Hard to Swallow

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.