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Dave Davenport, Justin Hall, BiL Sherman, Steve MacIsaac, Drub, Brad Rader, Jon Macy, Victor Hodge, William O. Tyler, Julian Cardozo,
Hard to Swallow
by: Dave Davenport, Justin Hall, BiL Sherman, Steve MacIsaac, Drub, Brad Rader, Jon Macy, Victor Hodge, William O. Tyler, Julian Cardozo,Hard to Swallow Comics was launched with a simple premise: that erotic comics should be great stories as well as being sexy. The series ran from 2006 to 2009 and featured everything from werewolves and skater ghosts to pirates and porn stars. Now the whole series—plus a whole issue’s worth of new material—has been collected into one deluxe volume!
$14.99 – $39.99
Dave Davenport lives in Los Angeles with his dog. His comic book work has appeared in Hard To Swallow Comics, and his own book Feral and the Ghostskater (winner of the Prism Comics Queer Press Grant). Anthologies that have included his work have been Best Erotic Comics, True Porn 2, and Alphabet. Dave is an alumni of the Academy of Arts in San Francsico, recieving a bachelor’s degree in illustration, though he’s mainly only illustrated for the likes of Unzipped, Freshmen, Men, Out, and Instigator magazines (smut, smut, SMUT!). In a past life Dave animated from the video game developers Illusions Gaming Co., and BLAM! In this life, he tattoos under the name of Dogspunk, and the shop name of Marginalized Tattoo. He was a founding member of Bent Comix, and from 2010-2013 was a founder and art director for Bent-Con.
Explore more Dave at dogspunk.com.
Justin Hall is a San Francisco-based cartoonist and educator. He created the comics series True Travel Tales, Glamazonia, and Hard To Swallow (with Dave Davenport), with his work also appearing in such places as the Houghton Mifflin Best American Comics, Best Erotic Comics, QU33R, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. He is the editor of No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics, which won a Lambda Literary Award and received an Eisner Award nomination and is now being adapted into a documentary film. Hall has curated shows of comics art at the S.F. Cartoon Art Museum and the Schwules (Gay) Museum in Berlin, helped create the Artists’ Area at the Folsom Street Fair, and is the co-organizer of the Queers & Comics conference. He has been on the boards of the nonprofits Prism Comics (supporting LGBTQ comics) and Our Books (supporting Cambodian comics), and has done academic writing on comics for the Routledge and Cambridge presses. He is an Assistant Professor of Comics at the California College of the Arts, and a Fulbright Scholar. Find out more at justinhallcomics.com.

BiL Sherman is a two-time art school dropout who is starting technical school to learn web design. He plays in a rock band, drinks beer, and likes to sleep. Check out Fear for the Folk Studios (fearforthefolk.com) for more BiL Sherman goodness.

Steve MacIsaac has been drawing naked men pretty much since he could pick up a pencil. Being somewhat slow on the uptake, he had a hard time figuring out that this tendency might hold some clue to his sexual orientation. He has self-published five issues of his series Shirtlifter.
Visit SteveMacIsaac.com for more.

Drub has been drawing perverted pictures since age 15. He’s also a fist pig, armpit muncher, dildo freak, watersports enthusiast, and a shrimper of men with dirty tube socks. Drub has been featured in Blue, Freshmen, Gay-News Amsterdam, and Instigator Magazine, and has exhibited in Amsterdam, Berlin, Toronto, Hollywood, Seattle, and other cities.
For more, visit DrubSkin.com.

Brad Rader has been doing homoerotic art since 1984, appearing in Drummer, Firsthand, and Chiron Rising, among others. He’s also published his own erotic magazine True Adult Fantasy and graphic novel Harry and Dickless Tom.
See more Brad Rader artwork at FlamingArtist.com.

Victor Hodge is a mystery and horror writer, artist, and cartoonist. His work can be found in Juicy Mother, Boy Trouble, and his series Black Gay Boy Fantasy.
Catch up with Victor at victorhodge.blogspot.com.

William O. Tyler is an illustrator based out of Southern California. He is a filthy cinephile.
Find out more about him at williamotyler.com.
Julian Cardozo is an Argentinian illustrator in his thirties. Likes: beefy tits, mate drink, oral sex and redheads. Hobbies: reading comics and quoting The Simpsons. He was a tattoo artist one time, but got drunk and made a mess and then stopped.
Dave Davenport and Justin Hall launched Hard to Swallow Comics with a simple premise: that erotic comics should be great stories as well as being sexy. The series ran from 2006 to 2009 and featured everything from werewolves and skater ghosts to pirates and porn stars. Now the whole series—plus a whole issue’s worth of new material—has been collected into one deluxe volume!
Watch the video trailer for the book below:
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ISBN: 9781943890347
Publisher: Northwest Press
Publish Date: 2016
Page Count: 320
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Format | Hardcover, Paperback, Digital, Apple Digital Version |
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Rainy Day Recess: The Complete Steven’s Comics by: David Kelly $6.99 – $19.99
From 1995 to 1998, David Kelly’s “Steven’s Comics” ran in LGBT and alternative newspapers around the country. This comic strip explored the world of a sensitive boy coming of age in the seventies, with all its joys, quirks, and heartbreaks. Rainy Day Recess: The Complete Steven’s Comics collects the entire Xeric-Award-winning series in one volume suitable for young adult and adult readers, with additional material created specially for this collection.
The book also includes a foreword by advice columnist and It Gets Better Project founder Dan Savage; Northwest Press will be making a donation to the It Gets Better Project with every copy sold.
Includes a foreword by It Gets Better founder Dan Savage.
PREVIEWS:
You can read a preview of Rainy Day Recess: The Complete Steven’s Comics right here on the site.
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Rated 3.50 out of 5Dash #2 by: Dave Ebersole, Delia Gable, $2.99 – $3.99
After the shocking events of the last issue, Dash is now on the hunt for the mysterious Zita Makara. But will a violent interrogation by his former colleague turned rival, Detective Bruno Fernez, prevent him from stopping another murder?
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Rated 4.00 out of 5The Legend of Bold Riley #1 by: Leia Weathington, Jonathon Dalton, $2.99 – $3.99
Bold Riley—who has set out to find adventure in the lands beyond her home of Prakkalore—comes across a fragment of bone that shares a tale of lost love. Riley tries to reunite the lost spirit with its beloved, but soon discovers that all is not as it seemed…
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Rated 3.00 out of 5Fearful Hunter by: Jon Macy, Justin Hall, Dave Davenport, William O. Tyler, Steve MacIsaac, Dylan “NDR” Edwards, Sina Sparrow, René Capone, Agnes Czaja, Sean Z. Maker, $12.99 – $24.99
Oisin, a shy young druid, lives in a ferocious world of sacred sexuality and erotic elder gods. When he falls for Byron, a simple wolf who only mates for life, their love threatens the plans of those who desire a forbidden power. Do the star-crossed lovers stand a chance when lascivious Druid masters and savage elder gods threaten their fragile new relationship?
Punk music, pickup trucks, and psychedelic earth magic add an urban spin to this captivating queer Celtic fantasy world.
Written and drawn by Jon Macy, with bonus stories and art by Justin Hall, Dave Davenport, William O. Tyler, Steve MacIsaac, Dylan Edwards, Sina Sparrow, René Capone, Agnes Czaja, and Sean Z. Maker.
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Rated 3.67 out of 5Al-Qaeda’s Super Secret Weapon by: $5.99 – $14.99
Turns out the end of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was just the opening that the terrorists were waiting for! This witty, sexy, spy tale sends up Republicans, the War on Terror™ and gay clichés from A to Z. The end of the world was never so fabulous!
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