Rich Boutell is the owner and opperator of the "openly gay" comic book store in San Francisco's historic Castro neighborhood called, "Whatever..." Being a gay owned and operated comic shop, the one thing we are so proud to do is support our local gay writers and artists, those whose dream it is to create new comics for us to enjoy. Knowing what it feels like for your dream to come true, we are more than excited to help them out by selling their indie comics. Update Sept MMX: We have also started our own small press publishing company called Geek 'N Out Comics. The first book to be released will be InterSections :the Dark. Written by Rich Boutell and illustrated by Gene Guilmette. The comic will debut at APE 2010 in SF.   [More...]

Kristian Navant is a writer and artist based in Denver, Colorado. Born and raised in the United States, Kristian is the the 13th and youngest of a European family. Coming of age in the night time, pop culture warzone of late 20th Century America, Kristian honed his craft while falling in love, destroying things, breaking hearts and drawing beautiful women, handsome men, gods and monsters. Against all odds, Kristian survived a dangerous and cinematic adolescence before deciding academics seemed like a fun way to spend a few years. Leaving behind a fledgling music career, well-intended promiscuity and a fondness for extreme behavior, Kristian enrolled in a private art college and as testimony to his intensity and ambition, completed an entire Bachelors of Fine Art program in just over two years, graduating Magna Cum Laude. Kristian's advertising and editorial illustration work has appeared regularly in various perdiocials, including Out Front Magazine. The work closest to  [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...]

Rio Safari is responsible for the seminal (in every sense of the word) queer comic zine, Homobody. It features scruffy doods who could care less what 'gay' is supposed to look like. The current issue, #6, is available through his website. Other issues can also be ordered at microcosmpublishing.com. He has self-published over twenty zines in the past five years and has no plans to stop soon.  [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.  [More...]

I'm a publish artist! Yeah! For a preview, link down there French Canadian from nowhere Canada with no formal education. Past employee of McDonald's restaurant. Gay erotica and experimental comics creator. Morbidly obese (450 pounds or more). Sexually impotent. Small dick (14.5 cm). 40 years old. The big evil four-O Still live with is father. Didn't have sex since 1999. Medication Paxil ( anti-depression) Xeldox ( anti-psychotic). Internet and Facebook addict. Evil genius. Ragging jealous queen with drag queen tendency. Personal enemy of Canada, of all Canadian and of all things Canadian. Machiavellian destroyer of the English Language. Censored from Facebook for the drawing of a penis. Sex, sex, sex, sex and Astro boy Cute eatable shinny thing if you want to buy the book Porno no porno With some straight stuff, sorry! http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/no-porno-porno/12035385?productTrackingContext=search_results%2Fsearch_shelf%2Fcenter%2F1   [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...]

PK Eiselt is a graduate of UC Santa Barbara’s film studies program and has more than six films to his credit, including the award-winning animated short "Genre" and the 2000 Corwin Award winning horror film "Miss Gentilbelle". He currently writes for ENI Entertainment, PK is also a regular contributor to DoorQ.com, writing articles and the humor strip: "Gayformers". PK has two original comic works due out later this year, the graphic novel, BOY, with artist Zach Enea, and Millennium Man with artist/actor Booboo Stewart.  [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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]