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...]

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. His two latest projects will hopefully be coming out very soon. The graphic novel Teleny and Camille is an 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. He lives in super funky West Oakland, California.  [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...]

Chris DeCarlo began his illustration career as a caricature artist at Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, VA. As a web site designer he has worked with cartooning legends Pat Oliphant and Jim Davis. Other illustration and web design clients include Universal Press, GE, AOL, and Sanofi-Aventis. When he is not launching web sites, Chris busies himself with his two comics, It's the Michaels and Party Chasers. Part comical romp and part soap opera romance, It’s the Michaels chronicles the lives of a group of like-named gay men who share a beach house at Fire Island. Party Chasers, Chris’s humor strip, appears quarterly in NoiZe Magazine and follows two self-absorbed party boys in their never-ending quest for instant gratification. Chris lives in New York City with his partner. They spend their weekends on Fire Island with their own group of close-knit friends. Not all of them are named  [More...]

Hey there, my first and true love in life is comics and I have grown up here on the North East coast of Maine with that being a focal point of my work. I've been creating characters and stories since I was 12, but none of that matters until I actually get the story out to you as a comic. It is my hope to get my small press publishing house Better Comics off the ground and running to your hands. I publish everything but my hope is to get gay oriented characters in stories that matter and entertain the gay community and our friends at large without being heavy handed or blatant. I'm 29 and have been published locally in Casco Bay Weekly with spot illustration and some strips. That was back in college though-- now I focus on designing album covers for local bands and posting new things on my blog www.bettercomicsinc.com while putting out new books like Two Spirit Deal and my kids book Lightning Duck! Two Spirit Deal is a comic book that delivers two stories at the same low indy  [More...]

Howard Cruse is the creator of Wendel, the 1980s comic strip about a circle of gay friends that was collected in its entirety in 2001 in a book called Wendel All Together. His 1995 graphic novel, Stuck Rubber Baby, won both Eisner and Harvey Awards in 1996, and has since won awards in England and Germany. An Italian translation of SRB has also been published and Spanish translations of both SRB and Wendel All Together are now in production. Stuck Rubber Baby's French edition won the Prix de la critique at the Angouleme comics festival in 2002. Many of Howard's underground comix were compiled more than a decade ago in the books Early Barefootz and Dancin' Nekkid With the Angels. The Swimmer With a Rope in His Teeth, Howard's illustrated adaptation of a fable by Jeanne Shaffer, was published by Prometheus Press in April of 2004. Many of his comic strips, both old and recently drawn, are archived on his extensive website, Howard  [More...]

Freelance writer Tony Smith lives in Boothwyn, Pennsylvania with his partner and their Superbeagle Molly and hasn’t had a real firm grasp on reality since he was six-years old. Even when he does get a grasp on reality, he tends to behave like a six-year-old. 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. Currently he's working on "The Exceptionals" with Michael Troy with hopes to debut the mini-series in 2010. For more information, check out: http://theexceptionals.blogspot.com/  [More...]

“If artistically you are able to do one thing, you are more than likely able to do them all.” Kay Thompson Ray Caspio has been drawing ever since he could pick up a crayon. His earliest works include illustrations of the opening theme to Bewitched, Laverne’s cursive L, and, most often (and to this date), Lynda Carter’s Wonder Woman. Thankfully, he’s improved over the years and earned an Illustration degree. Now a freelance illustrator and graphic designer, Ray frequently collaborates with illustrator and character designer Kevenn T. Smith. Ray’s clients have included The National Organization for Women (NOW), Citadel Press, Burning River Integrated, LLC, Cuyahoga Community College, The Beck Center for the Arts, The Press Club of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office, and re:Create. Ray also feels at home performing on a stage. Notable roles have included Barry Klemper in The Boys Next Door and Christopher Wren in The Mousetrap. He has studied with  [More...]