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Laura Sackton is a gay book nerd and freelance writer, known on the internet for loving winter, despising summer, and going overboard with extravagant baking projects. In addition to her work at Manual Riot, she reviews for BookPage and AudioFile, and writes a weekly newsletter, Books & Bakes, celebrating queer lit and tasty treats. You can grab her on Instagram shouting about the queer books she loves and sharing photos of the walks she takes in the hills of Western Mass (while listening to audiobooks, of course).
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The society of queer webcomics is a truly vast and wonderful world. Im fully convinced that if you can dream it up, theres a webcomic about it. Gays in cosmos, check. Fantasy romance, review. Time travel, check. Queers bringing down corrupt governments, check. But those tropes and themes are just the beginning. While making this list, I fell down many a rabbit hole into so many strange, fascinating, and innovative worlds. The comics Ive collected here are just a small sample of the vast queer imagination that exist
Good BL comic recommendation
Comics first!
This one is fluffy and sweet:
The One Who Loved You From Behind | Tapas
______ Wren Long is the very definition of 'rebellious teen' with his hazardous habits of picking fights and causing havoc wherever he goes. However, he only seems to listen to his adamant 'online'-girlfriend, Eda, that he met months ago but have
This one is spicy and fun:Aimatos | Tapas
Boy meet teen and together search their origins
This is based on the artist's true story with his boyfriend and it gives me life:Bright memories | Tapas
Read it from the left to right:) I decided to start my own comic named ''Bright memories'' it's about my relationship with my boyfriend Ryo. I ponder our story is very unique and I wanted to share some of our moments. Thank you for your
The novels I think might be more your speed:
Violent AF but oddly compelling:The Bully and I | Tapas
WARNING: This story contains explicit content. Contains men to men relationship. Many people hold asked me why I'm in love with Hiro Blaise and every age they do, I couldn't think of one excellent reason why I fell for him. Hiro Blaise was not an
(this one is mine but I genuinely20 Essential Gender non-conforming Comics from the Past Five Years
MariNaomi is an Eisner Award–nominated and SPACE Award–winning cartoonist and the founder and administrator of the Cartoonists of Color, Homosexual Cartoonists, and Disabled Cartoonists databases. Their graphic novelLosing the Girl was among those banned in the Katy, Tex., school district in In May, Fieldmouse Press will publish their ninth book, the graphic memoirI Thought You Loved Me.
These books include a variety of subjects, themes, moods, and styles, all queer books by queer authors. I’ve mixed it up in decree to give an concept of how diverse homosexual comics can be, through my particular lens—my tastes skew toward mature personal narratives and indie artwork. It is in no way a complete list, just a taste.
1. Inky Men by Ajuan Mance (Stacked Deck)
Mance’s book is a love letter to the Black men she deems as often overlooked by traditional media. Sometimes stories or poems accompany the portraits, sometimes the images speak for themselves.
2. Are You Listening? by Tillie Walden (First Second)
This dreamlike graphic novel, put in a magical versio
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