that no one in the immediate area desires hearing then he generally sets them down into novel form. The topics and styles of his writing are too variegated to outline  [More...]

My name is Martin Ramos, but I've always been known as Chino. I was born and raised in Brooklyn, the thirteenth of my mom's thirteen children. As a child I enjoyed drawing characters I knew from Saturday morning cartoons, and I was always singing. I love to sing! I even sang in a boy band for several years. By me teen years, I wasn't drawing anymore, but I never stopped loving animation. I've seen all the animated movies out there and I live for Family Guy and Avatar. I wasn't exposed to comics until I met my boyfriend Chuck in 2005. He loves comics and even has his own web-comic, From The Cellar. He's always showing me comics. I started reading some and before I knew it, I was drawing again. Chuck saw my stuff and liked it. He gave me an episode of his comic to draw. That went well and I continue to draw episodes of From The Cellar with Chuck coloring my work. Colaborating with Chuck is great and I love illustrating. I'm taking classes at the  [More...]

I've been a comic book fan since seventh grade. I became a cartoonist by accident. I studied acting with the great Fred Kareman, and I worked quite a bit over the past 10 years or so. I even wrote 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. 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 thank them enough. I plan to publish the Graphic Novel, but I gotta finish it first; it just won't end. My boyfriend, Chino, handles most the art now, and I color his work. I've been able to draw a couple episodes, but I'm happy to leave that to better  [More...]