Sexuality Archives

REVIEW: Crave #2 – An Erotic Thriller with a Technological Twist

February 7, 2024

Crave #1 teased an erotic thriller with a technological twist. Maria Llovett’s second issue follows through on this promise while leaving readers chomping at the bit for whatever is next. Fans of Llovett expect the artist to explore sinful themes with evocative, sensual art, and Llovett ...

Comics, Reviews, Webcomics

REVIEW: Girl Juice Is Every Roommate You Had in Your 20s

July 19, 2023

(or you are that roommate) The transition of a webcomic to print is always exciting for me; it often showcases how a cartoonist’s skills have improved over time, be they narrative, visual, or both. Even for veritable pros in comics, the tangible progression of a collected series shows off how ...

Comics, Essays, Webcomics

Octopus Pie Eternal: A Wibbly Wobbly Timeline

January 12, 2023

On November 23rd, Meredith Gran posed a question on Twitter: “Lately I’ve been wondering if I should draw more Octopus Pie as the characters age. I guess this is a typical dilemma for an artist: find a new conduit for exploring life as you live it, or risk turning the old one into a whole ...

Comics, Manga, Reviews

Catch These Hands! is a Sweet, Romantic Treat

October 5, 2022

If you were a Fruits Basket teen and felt that Arisa Uotani should’ve been queer, I’ve got good news for you! Catch These Hands! is here to grant your wish. Catch These Hands! finds Ayako Takebe, a former delinquent, lost in her adulthood. As a teen Takebe was one of the best fighters around, ...

Comics, Indie & Small Press, Reviews

REVIEW: Flung Out of Space Paints a Complex and Brilliant Portrait of Patricia Highsmith

March 15, 2022

I don’t have the right words to prepare you for this comic. At its simplest, Flung Out of Space is about Patricia Highsmith’s quest to escape the drudgery of writing comics and get her novels published, including Carol, considered the first lesbian romance with a happy ending. It’s also about ...

Comics, Indie & Small Press, Reviews

REVIEW: The Dreams of Queer Utopia Will Inspire You to Dream

September 10, 2020

In a pandemic, in a time of unrest, in a world that constantly keeps marginalized people in crisis, how do we imagine an ideal future? How do we look past the obstacles immediately in front of us and consider a happy, queer world? How do we dream? Editor and cartoonist H-P Lehkonen decided to ...

Comics, Indie & Small Press, Reviews

New Colors for Bug Boys and Witchlight Enrich their Stories

May 20, 2020

I’m a big fan of Czap Books, especially two of their earlier publications – Laura Knetzger’s sweet, slice-of-life series Bug Boys, and Jessi Zabarsky’s emotional, warm fantasy Witchlight. I’ve written about both comics before, but since those initial pieces both books were picked up by Random ...

Comics, Indie & Small Press, Reviews, Zines

Jane Mai’s Soft is a Brilliant Retelling of Carmilla

April 30, 2020

CONTENT WARNING: This article contains discussion of abusive relationships. When a friend recommended I watch a low budget webseries about a lesbian vampire who falls in love with her plucky college roommate, I didn’t realize it was based on Carmilla, a vampire novella by Sheridan Le Fanu older ...

Comics, Indie & Small Press, Reviews, Zines

Normal Offers Queer, Desi Horror That Packs a Punch

February 6, 2020

The last Gaysi zine I reviewed was All that We Want, a gorgeous, warm celebration of queer desire. Their newest zine, Normal, is a complete departure from that exploration of queer joy, and instead dives into all that keeps us from such experiences. As Niyati Joshi makes known in their ...

Comics, Essays, Opinion

The Performative Horniness of Dawn of X

December 4, 2019

Adjoining bedrooms. That was all it took for the X-Men’s most infamous love triangle to suddenly become a canon poly triad in the minds of fans everywhere. Elsewhere in the same issue, we bore witness to Corsair’s partner hitting on Rachel Summers, his granddaughter, another character generally ...

Sexuality

REVIEW: Crave #2 – An Erotic Thriller with a Technological Twist

REVIEW: Girl Juice Is Every Roommate You Had in Your 20s

Octopus Pie Eternal: A Wibbly Wobbly Timeline

Catch These Hands! is a Sweet, Romantic Treat

REVIEW: Flung Out of Space Paints a Complex and Brilliant Portrait of Patricia Highsmith

REVIEW: The Dreams of Queer Utopia Will Inspire You to Dream

New Colors for Bug Boys and Witchlight Enrich their Stories

Jane Mai’s Soft is a Brilliant Retelling of Carmilla

Normal Offers Queer, Desi Horror That Packs a Punch

The Performative Horniness of Dawn of X

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