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Comics and Graphic Novels

Image Comics Reveals Pride Covers

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Walking Dead Pride Cover

Image Comics is marking Pride month with special edition covers of comics to “celebrate the LGBTQ community and the progress made by the Gay Liberation Movement in promoting inclusivity and support for all.” All of the proceeds made from the June Pride variant covers will be donated to Human Rights Campaign. Image Comics revealed the first six of eleven variants, including a cover of “The Walking Dead” that shows the Jesus character impaling a zombie with the Pride flag, which has to be a first. By Jeff Taylor – Full Story at LGBTQ Nation

HISTORY: Comic Book Authority Kept Gays Out Of Comics

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X-Men Wedding

A nonprofit organization ominously operating under the monicker the Comics Code Authority was responsible for preventing openly LGBT characters from appearing in comic books until the late 1980s, according to a report on History.com by comic book historian Alan Kistler. From 1954 to 1989, the Code, as Kistler calls it, enforced rules against portraying LGBT characters in comic books, Kistler wrote. Likened to the MPAA, the Code Authority had no governmental authority, but retailers were very hesitant to carry comics that lacked the Code’s seal of approval. The Code came about after psychiatrist Dr. Frederic Wertham published his book “Seduction … Read more

COMICS: Black Panther Film Erases Lesbian Relationship

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Black Panther

Marvel has moved to quash speculation that two warriors in the upcoming film Black Panther will be in a lesbian relationship. The film, due to be released in February 2018, is about T’Challa, the superhero king and protector of African nation Wakanda, who featured in Captain America: Civil War. Fans had been excited by the prospect of Okoye and Ayo, two of the titular character’s bodyguards, getting together as Ayo and fellow female warrior Aneka do in the comics. And these hopes were encouraged by reports that an early screening of the film featured Walking Dead star Danai Gurira’s Okoye … Read more

COMICS: Marvel’s New Queer Superhero

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America Chavez

Marvel has launched a kick-ass LGBT superhero to lead her own comic book – and fans are applauding the move. America Chavez, a queer Latina teenager with lesbian parents, debuted in comic books in 2011, but with the character winning rave reviews as part of a group, she has taken the spotlight for herself. The comic, called America, debuted earlier this month, prompting an outpouring of support from readers who were overjoyed to finally see an LGBT Latina superhero lead her own comic. Writer Gabby Rivera, herself a queer Latina, said Chavez is “a foxy, badass, hard femme Latina who … Read more

FILM: Wonder Woman Trailer

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Wonder Woman - Gal Gadot

“I am Diana of Themyscira, daughter of Hippolyta. In the name of all that is good, your wrath upon this world is over,” Gal Gadot triumphantly declares in the latest Wonder Woman trailer, which she first shared on Twitter following her and costar Chris Pine’s appearance Saturday night on Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards. After promising on Friday an “even bigger surprise” than the stunning poster, the new footage turned out to be a spine-tingling look at the character’s first ever feature-length film. Full Story at Joe.My.God

REVIEW: Logan

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Logan

LOGAN, the latest and last (for now) solo Wolverine movie, was not kidding around when it opted for Johnny Cash’s “Hurt” as its trailer music. It’s not just the severity of the title, but the elegiac lyrics, and the dying man as guiding spirit / inspiration. Some trailers lie but this one spoke world-weary truth. This is exactly the kind of movie James Mangold, who also directed the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line, delivers. Wolverine’s mutation were never those iconic claws, which were a science experiment to weaponize him, but his ability to instantly heal which also slows down his aging … Read more

Interview: Beckah and Jill – Magical Boy Basil

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Magical Boy Basil

Last week on M3, a new face stopped by the group – Jill of the comic book writing duo Beckah and Jill. They write Magical Boy Basil, a free webcomic about a group of magical teens. It’s adorable. They also have a Kickstarter to help them put out a print edition of the comic with some great rewards. Thanks, guys, for stopping by for the interview! I’m so glad you guys stumbled upon us on Queer Sci Fi – how did you find the group? JILL: Well, it turns out that Angel Martinez and I will be on a panel … Read more

Shocker: Snagglepuss is Gay!

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Snagglepuss

Snagglepuss is to be reinvented by DC Comics as a ‘gay, Southern, Gothic playwright’. Flinstones writer Mark Russell, who turned the old Hanna-Barbera caveman comedy into a realistic and adult form – including with an introduction to readers to the ‘gay uncle‘ theory to how LGBTI people evolved. But now the fey pink mountain lion is going to get the same treatment, and it’s going to be taking place during the McCarthy era of when America was obsessed with catching communists. ‘It was not much of a stretch at all,’ Russell told HiLoBrow. By Joe Morgan – Full Story at … Read more