#transcom

[pennymations]

A personal comic I made in honour of my late mother, who passed away ten years ago this month. I will admit that was one of the hardest comics I've ever had to make. I miss you so much, Mom.

[cr1zz0]

Trans Ice-pop...

[deebrisbyfish]

After spending most of yesterday numb, angry, and terrified, I took the time to think about how I both want and NEED to move forward.

For months, I've been pondering if it’s time to move on from my semi-autobiographical webcomic, “Finding Dee”, for a few months now. I wrote a whole blog post about it, and I’ve even been working on some potential new ideas for new comic strips. All kinds of fun stuff. I’ve been considering that when I had enough material for one more trade… about 40 weeks of strips… I might put this comic to bed and move on. Then, I woke up yesterday morning to the election results and have spent most of that day feeling like I’ve been repeatedly kicked in the stomach. That feeling hasn’t really gone away and likely won’t for a while, but like a lot of chronic pain, I’m learning how to function with it being ever-present. Whee.

As such, it was important to me yesterday afternoon, after I finished with work, to immediately draw THIS. To put these thoughts out there in my chosen medium of expression, doing the thing I love to do the most: make comics Now, another factor in my concerns over whether it was time to end “Finding Dee” came down to the election, and the promises contained within Project 2025. 

The incoming regime has promised that in their new world order, being publicly transgender can become a punishable crime. Telling transgender stories will be flagged as porn, and porn will be made illegal as well. I will be branded a sex criminal for telling what can quantifiably be called the LEAST sexy webcomic ever. Because Republicans needed a boogeyman to terrify their ignorant base, and we were RIGHT THERE.

But, after a lot of thought and consideration, I decided that I am not ready to retire this strip just yet. Maybe if something cool happens and I decide to move on, but like I said in the strip here… I want that to be MY choice. Not the government.

So, I’m moving forward. The strip will continue as it’s been until I DECIDE that I’m done with it. End of rant… for now.

[khalemchurstcomics]

🏠AT MY MOTHER'S HOUSE🏠

This started as a poem, but I am not good at poems, so I made it into a comic.

All the wonderful quirks of my mum's house.

The ways I am loved.

The ways I am seen.

And the ways I am not seen.

Maybe your mother's house is a little like mine.

Even if she doesn't see you...

I see you. I love you.

(Originally posted to my IG @khalemchurst)

[harrysaxonpm]

Exclusive preview απο την αρχή του "Ο Τηλέμαχος και το δέρας" για τα άτομα που δεν το έχουν πάρει ακόμη στα χέρια τους.

"Ο Τηλέμαχος, ένας επιτυχημένος συγγραφέας παιδικών βιβλίων, ζει ευτυχισμένος με τη σύντροφό του σε ένα διαμέρισμα στον Πεντάλοφο της Σαββάνα. Μια μέρα όμως, ένα τηλεφώνημα θα φέρει τα πάνω-κάτω, καθώς ο εκδοτικός οίκος που ο Τηλέμαχος συνεργάζεται, θα του αναθέσει να γράψει ένα βιβλίο για εκείνον, για τη ζωή του και τη φυλομετάβασή του. Ο Τηλέμαχος θα πρέπει να βουτήξει σε έναν ωκεανό οδυνηρών αναμνήσεων και να παλέψει ξανά με τα φαντάσματα του παρελθόντός του προκειμένου να τα καταφέρει."

Για πληροφορίες/πωλήσεις/ερωτησεις/reviews/συνεντεύξεις/εξομολογήσεις στείλτε μου προσωπικό μήνυμα. Ή και γενικά στείλτε μου μήνυμα αν σας έλειψα.

[connyscomics]

Until I Become Me by Satou Hatsuki

Trans rep: 8/10

General enjoyment: 8/10

Okay so this will be the first of my longer reviews that I post, and so for readers that don’t want that I’ll first say some words about the comic (in summary or smth). Basically the comic is good but oddly executed and is built around a sort of stupid gender swap premise. Okay so uhm yeah heres my goliath of an essay (actually its just like 600 words, but yk this is tumblr not a newspaper… oh whatever):

I started writing about Trans comics almost three years ago because I noticed that there was not one single thorough guide or reading list for someone trying to find comics about Trans people. There are a few guides out there that allow you to search under the tag of “Transgender”, but every single one has the same five or ten entries that barely have any Transgender representation.

The genre of Transgender comics may seem small, but once you start digging you’ll quickly find that there are so many great comics to be found, if only you just look hard enough!

It took me three years of searching to find Until I Become Me by Satou Hatsuki in the footnotes of a poorly written article about another Trans comic I was researching, but boy was it worth the wait. Until I Become Me is a not-so-classic twist on the classic manga trope of “gender benders” or “gender swap,” in which a character (typically male) magically Transforms (typically overnight) into the opposite sex. This trope generally plays into outdated understandings of gender and sex and the intersection of the two to create what has historically been seen as a humorous plot point.

Gender swap tropes are rooted in a gender-essentialist perspective that there is something inherently “female” about some bodies and something inherently “male” about other bodies and that only a magical binary “switch” could turn a boy into a girl. In reality, gender and bodies are not so completely binary and not so completely set in stone, and furthermore if someone wants to change their body, modern medical transition options are very effective for changing someone’s “sex”.

Normally I can’t stand comics like this because they are full to the brim with Transphobic rhetoric, gender-essentialism, and usually a good amount of oversexualization. However, Until I Become Me is different, because the gender swap mechanic is not seen as a funny joke or a one-off bit but instead as a serious and confusing emotional experience for a character with a lot of internalized self-hatred and Trans desires.

The main character, Akira, hesitantly explores what it means to have a feminine body while simultaneously coping with her growing enjoyment of this experience: she didn’t magically become a girl overnight (mentally speaking) but the “girl” might have been there all along.

This strikingly fresh take on both the Transgender experience and the gender-swap trope is as fun as it is heart wrenching. Before her body changed, Akira regularly harassed and bullied girls in her class, and then after changing ends up facing much of the same treatment from boys in her class. Watching Akira reflect on her own past behaviors towards girls when she was a “boy” hits deep into the real-world challenge of many Trans people to balance internalized prejudices with learned experiences.

Although overall I found the comic really enjoyable and its storyline surprisingly poignant, there were definitely some moments that were hard to read.

The way in which her parents treat her, as a freak of nature that desperately needs “fixing,” and the way that boys in her class (particularly early on when they knew her before the change) treat her, as a subject of ridicule and regular sexual harassment, its all quite difficult to read. But this does not make the story any less valuable as a Trans narrative, in fact the balancing of the softer internal exploration with the harsh outside world is exactly what makes Until I Become Me one of the most harshly realistic comics I’ve ever read.

Admittedly, the gender swap mechanic is a bit cheesy at first, but I think Hatsuki did a good job separating the brain from the body and allowing the Transgender themes to come front and center. The comic is on chapter 63 currently and regularly updating, already having cemented itself as one of the greatest Transgender texts, comic or otherwise, that's ever been written.

[cuntrybrat]

deanie weanie your face is so hard to capture .. such voluptuous boy lips .. such squinty green long lashed eyeballs .... u have a real scrunchy essence which is hard to capture my love

[haunturhome]

My little sisters have to be my favorite people to have come out to.

The older one was just immediately "Oh, what are your pronouns?" and "I always wanted a brother." And she had her friends start using he/him for me and they genuinely see me as a man.

I never really formally came out to my baby sister but she's gen alpha and her favorite plushies are her family of frogs with trans and gender-nonconforming parents so she heard someone use he/him for me and has kinda rolled with it.

[littletron]

This made my cry so hard the first time I saw it, and it still does.

[thescribblemouse]

HOWDY! I'm going to be reading some excerpts from my comic, In Transition, along with some other great cartoonists at the Staple + Stitch Book and Print Fair! It's this Saturday (November 16) at 2 pm. If you're in Chicago stop by the 21(c) Museum to catch it.

I'm so excited for everyone to share their comics! I'll be reading along with Sidne K. Gard, @spryhaunch, Oz Hukalowicz, and Teddie Bernard!

[pennymations]

Maid Outfit A short little comic based on an irl experience I had on Halloween nearly two years ago. P.S. I still have the maid outfit! :)

[cr1zz0]

"Do you want to wear a maid dress or a butler's suit?" Both... :3

[deebrisbyfish]

This IS an idea I have actually spent a LOT of time trying to turn into a bigger story. It's one of the main things ab out my transition that's NOT been covered in the strip, and that's mostly because I've been struggling to make a more "important" story out of it. When I came out, I knew I wanted a name that started with a "D". It's just a thing with me. And I also wanted to keep my signature, which has always been "D. Fish". Plus, as stated in the strip itself, most of my friends over the years have reduced my old name down to the letter "D" anyway, so it felt really comfortable and natural. That said, my thoughts on the aforementioned "old names" are a topic for another strip. Next weeks, in fact.

[imstillalexcomic]

WORDS, AM I RIGHT?

Seriously though, we're all different and everyone's preferred terms are going to be that way as well.

There's a lot I need to learn to be a better ally myself and I 100% guarantee that I'm going to screw up, likely often! I'm a severely indelicate person and my humor can definitely come off negatively. While I'm never going to say anything to intentionally hurt, that doesn't mean that I can't cause pain and I hope to be better.

On a side note, Toobs has made an appearance for the first time in doodle form! Look at her, ISN'T SHE THE CUTEST GODDAMN THING?

LOOK AT HOW CUTE MY KITTY IS.

#trans#transgender#transcomics#webcomics#comics#gender#genderqueer#transpride#transrights#transrightsarehumanrights#LGBTQ

[harrysaxonpm]

Σχεδον 1,5 μηνα απο την εκδοση του "Ο Τηλέμαχος και το δέρας" απο την Jemma Press ειπα να μοιραστω μαζι σας καποια σχόλια που εχουν γραφτεί για το κομικ.

(Ο Τηλεμαχος βρισκεται στα φυσικα καταστηματα Jemma, οπως και online, στα περισσοτερα καταστηματα με κομικς και μεσω εμου - αν με βρειτε σε καποιο φεστιβαλ ή/και ταχυδρομικα, αν θελετε ιδιοχειρη αφιέρωση/σχέδιο)

[silentffantasy]

capcom? more like, uh

transcom