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Action-packed, hilarious, and featuring stunning artwork, Cosmoknightsis gripping from beginning to end. It introduced the openly gay character, Andy Lippincott, in 1976. Gender Queer

Delving into the comic with the knowledge that it has become one of the most banned books of our time, we were expecting quite the scandal.

We couldn’t have been more wrong.

So, when Ryuuji is left with the difficult challenge of raising his son alone, Hanao steps in to help. As it grew in popularity, Oseman decided to self-publish the tale into physical copies…and the rest is herstory.

Heartstopper has won praise for not only celebrating gay youth but by representing bisexuality and trans identities in a positive light.

So, if we’re without connection on a train or plane, we still have our delicious stash of gay comics to turn into. Whilst it followed the tired ole “bury your gays” trope, it was so important because it was the first comic to bring the reader’s attention to the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic that was ravaging the queer community at the time.

The storyline even led to a Pulitzer Prize for the creator Garry Trudeau!

Luckily today, we have many gay comics that don’t paint the queer experience as a massive tragedy, with comics like Heartstopper and Grease Bats celebrating the many different facets of being queer.

Best gay printed comics

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Heartstopper

An LGBTQ webcomic turned graphic novel turn hit-Netflix series – there is no stopping the power of Heartstopper.

The story follows Charlie, a nerdy outcast who falls for dashing rugby player, Nick. So, when they grew up, they began making their comic book worlds, with characters that represented themselves and their friends.

In this article, we explore some of the best gay comics ever to have existed split into 2 parts –gay printed comics exploring everyday LGBTQ issues, and finally, webcomics – those that only existed online (the likes of which gave us the brilliant Heartstopper series for example).

When was the first gay comic released?

The first comic to specifically tackle LGBTQ themes was Gary Trudeau’s Doonesbury.

Don’t Call Me Daddy
We love a story where childhood friends are reunited. Don’t mind if we devour every page!
The year is 2169 and Pan lives quite an ordinary life. Titled “Sandy Comes Out”, it was the first comic strip to include a lesbian.
In the strip (which you can take a peek at on this Tumblr page), Sandy ponders on how she can escape a life of convention and the nuclear family.

Over the years, devoted readers followed the three guys as they experienced one-night stands, relationships, and heartbreaks.
It stars Nick, a middle-aged Jewish man, whose partner passed away from AIDS, Soirée, a black drag artist who was disowned by his family for being gay, and Sky, an artist who grew up in a hippie commune.

A personal and idiosyncratic selection, this isn’t meant to be definitive.

• Gwenaël Rattke record covers

• The art of Paul Binnie

• Splendid Suns

• Bill Travis revisited

• The art of Eduardo Hernández Santos

• The art of Alexander Cañedo, 1902–1978

• Barazoku covers

• Notre Dame des Fleurs: Variations on a Genet Classic

• The art of Shinji Horimura

• Tom’s World

• Born to be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey

• The art of Antoon van Welie, 1866–1956

• The art of Paul Thévenaz, 1891–1921

• The art of Peter Knoch

• The art of Tatsuji Okawa, 1904–1994

• The art of Willem Arondeus, 1894–1943

• The art of Nicholas Tolmachev

• The art of David Haines

• A Q&A with artist Mel Odom

• Homosurrealism

• In Homage to Priapus

• Querelle de Brest

• Fast Friends

• The art of Jean Boullet, 1921–1970

• Tom of Finland redesigned

• May Wilson’s Snowflakes

• Tom of Finland postage stamps

• The art of Robert W.

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• The art of Sidney Hunt, 1896–1940

• Ignacio Goitia interviewed

• Andrey Avinoff revisited

• Fetish photographer Rick Castro

• Keep Your Timber Limber

• The art of Naomichi Okutsu

• The art of Konstantin Somov, 1869–1939

• The art of Seiji Inagaki

• Claudio Bravo’s packages

• Gekko Hayashi revisited

• The art of George Stavrinos, 1948–1990

• The art of Gösta Adrian-Nilsson, 1884–1965

• The art of Gregorio Prieto, 1897–1992

• The art of Guido Reni, 1575–1642

• The art of Michael Leonard

• The art of Ismael Álvarez

• Muto Manifesto, volume 7

• Cum In Your Eye by Scott La Force

• Be prepared

• The art of Xiyadie

• Jacques d’Adelswärd-Fersen revisited

• Gay octopus sex

• The art of Hyeyeol

• Richard Bruce Nugent’s Salomé

• The art of Elmgreen and Dragset

• Elie Grekoff’s Tirésias

• The art of Rob Clarke

• Japanese gay art

• The art of Mel Odom

• The Classical alibi in physique photography

• Ed Wood’s Sleaze Paperbacks

• Looking for the Wild Boys

• Seminal art and design

• The art of Ludwig von Hofmann, 1861–1945

• Muto: The Exterface Manifesto

• Carl Corley

• Phallic casts

• Lonesome Cowboys

• Jean Genet… ‘The Courtesy of Objects’

• Loving Boys by Christian Schad

• Saint Genet

• Le Baiser de Narcisse

• Philippe Jullian, connoisseur of the exotic

• The art of Marcus Behmer, 1879–1958

• Richard de Chazal’s Zodiac

• Wildeana #3

• Der Eigene: Kultur und Homosexualität

• The art of Ignacio Goitia

• Gekko Hayashi: homoerotics and monsters

• The Lady Is Dead and The Irrepressibles

• The fetish art of Taylor Buck

• The art of Ben Kimura

• The art of Dmitry Dmitriev

• Sanctuarium Artis Elisarion

• The recurrent pose #32

• Le livre blanc by Jean Cocteau

• Michelangelo’s Dream

• Sherbet and Sodomy

• The art of Yannis Tsarouchis, 1910–1989

• Ecce homo

• Joseph Cavalieri’s stained glass

• Eros: From Hesiod’s Theogony to Late Antiquity

• The end of Orpheus

• The art of Robert Sherer

• The art of Goh Mishima, 1924–1989

• The art of Benoit Prévot

• The art of Robert R Bliss, 1925–1981

• The art of Oliver Frey

• The Great God Pan

• Jerry by Paul Cadmus

• The art of Ralf Paschke

• The recurrent pose #26

• The art of Anthony Goicolea

• The art of Philip Shadbolt

• The art of Patrick Gerbier

• The art of Paul Richmond

• The art of Hideki Koh

• The art of Cody Furguson

• Colin Corbett’s decorated jockstraps

• Fizeek Art

• Let’s get physical: Bruce of Los Angeles and Tom of Finland

• Secret Lives of the Samurai

• The art of Cuauhtémoc Rodríguez

• Matthew Bourne’s Dorian Gray

• IKO stained glass

• The art of Nebojsa Zdravkovic

• The art of Jason Driskill

• William Rimmer’s Evening Swan Song

• The art of Norbert Bisky

• The art of Joan Sasgar

• Happy birthday Henry

• Phallic worship

• Saint Sebastian in NYC

• Mark Beard’s artistic circle

• Czanara: The Art & Photographs of Raymond Carrance

• The art of Scott Treleaven

• Reflections of Narcissus

• Narcissus

• Guido Reni’s Saint Sebastian

• The art of Sascha Schneider, 1870–1927

• Anthony Gayton’s Fall

• Hadrian and Greek love

• The art of Sadao Hasegawa, 1945–1999

• Cain’s son: the incarnations of Grendel

• The art of Hernan Gimenez

• AVAF at Mao Mag

• The art of Matthew Stradling

• Men with snakes

• Felix D’Eon

• Obverse Paintings by Fred Chuang

• Les Farfadais

• The art of Takato Yamamoto

• The art of NoBeast

• The art of Andrey Avinoff, 1884–1949

• The art of Jacques Sultana

• Toxicboy

• The South Bank Show: Francis Bacon

• The art of Lucio Bubacco

• The Male Gaze

• The art of ejaculation

• Philip Core and George Quaintance

• The Budweiser Ganymede

• Czanara’s Hermaphrodite Angel

• The art of Giulio Aristide Sartorio, 1860–1932

• The art of Robert Flynt

• February boy

• The art of Peter Colstee

• Images of Nijinsky

• Michael Petry’s flag

• Angels 6: Paradise stands in the shadow of swords

• Angels 3: A diversion

• Angels 1: The Angel of History and sensual metaphysics

• The art of Hubert Stowitts, 1892–1953

• The art of Bill Travis

• Jean-Frédéric Bazille’s swimmers

• The art of Paul Cadmus, 1904–1999

• The Cult of Antinous

• Army Day

• Super-objects!

• View: The Modern Magazine

• Michelangelo revisited

• The art of Thomas Eakins, 1844–1916

• Gay book covers

• Marcello Dudovich

• Evolution of an icon

Explore powerful stories of love, friendship, heartbreak, and self-discovery with our top picks of the best gay comics, showcasing diverse voices and unforgettable journeys.
We’re officially coming out of the closet!
No, not that closet.

In the film adaption, Ethan Green lives with his friend, Charlotte, in an apartment in West Hollywood. Wimmen’s Comix
Wimmen’s Comix was an all-female comic anthology that featured a range of stories on love, sex, feminism, and societal beauty standards.
The idea for the collection started in 1970 when the iconic cartoonist Trina Robbins helped put together the first-ever comic book produced solely by women.
There’s the drag king and sex-positive Lois, the English professor Ginger, and environmentalist Clarice – most of whom work in or frequent the city’s many feminist bookshops.
The series sadly went on hiatus in 2008 and hasn’t made a permanent comeback. The Chosen Family
RuPaul famously said that as gay people we get to choose our families – and that’s the exact sentiment that The Chosen Family gives off.
Having started as a pet project in a university newspaper, the comic strip used satirical humor to bring attention to the issues faced by the LGBTQ community.

It’s quite rare to find a gay comic or a manga that represents gay men in their 50s, especially in parts of the world like Japan where homosexuality isn’t as widely accepted, and this is why we rate it as one of the best gay webcomics.
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Best gay printed comics

1. Heartstopper

When was the first gay comic released?

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