Comics Come Out

July 18, 2012 10:58 AM

Cartoonist Justin Hall is about to release No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics, a book celebrating and showcasing the work of queer cartoonists, including Trina Robbins, Alison Bechdel, and Joey Alison Sayers. A 36-page excerpt can be downloaded here (pdf, 3.6 mb).

No Straight Lines is broken into three sections:
Comix come out: Gay gag strips, underground comix, and lesbian literati
Comix to comics, punk zines, and art during the plague
A New Millenium: Trans creators, webcomics, and stepping out of the ghetto

You may also be interested in the material at No Straight Lines, a tumblr associated with a course on queer comics at the California College of the Arts. This includes interviews and links to queer comics.

posted by ChuraChura (7 comments total)

COOL. Thank you for sharing.
posted by dlugoczaj at 11:31 AM on July 18, 2012

Not the links.net Justin Hall?
posted by Rash at 11:53 AM on July 18, 2012 [1 favorite]

Awesome. I am loving this.
posted by capnsue at 1:06 PM on July 18, 2012

Oo, excitement!
posted by Sidhedevil at 1:22 PM on July 18, 2012

Came for Diane DiMassa, leaving feelin' as happy as Chicken.
posted by ApathyGirl at 1:31 PM on July 18, 2012 [1 favorite]

I purchased a copy of the book from Justin at CAKE in Chicago and indeed, it IS awesome!!!
posted by kuppajava at 4:12 PM on July 18, 2012

No not THAT Justin Hall. I just had a mini 1996-gasm.
posted by humboldt32 at 4:14 PM on July 18, 2012