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    Alison Bechdel, Ajuan Mance, Breena Nuñez, Carlo Quispe, Dave Davenport, Diane DiMassa, Dylan “NDR” Edwards, Elizabeth Beier, Ellen Forney, Eric Kostiuk Williams, Gengoroh Tagame, Howard Cruse, Ivan Velez, Jr., Jeanne Thornton, Jennifer Camper, Jon Cairns, Justin Hall, Katie Fricas, Liuxing Johnston, Michael Fahy, Nicole J. Georges, Paige Braddock, Phil Jimenez, Rachael House, Rob Kirby, Rosa Colón Guerra, Rupert Kinnard, Sam Orchard, Sara Lautman, Sonya Saturday, Steve MacIsaac, Tim Paul, Victor Hodge, William O. Tyler, Bishakh Som, Beldan Sezen,

ISBN: 9781943890460

Postcards from Queer Cartoonists: Benefitting Queers and Comics 2019

by: Alison Bechdel, Ajuan Mance, Breena Nuñez, Carlo Quispe, Dave Davenport, Diane DiMassa, Dylan “NDR” Edwards, Elizabeth Beier, Ellen Forney, Eric Kostiuk Williams, Gengoroh Tagame, Howard Cruse, Ivan Velez, Jr., Jeanne Thornton, Jennifer Camper, Jon Cairns, Justin Hall, Katie Fricas, Liuxing Johnston, Michael Fahy, Nicole J. Georges, Paige Braddock, Phil Jimenez, Rachael House, Rob Kirby, Rosa Colón Guerra, Rupert Kinnard, Sam Orchard, Sara Lautman, Sonya Saturday, Steve MacIsaac, Tim Paul, Victor Hodge, William O. Tyler, Bishakh Som, Beldan Sezen,

Support the bi-annual Queers and Comics Conference with this diverse and beautiful limited edition collection of postcards with comic art from 36 LGBTQ cartoonists! Available at a special preorder price until May 1st. All proceeds go to support the Conference, which is coming up in May in New York City.

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Alison Bechdel was originally best known for the long-running comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, and came to critical and commercial success in 2006 with her graphic memoir Fun Home, which was subsequently adapted as a musical which won a Tony Award for Best Musical in 2015. She is a 2014 recipient of the MacArthur "Genius" Award. She is also known for "The Bechdel Test".
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Carlo Quispe, AKA Uranus, is a 35-year-old Peruvian cartoonist living in NYC with his cat, rat and turtle. You can check out his comics magazine URANUS COMICS at printedmatter.org and more gay comics and drawings at vranvs.blogspot.com.
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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.

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Diane DiMassa says: “I am best known for the 90's cult classic Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist comics. I probably wouldn't have contributed to QU33R if Kirby hadn'tve caught me at exactly the right moment. But I'm really glad he did.”
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Dylan Edwards is a queer trans artist, and is the author of Transposes (Northwest Press, 2012), which was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist in 2013 for Best Transgender Non-Fiction, and Politically InQueerect: Old Ghosts and Other Stories (Northwest Press, 2015). His current project is Valley of the Silk Sky, a queer YA science fiction webcomic. He is the recipient of the National LGBTQ Journalists Association’s 2016 Award for Excellence in Transgender Coverage for his comic “How I Told My Grandma I’m Transgender.” His comics have also appeared in various anthologies, including the Ignatz Award-winning QU33R (Northwest Press, 2013), the Lambda Literary Award-winning No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics (Fantagraphics, 2012), and the Lambda Literary Award-winning Beyondanthology (Beyond Press, 2015). Find out more at studiondr.com.
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Elizabeth Beier is an Oakland-based graphic designer, cartoonist, and storyteller. She regularly performs at Bay Area storytelling shows and is a Moth StorySLAM winner. Her comics have earned press from SF Gate and MTV News, and she is a recipient of the 2016 Prism Comics Queer Press Grant.
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Ellen Forney is the author of NYT bestseller Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me, and collaborated with Sherman Alexie on the National Book Award-winning novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. She is the 2012 Genius Award recipient in Literature from Seattle’s The Stranger, and teaches comics at Cornish College of the Arts. More at ellenforney.com.
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Eric Kostiuk Williams is a freelance illustrator and cartoonist based out of Toronto, Canada. His debut autobiographical work Hungry Bottom Comics was nominated for the 2013 Doug Wright Spotlight Award and the 2013 Expozine Award for Best English Comic. He is a contributing illustrator to Xtra! Magazine, and recent clients include Leo Burnett, Fab Magazine, MuchMusic, and Sharpie. In his spare time, he enjoys perusing used record shops, dancing, excavating old queer literature, and re-watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Visit him at ericdraws.com.
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Howard Cruse, the founding editor of Gay Comix, is the author of The Complete Wendel, From Headrack to Claude, The Other Sides of Howard Cruse, and the award-winning graphic novel Stuck Rubber Baby. Visitors to Howard Cruse Central (howardcruse.com) are welcome.
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Ivan Velez, Jr. is a Xeric Grant-winning cartoonist. His work includes Tales of the Closet, Blood Syndicate and Static for Milestone Comics, including Ghost Rider for Marvel Comics, and stuff at DC Comics, Flinch for Vertigo, and Powerpuff Girls for DC Comics. He also edited Dead High Yearbook for Dutton Books, earning an award from the American Library Association. Contact him at planetbronx.com.
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Jennifer Camper’s books include Rude Girls and Dangerous Women and subGURZ, and she is the editor of the two Juicy Mother comix anthologies. Her cartoons and illustrations have appeared in many magazines, newspapers, and comic books. She has no comment on that incident in the basement with the twin chorus girls. Find out more at jennifercamper.com.
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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.

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Michael Fahy’s drawings have appeared in zines and comic books (most notably Boy Trouble) since the early 90's. See more work or contact him at unclegrumpy.tumblr.com.
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Nicole J. Georges is a dog-loving comic artist from Portland, Oregon. She is the author of the graphic memoir Calling Dr. Laura, and the 2013/14 fellow at the Center for Cartoon Studies. Find her at nicolejgeorges.com.
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Minneapolitan Robert Kirby has been drawing and publishing comics since 1990. His self-syndicated comic strip “Curbside” (1991-2008) was collected in two books: Curbside, published with the Xeric Grant in 1998, and Curbside Boys (2002, Cleis Press). His queerboy comics zine anthology Boy Trouble debuted in 1994 and there were two book collections from Green Candy Press: The Book of Boy Trouble (2006) and The Book of Boy Trouble Volume 2: Born to Trouble (2008). The first issue of Robert’s new all-color queer comics anthology THREE debuted in 2010 and was nominated for an Ignatz award for Outstanding Anthology or Collection. In 2011 Robert published a second issue and he was announced as the 2011 recipient of the Prism Queer Press Grant for THREE. The third issue was published to more acclaim in June 2012. All 3 issues of THREE were chosen for the SPX Collection at the Library of Congress. In January 2014, Rob’s series THREE mutated into QU33R, a big 33-person collection of all new, all color comics, published by Northwest Press. It won the 2014 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Anthology or Collection. Rob’s writing, interviews and reviews have appeared online for Maximum Rock N Roll, Panel Patter, and Rain Taxi, and continue regularly at The Comics Journal. He is currently a guest editor for the Illustrated PEN series. His latest books are published by Ninth Art Press: What’s Your Sign, Girl? Cartoonists Talk About Their Sun Signs (2015) and The Shirley Jackson Project: Comics Inspired By Her Life and Work (2016). Find out more at robkirbycomics.com.
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Sam Orchard has identified as L,G, B and T in various times of his life. Currently he uses the words Queer and Trans (among others). He has been drawing comics since he was a little girl, and his comics have been featured in Kate Bornstein’s Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation, and DUDE magazine. He also draws a weekly webcomic about his life at roostertailscomic.com.
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Sonya Saturday is a Los Angeles-based cartoonist and writer. She uses humor in her work to explore love, sex, gender and politics. Sonya began her indie comics career in 2000 with the weekly adult humor comic strip Load, which she wrote and drew for nine years. Sonya is also a produced playwright. Her play for high school students, Don’t Party With My Mom, is published by Playscripts, Inc. From 2011 to 2014, Sonya created interactive storybook apps for children through her company Corky Portwine. She wrote, illustrated, animated, coded and published apps for iOS, Android, Chrome, and Windows. Sonya has been active with Prism Comics–the LGBTQIA comics non-profit organization–since 2008. She regularly attends comic book conventions throughout Southern California, often speaking on panels related to queer comics.
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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.

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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.

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William O. Tyler is an illustrator based out of Southern California. He is a filthy cinephile.

Find out more about him at williamotyler.com.

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Beldan Sezen loves pushing new boundaries and continues to investigate diverse reading experiences through the books she creates.
Her graphic memoir, Snapshots of a Girl, was selected for the American Library Association's 2016 Over the Rainbow List of LGBT Books for Adult Readers. Her handmade books have been acquired by various national and international institutions, including the NYPL and the Library of Congress.
She lives in Brooklyn where she enjoys creating stories, her turntable and her morning coffee. For her life is precious.
Visit her at beldansezen.com.
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Support the bi-annual Queers and Comics Conference with this diverse and beautiful limited edition collection of postcards with comic art from 36 LGBTQ cartoonists! Available at a special preorder price until May 1st. All proceeds go to support the Conference, which is coming up in May in New York City.

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ISBN: 9781943890460
Publisher: Northwest Press
Publish Date: 2018
Page Count: 72

“Postcards from Queer Cartoonists: Benefitting Queers and Comics 2019”

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