Hilarious sex humor within! Seen in independent publications nationwide, Sonya Samantha Saturday’s “Load” is the one comic strip unafraid to laugh at the most intimate parts of human nature. This full-color collection contains over 70 of the best strips from 2006 to 2008, ten in color for the first time. The book also contains the one page comic “The Morning Fucker’s Guide to Morning Love”, not available anywhere else!
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.
Hilarious sex humor within! Seen in independent publications nationwide, Sonya Samantha Saturday’s “Load” is the one comic strip unafraid to laugh at the most intimate parts of human nature. This full-color collection contains over 70 of the best strips from 2006 to 2008, ten in color for the first time. The book also contains the one page comic “The Morning Fucker’s Guide to Morning Love”, not available anywhere else!
The fourth issue of Steve MacIsaac’s Shirtlifter contains another standalone episode of “Unpacking”, MacIsaac’s graphic novel in progress, which he began in issue three.
Matt is a Vancouver graphic designer who has begun spending time with a visiting businessman. The catch? The businessman is straight. And married. And their no strings relationship begins to get tangled.
This issue also features an excerpt from “The Liar” by Justin Hall (Glamazonia, Hard to Swallow) and selection of “Dick” strips from Ilya (End of the Century Club).
The digital edition contains 12 pages of bonus materials giving readers a look behind the scenes in the creation of “Unpacking”.
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”).
Jon Macy, longtime contributor to gay comics publications such as Gay Comics and Boy Trouble, has adapted a moving and erotic gay love story from the classic Teleny: Or the Reverse of the Medal. attributed to Oscar Wilde and his circle of writers and poets.
Camille, a wealthy young gentleman in Victorian London, falls in love with the handsome and mesmerizing pianist Teleny. While Teleny performs on stage, the two star-crossed lovers discover they share a psychic link in the form of an erotic vision. While Camille struggles to resist his homosexuality Teleny is being pursued by others. After telepathically witnessing the erotic encounters Teleny has with both sexes, Camille attempts suicide. Teleny rescues Camille physically and emotionally with his rapturous love forsaking all others. In this newfound happiness Camille tries to forget that Teleny owes much of his success to the generosity of the women who desire him.
Fans of gay comics and gay love stories will devour this sensual tome.
Winner of the 2010 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Erotica!
PREVIEW:
Read the entire first chapter right now! (This preview has had a few images obscured in order to make it more acceptable for general audiences; the full graphic novel is sexually explicit and is intended for adult readers only.)
INTERVIEWS:
Interview with Outlook Columbus — “The bottom line? This book is fun. It’s unique, academic and sexy. Teleny and Camille is far and away the most innovative gay novel of the past few years. I caught up with other Jon Macy to talk about his creation.” — Mackenzie Worrall
Interview on The Feast of Fun podcast — “Based on Teleny, the secret round-robin novel written by Oscar Wilde and his anonymous circle of friends, the classic work of erotica is now visually re-interpreted by Macy in all its lush, sexual excess. Join us as we take a look at the origins of modern gay culture in Victorian England, the origins of one guy one jar, the complicated man that was Oscar Wilde and how to cruise for sex in ye merrie olde England.”
An ebook compilation of Howard Cruse’s gay-themed comic strips and comic book stories published between 1976 and 2008, with supplementary background material and a few unpublished extras. Some stories originally appeared in adults-only underground comix; for that reason this book carries a “for mature readers” warning.
The included iPad EPUB edition of the book also links to Sean Wheeler’s half-hour documentary I Must Be Important, ’Cause I’m in a Documentary! which shines a spotlight on Howard Cruse’s life and career.