Category: After Dark

a detail from the cover of Other Ever Afters by Melanie Gillman

INTERVIEW: Melanie Gillman Chats About Craving Queer Community in Other Ever Afters

Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales collects Melanie Gillman’s fairy tale comics in their distinctive lush colored pencil art. The stories are diverse, poignant, and progressive, and I was thrilled to sit down with Melanie Gillman over Zoom recently and ask all kinds of questions about fairy tales, queerness, and their intersections.

Three panels from Trinidad Escobar's Arrive in My Hands. The woman featured in all three panels is bright blue, as are the gutters around the panel. We see three angels of her face as she gasps and moans. "Mmmmm" runs along the gutters.

REVIEW: Arrive In My Hands: Queer Erotic Comics is Poetic Magic

In recent years, indie comic readers have been gifted with more and more works, from short autobiographical comics to webcomics and zines to anthologies with the erotic in mind. More comics and comic-related reading material crowdfunded, printed out for conventions, and uploaded online exploring not just queer identities but queer desire and queer liberation. This…

Cover to Sordid Past, which reads "Smut Peddler Presents." Featuring a seated, blonde young man with his shirt half off, partially pushed off by a standing man with a vest, cravat, and long dark hair. A light brown skinned woman is at the blonde's front, leaning into his chest. Their hair is tousled by the wind and their clothes look vaguely historical.

REVIEW: Queer History Sparkles in Smut Peddler: Sordid Past

All the Smut Peddler comics compile sex-positive, more or less queer- and trans-positive, very NSFW comics. They’re big anthologies, full-color, with glossy production values, and they’ve already got a following, which they very much deserve: this sixth installment in the series hits in every way. I can’t think of an NSFW comic that I’d recommend…

An image of a Black man in a brown leather coat and dark clothing holding a gun. A woman with pink hair is seated before him and holding a gun. They are set against a metropolitan city background.

REVIEW: Unbound Levels Up

Initially released as a five-issue series from 2019 to 2020, Unbound blends cyberpunk and fantasy elements in a neon-infused mystery that wears its influences on its sleeve. Writer Ralph Tedesco and artist Oliver Borges team up with color artists Leonardo Paciarotti and Maxflan Araujo in a bloody hunt for werewolves, vampires, and masked killers through…

A pale woman in a black cloak stands against a purple and red bar scene. She holds a scythe and raises a glass to the viewer.

REVIEW: Grimm Tales of Terror Quarterly Presents: Bachelorette Party

Beginning with a story of fraught friendships before unfolding into a The Hangover-style paranormal mystery, the latest issue of Grimm Tales of Terror Quarterly Presents tells the story of a bachelorette party gone wrong. The interesting demonic antagonist and a compelling mystery plot make for an entertaining story, but the inconsistent artwork brings the party…

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