#lgbt webcomics

[floral-monsters]

Dating apps for my funky little lesbians. A hugely fun part of making these was figuring out everyone’s sun signs. 🌞

[myloveinstitches]

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Aggie knows what she's about! Heads up that the comic will be taking a week off for Christmas next week!

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[artbytesslyn]

Patterns of behavior.

My sapphic/ solarpunk webcomic FACING THE SUN has a new update, please give it a read!

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[obeliskcomic]

Obelisk is back today! ✨

Read the newest page here, Or start from the beginning. And for the next two weeks, there will be an extra update on Fridays! Though if you're eager for more right away -

The next four months of pages are already up on Patreon! ;)

[hazardscomic]

Today: Someone is having a moment.

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[[ The Hazards of Love  is a webcomic about a nonbinary teen from Queens who gets dragged into a  surreal place called Bright World where humans are classified as “edible” and “inedible.” Now they have to figure out a way to get back home while doing their best to, y’know, avoid death. Updates Tuesdays and Fridays.



[corantus]

the much anticipated Johnny and Roxy spinoff, SPACE DETECTIVE STORM HORIZON, is here! get ready for some high octane character development!!!

now available at johnnyandroxy.com 🪐🕵️

[draculings]

Tender moments between Margot and Eve... I'm love them.....

(Tho sometimes--)

[farragone]

plot!!

(I have been thinking about the true black versus the one I'd use for line art for a long time now, and I do really love seeing them contrasted against each other)

⇤ ⭠ ⭢ ⇥

[captainmera]

♥ HIVEWORKS COMICS ♥ HIVEMILL/SHOP

www.INBLOODWERISE.com

If you want some comic suggestions of hives, check out my post with some really cool ones!:

[theeggoman]

NEW WEBCOMIC BOIS

Every few Millenia, the God of Death is reincarnated into a new form, and this time he’s a grumpy crawfish captain sailing along the Bayou in a Luisiana Riverboat. He and his loyal servant live a quiet existence leading lost souls into the afterlife. That is, until two children somehow end up stuck in the land of the dead and have no idea how to get home.

[myloveinstitches]

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Vintage outfits and Vintage beef.

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[artbytesslyn]

Cry baby cry.

New pages of my sapphic/ solarpunk webcomic FACING THE SUN is up, and the whole thing is free to read!

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[obeliskcomic]

In 1908 Manhattan, Evelyn Reuter struggles to find her place in the life left to her by her late father - until she meets Margot, a mysterious and eccentric shopkeeper, at the center of her unanswered questions. As the two grow closer, Eve is faced with a tempting distraction from all her grief and uncertainty, and a new question is raised by Margot's own vampiric secret: 

What sort of person falls in love with a monster?

It's been quite some time since I've posted here so, hey! Obelisk: Chapter One is complete and available now as an ebook!

This collection is fully remastered with revised dialogue, additional artwork, new page layouts, and ten whole pages of extras! Making this book really kept me afloat while I couldn't draw - I poured my heart into it and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did making it!

You can grab a copy right here - or just start reading first ;)

[rainbow-comic]

New RAINBOW! Update on Webtoon and Tapas! You can read 3 episodes ahead on Tapas~

Webtoons | Tapas

[hazardscomic]

Today: A nod to José Guadalupe Posada's old advertisement prints.

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[[ The Hazards of Love  is a webcomic about a nonbinary teen from Queens who gets dragged into a  surreal place called Bright World where humans are classified as “edible” and “inedible.” Now they have to figure out a way to get back home while doing their best to, y’know, avoid death. Updates Tuesday

[washipink]

The Rain Review (Finale)

If you’ve been with my blog for the past week or so, You’ll know I’ve been reading a childhood favorite webcomic of mine, Rain by Jocelyn Samara. And you’d probably be wondering what happened to my review of the comic Year-by-Year. The answer? I went on a road trip for a few days and couldn’t help but read the whole rest of the comic. So today I’m here to talk about my overall thoughts.

For the uninitiated, Rain is a slice-of-life webcomic that started in 2010. It’s about a transgender teenage girl of the same name navigating her senior year at a Catholic high school. There’s a LOT of romantic and gender-related drama. Friends are made and lost. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll see yourself in the characters somewhere along the line.

My experience with Rain prior to this project only goes up to about 2014. I started reading it in middle school on Smackjeeves.com. Y’all remember Smackjeeves? I miss it every day. Apparently it redirects to a shitty webtoon clone now. IDK where I’m gonna find peoples’ sprite comics produced in 2013 now.

Anyway, I bring this up to say that I had stopped keeping up with Rain even though she was a major part of me accepting who I was. When I found out that her story had come to a close, I had a real need to find out how.

This time, there won’t be a plot summary because this comic ran for 11 years and it takes me long enough to do just 1. That and, if I may spoil my final opinion, I really want you to give it a read for yourself.

ART

I want to get this one out of the way because it’s a very common critique that even I hold to some extent. The art in Rain is a clear indicator of the era its artist hails from. In 2010, anime and manga had just hit the American mainstream. Everyone was reading those “How to Draw Anime” books and took a lot of notes from them. To showcase, here’s a page from Chapter 1, the first color page in fact.

This page is actually one of the busier pages in terms of art. Jocelyn doesn’t usually do background details much, if at all. Usually, backgrounds are depicted as solid colors that are associated with specific locations. Grey for the apartment, sky blue for outside, light green for school, etc. But the way Rain is drawn here bears a striking resemblance to the styles a LOT of people were using at the time.

While Jocelyn’s style stays rooted in, shall we say, American who got really into anime, her techniques evolve over time. Especially in terms of displaying what’s going on with limited background detail.

As an example, I really enjoy this scene. Rain and Emily are, in universe, speaking over the phone right now. But neither of them are holding their phones to their ears. They’re looking at each other as if they’re in the same room. Jocelyn uses a gradient background to signify that the two of them are NOT in the same room, but as they get closer during their conversation, they get physically closer in the panel as well.

This page is taken from 2014, about 4 years into the comic’s run. You can see that Jocelyn’s brush choices have changed. Everything is far smoother than it was toward the start. While the overall style is as simplistic as year 1, her technique has changed a lot.

That comfort with her work only continues to grow. Below is a panel from a bonus page that released after the comic’s conclusion. The line work is the cleanest its ever been.

STORY AND CHARACTERS

Now this right here is the REAL meat of the comic. Regardless of any feelings I had on the art, the characters really endeared me. And this being a slice-of-life teen drama, they had plenty of time to learn, grow, and clash against one another.

The majority of the conflict in Rain comes from people being set in their ways. Rain’s whole gaggle of queer friends is hiding from the school’s principal, who refuses to acknowledge that maybe there’s nothing wrong with being a little gay. One of the most compelling ongoing threads in the comic centers around Rain’s brother and sister trying to understand and accept her. These personal stakes were a really enjoyable break from the kind of thing I usually read. In Rain, there is no world to be saved or villain to defeat, but there IS a prom to go to. Sometimes, that’s all you need to tell a good story.

The comic has this small-town vibe I care for a lot. Sometimes, a character will exit another’s life and you’ll never expect to see them again. Then they’ll end up dating Rain’s aunt or something. Word spreads fast in Centerville. People are gossipy. Sometimes, you tell someone something and it reaches ears you didn’t want to hear it. That gossip is what makes things so dangerous for Rain. If the wrong person finds her out, then EVERYONE finds her out. The same goes for all her friends.

There’s all kinds of flavor of queer in this comic in a way that mirrors real life friend groups. We have a tendency to find each other like that.

With all kinds of queers being hormonal teens, things get messy FAST. There’s a lot of things that happen in this comic that I feel like baby gays need to see. There’s a point where a gay boy and a trans girl start going out because... this just happens sometimes. Nobody is “the villain” in this scenario. They both just tried to explore themselves and found mixed results.

That’s one of the big themes of Rain. Self-exploration. Every chapter, we’re learning more about these characters as they learn more about themselves. Nobody stays in the same headspace for too long. They’re constantly evolving.

FINAL THOUGHTS

Rain is ABSOLUTELY worth the read. It’s actually a really easy read. I was able to finish it in about 2 weeks, so I’m sure it won’t take up too much of your time. But, it’s a really heartwarming story that I’m sure a lot of us can relate to. Thanks for going on this journey with me. And be safe, Rain Beaus.