Calling all gay cartoonists…

Are there any other gay cartoonists left out there? Where are they?

Alison Bechdel isn’t publishing Dykes To Watch Out For anymore. Her strip was one of the more consistently funny - stereotyping people the right way and usually packed with background jokes and self-effacing humor. She self-published, and had contracts with gay newspapers on her own. She quit the bi-weekly biz last year.

Is Ethan Green still publishing? His site’s kind of old and dead, and other than one recent short series here he’s not apparently publishing online or in any periodical I can find. His more recent stuff got boring, I liked his earlier stuff… it was more complicated, interesting, and he seemed to take a lot longer putting his strips together.

Bitter Girl has been published for a long time, and under the auspice of Q Syndicate for awhile (who I work for) but I almost never find the strip funny, and I even exercised the tiniest amount of editorial discretion that I do have at the paper to bounce a recent strip for being too offensive to Detroiters :P

A Couple of Guys (site dead? not responding) is also still being published by Q Syndicate, and he’s funny on and off, but pretty ‘genre’. Most of the characters are beautiful and successful. Carries a few storylines from week to week - a recent one is the bisexual brother of one of the main characters going through an Exodus-style “ex-gay ministry.”

Chelsea Boys is also no longer being published. It had a fun visual style, and a lot of catty gayboy humor that worked pretty well. Guess they got tired of the schedule and decided that publishing it in book form was more profitable.

Any other gay-themed print cartoonists out there? Is everything just becoming a webcomic these days? Are there any gay webcomics you read or recommend?

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