Comics by LGBTQ+ Comics Creators
Celebrate Pride Month with this list of Comics by LGBTQ+ Comics Creators authors and/or artists. Annotations adapted from the publisher's description unless otherwise noted. (Updated May 2022)
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The Life and Times of Butch Dykes
Author and artist Eloisa Aquino presents these icons against heteronormativity in a good-humored homage, showing how the courage to be true to yourself can spark the sort of work that changes the world.
Format: Book
Availability: Available
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Sexuality
Barker and Scheele (Queer: A Graphic History) team up again for an illustrated explainer that aims to deconstruct Western myths that cast heteronormative, monogamous sex as morally superior. -- Publishers Weekly
Format: Graphic Novel
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The Secret to Superhuman Strength
From the author of Fun Home, a profoundly affecting graphic memoir of Bechdel's lifelong love affair with exercise.
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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Grease Bats
Grease Bats stars Andy, a trans genderqueer individual who is both tough and loving, and their BFF Scout, an all-feelings-all-the-time mistake-maker.
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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920London
North of London, 2005. A doomed romance between an emo kid and a scene kid. More than friends, less than lovers, they're trying to grow shrooms before the world ends. Send help. Solo graphic novel debut from Remy Boydell (The Pervert), fully painted in watercolor.
Format: Downloadable Graphic Novel
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When I Arrived at the Castle
Emily Carroll has fashioned a rich gothic horror charged with eroticism that doesn't just make your skin crawl, it crawls into it.
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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The Times I Knew I Was Gay
From her first communion to her first girlfriend via a swathe of self-denial, awkward encounters, and everyday courage, Ellie tells her story through gorgeous illustrations.
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: All copies in use
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Stuck Rubber Baby
A groundbreaking graphic novel that draws on Howard Cruse's experience coming of age and coming out in 1960s Birmingham, Alabama. Just in time for its 25th anniversary, this rich and moving tale of identity and resistance is back in print--complete with unpublished archival material and a behind-the-scenes look at the author's creative process.
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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Rock Steady
Forney follows up her graphic memoir, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, & Me, with a practical guide to understanding, navigating, and managing bipolar disorder (and mood disorders in general).
Format: Graphic Novel
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Fetch
When Nicole Georges was 16 she adopted Beija, a dysfunctional shar-pei/corgi mix—a troublesome combination of tiny and attack, just like teenaged Nicole herself. For the next 15 years, Beija would be the one constant in her life.
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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