"Comics aren’t text and visuals mushed together any more than my sexuality simply combines homo- and heterosexual tendencies." Read More
This week the Lambda Literary Review honors the impact comic books and graphic novels have had on our lives.
To start off Lambda Literary Comic Book week, here's what some of today's most prominent LGBTQ graphic novelists and artists (Howard Cruse, Ellen Forney, Phil Jimenez, Rachel Pollack, and more) had to say about the comic books that have inspired them... Read More
Nationally, Portland, Oregon is known for being a rainy green city of bicyclists, 20-something hipsters, and enough log-jammed trends from...
A major step to breaking down closet doors is to provide venues for trans* people to see themselves. Edward’s graphic novel does just that; focusing on the stories of six queer transmen. Read More
Not all LGBT coming of age tales are tales of coming out. Punk raconteur, musician and artist Cristy C. Road’s...
"I am bipolar, this is me. It’s inextricable from who I am and from my creativity for that matter."
“Is mental illness a curse or is it actually a gift?” Ellen Forney explores this question with stunning vulnerability and clarity in Marbles, a graphic memoir about her struggle with bipolar disorder.
Forney agreed to sit down with Lambda and talk to about the unique challenges and rewards of writing a graphic novel, the sorry state of the mental healthcare industry, and of course, flying squirrels on the moon. Read More
An association between artistic creativity and mental illness is something many of us take for granted without questioning which came first or why the two should be linked. In her new graphic memoir, cartoonist Ellen Forney tackles that question in light of its impact on her work as an artist with Bipolar I Disorder. Read More
When a culture is repressive towards women or queers, I figure it is usually reacting against something (or someone) strong...
Somebody needed to do this: compile a knowledgeable, historical collection of queer comics. But the task was daunting in more ways than one. There’s the difficulty of curating any historical collection to include the most representative art works and artists of the era. But queer comics pose an added challenge, as many were published by underground, indie and non-mainstream publishers, or were self-published... Read More
The title of Alison Bechdel’s novel riffs off P.D. Eastman’s book Are You My Mother?, an easy-reader many babyboomers who...
