Mandragore, a small choose your own adventure comic I published in 2020.
You are a small mandrake root trapped in an alchemist’s vial and you want to get out.
25 pages, interactive PDF. In French and English.
Buy it here :
https://guypradel.fr/produit/mandragore
The Faggots And Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell
This book was published in 1977, and for this reason I read it for the studyblr w/knives pride reading challenge for the prompt old queers. This is a fantasy novel, often categorized as a queer utopia, that in my opions has major fairytale vibes. I am pretty sure the first idea of the author was to create a children's book, but then since one of the main focus turned out to be sexual liberation he changed the target. The story is inspired by the author's own experience living in a queer comunity, and in my opinion it feels very much like a time capsule. The general way things are described, the themes used are evidently those on which queer people focused their protests in the 70s. As I was saying sexual liberation plays a major role, and it's one of the central themes. There are huge critiques to how society is formed, and how mutual support and empathy are what keeps people who stand outside of what this society's norms are standing up. I personally appreciated how different ways of opposing one self to this society are shown, some people rebel with anger, some use pacific methods, there is not a fixed way. Each character has different stories and backgrounds, reminding the reader that as queer people we do stand together but we are different people with different stories. This is a point to our favour and we shouldn't push each other into a specific set of rules to be part of the group. Overall the book is not the easiers read you'll find on your path, at least I did find it harder than expected, but it's surely a book I would recommend reading. As I said if felt like a time capsule, I feel like reading it is a good way to learn a bit more how those who came before us fought for our rights, what were their ways. I read this book as an ebook, but if you plan on reading it I would recommend looking for a physical copy. There's some great illustrations, and the digital version doesn't make them stand out as much as it should. I feel like I might reread this book in a few years to see if I can get more out of it, because although I did like it the feeling I have now that I am done with it is that I still missed something. I would be very curious to know if anyone else has read this and what your opions are on it, because I haven't really heard many people talk about it.
I will soon post a new update on the pride reading challenge.
can anybody help me with figuring out how to put together a zine and upload it to itch. io? i have the imgs and such and dont know how to put it into a book/pages format ((digital))
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