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Tommy Roddy, Brian Ponce, Carl Hippensteel,
Pride High #1
by: Tommy Roddy, Brian Ponce, Carl Hippensteel,Pride High is an award-winning independent comic book series about a gay-straight alliance at a high school for superpowered youth. This special edition of the first issue is optimized for digital reading and gives readers a great introduction to the series.
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Pride High is an award-winning independent comic book series about a gay-straight alliance at a high school for superpowered youth.
This special edition of the first issue is optimized for digital reading and gives readers a great introduction to the series.
Pride High writer and co-creator Tommy Roddy was the co-recipient of Prism Comics’ 2008 Queer Press Grant.
Publisher: Northwest Press
Publish Date: 2012
Page Count: 37
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The Power Within $2.99 – $4.99
A comic book tackling the subject of teen bullying and suicide, written by Charles “Zan” Christensen and drawn by Mark Brill.
Shannon gets picked on a lot; his dad and teachers think he should just “fit in” more, but that doesn’t help. So Shannon escapes into a super-powered alter-ego whenever he’s in a bad situation. But will the power within be enough to save him?
In addition to the main story, the book contains bonus pages by a collection of comics industry heavyweights, including Gail Simone (Wonder Woman, Birds of Prey), Phil Jimenez (New X-Men, Wonder Woman), Greg Rucka (Detective Comics, Gotham Central), Matthew Clark (Outsiders, Wonder Woman), Stephen Sadowski (JSA, Warlord of Mars), Dan Parent (Archie, Kevin Keller), Donna Barr (The Desert Peach), Andy Mangels (Gay Comics, Iron Man: Beneath the Armor) and Carla Speed McNeil (FINDER).
Copies of The Power Within are available free of charge to youth services organizations and teachers’ groups. Please contact us by email to request copies. The book contains discussion questions so that the book can be used as a tool to start a conversation about issues of bullying and harassment.
PREVIEW:
Read the first part of the story right now!
INTERVIEWS:
Review at Gay.com by Jase Peeples — “Moved by the rash of suicides committed by bullied LGBT teens last year, Christensen and Brill took it upon themselves to create a story they hope will reach others in a way only comics can.”
Interview on Tacoma KOMO — “Imagine a world in which bullied teens are protected by muscled superheroes. It sounds fantastic, but this is exactly the world Zan Christensen and Mark Brill have created in a new comic intended to help teens cope with bullying and harassment in school.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCXzxJ-qDA4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCGaSZfBpqM
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Sale!Jayson Goes to Hollywood $3.99 – $9.99
Jayson takes on Tinseltown in this brand-new adventure! Can Jayson and Arena track down their mutual ex-boyfriend Ed before Arena’s sister lays claim to his sperm? Or will a close encounter with megastar Kevlar DuPont put a royal kink in their plan? Meanwhile back in Philadelphia, Bertha gets the shock of her life on the set of Robyn’s latest film.
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Three #1 $2.99
Robert Kirby has teamed up with Northwest Press for a digital edition of his comics anthology THREE. This terrific book offers three stories from three different creative teams each issue, and features the cream of the crop of queer comics talents. The first issue includes stories from Eric Orner (The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green), Joey Alison Sayers (Thingpart, Just So You Know) and Robert Kirby (Boy Trouble, Curbside).
Nominated for two 2011 Ignatz Awards: Outstandng Anthology and Outstanding Story (Eric Orner’s “Weekends Abroad”).
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Sale!Fearful Hunter #1 $1.99 – $10.00
From the author of the Lambda Literary Award winning Teleny and Camille comes the first installment of a tale about young lovers in a queer Celtic fantasy world. Oisin, a druid on the eve of his initiation, meets Byron, a troubled werewolf, and they fall in love, but will they be allowed to remain together?
The digital edition includes special features including all new design and cover artwork, video book trailers for books one and two, and eight sketchbook pages.
Fearful Hunter was the recipient of the 2010 Prism Comics Queer Press Grant.
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Positive $3.99 – $12.99
Cartoonist Tom Bouden (Max and Sven, The Importance of Being Earnest) invites you to meet Sarah, a young woman whose life is about to be turned inside out when she discovers that’s she’s HIV positive.
Join Sarah and her partner, Tim, as they take the journey together through shock and uncertainty, pre-dawn pill schedules, side-effects, well-meaning friends, tasteless jokes, medical missteps, and ultimately, hope.
“Positive is a story with the universal message of how to live life without being afraid,” writes GayLeague.com‘s Joe Palmer in the introduction. “This is the story I wish I’d been able to read after my diagnosis years ago. It is the story I hope everyone regardless of his or her sero-status will have the opportunity to read and by which to be inspired.”
