My name is Danika and today I wanted to talk about my queer comic collection!
I say my queer comics collection as if that's one part of my comics collection,
but when I pulled out all of my queer comics, the only thing left on the shelf
were two serious: one of which probably could have counted as queer books.
(Those were Unwritten by Mike Carey, which is one of my favorites, and Y: the Last Man.)
All my other comics are queer. So I just thought I would run through them
and tell you a little bit about each of them. I think I've read about half of the
ones that I own. I'll start with the ones I've read, and then I'll tell you about
the ones I'm excited about. I had to start with my Buffy comics, which I
only kept the Willow and Tara one. Because if you don't know, Tara is my
favorite fictional character of all time. And even though these comics are not
particularly memorable, I did get it signed by Amber Benson, so of course I'm
gonna keep this. Also, Willow and Tara comics! They're so cute! Also, something
that some people might think doesn't count:
my Sailor Moon manga. I do have the entire series, including the Sailor V
manga. Some people will say "That's not queer comics," but I say, first of all, you
can't discount how amazing Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune are, and how integral
they are to the queer women collective consciousness. Also, Usagi is bi, I'm
sorry, she sees a pretty girl and her eyes turn into hearts: she's bi. She is.
She kisses Haruka. She likes it. She is not straight. In the same vein is
Revolutionary Girl Utena. I love the TV series, I love the movie. The manga,
frankly, is just okay, but I feel like I have to have the whole collection.The manga is
not as blatantly queer as the movie or even the show is, but it's still there
and it's especially there in the standalone manga. I have a lot of
theories about Utena, and part of the manga tellings of it fits into my theory
of kind of the cycle of Utena, so I have to keep the books even if, honestly,
they're not nearly as good as the show. I have my little collection of Rosalarian
books: Meaty Yogurt, which is the least queer, but it does have a lesbian
side character. Two of her porn comics: Eat Me and Darlin' It's Betta Down Where
It's Wetta. This is a lesbian porn mermaid comic, so if you feel like you
would like that, you would like this! Eat Me is a super
weird, surreal, literal food porn. It gets really creepy in places. And, of course,
the comic that started it all: Yu+Me: Dream. I followed this comic for many
years online as a webcomic. When Yu+Me:Dream was
coming out online, it was one of the few queer web comics out there. It started
off in this manga-inspired style. It was pretty simple, and that was pretty
typical of web comics at the time. By the time the series finished, it was
experimenting with a whole bunch of different styles. Rosalarian's style had
gotten much more complex and sophisticated, and she tries so many
things in this comic. I loved it as it was coming out, and I've been following
all of Rosalarian's work online and in physical book form since. I wish I had I
Was Kidnapped by Lesbian Pirates From Outer Space, but unfortunately pretty
much no one has that because the rights were basically stolen from her, so I will
always mourn that, but I do have the rest of hers. And of course I have Bitch
Planet. This is a super feminist, amazing comic with some queer content as
well. If you haven't heard of it, I highly, highly recommend you check it out. If you
can get the single issues, they have the essays in the back, which are great,
but they're also great in trade format. And of course Lumberjanes, which you are
probably familiar with. I have volumes 1, 2, and 5. I did have all of them, but then I
gave them to my niece and I haven't rebought them for myself yet. This is a really fun series
about girls at summer camp, and it has a lot of fantasy and adventure, lots of
queer content. It's super cute. I actually haven't read all of these yet. I think I
only read the first volume, which is wild, because I love them, and I feel like I'm
just saving them? I'll have to buy up the whole series and binge read them at some
point. I think the problem is that I always want to read them in the summer
and then summer comes around and I have other books that I feel like I have to
read right then, and I forget. But these are good all the time: I don't need to
save them for summer. Supermutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki was also a
webcomic at first. I really loved this book, but you should go in kind of expecting
a lot of stand alone panels with sort of a thread
through them, and not a traditional linear story. There isn't a ton of queer
content, but what's there is really poignant, and it is this main character
on the cover who is queer. It's super strange, and feminist, and funny, and
sarcastic, and dark and I love it. Then I have Jem and the Holograms, which is such
a fun book. It's just totally bright and positive. One of the girls is a lesbian who
has a relationship with the girl from a rival band, and they are adorable. It's also
super diverse I love Sophie Campbell and her illustration style. She is
especially great at drawing women with lots of different body types, and this is
just my perfect cotton candy book: it just makes really happy. Again, I have not
caught up with the series, and I need to, because I love it. I have trouble keeping
up with series. I actually don't think there are any book series, comics or
otherwise, that I am currently following. I generally just wait 'til they're all
out, because that's how bad I am with keeping up with things. Sugar Town is a
recent addition to my queer comics collection, and I love it. This is another
really sweet happy book. It is a queer, poly, BDSM, relationship, but mostly I
love it because everyone is very kind and understanding of each other, and even
though they do struggle with things like jealousy, they talk it out,
and they are very kind to each other about it and that's lovely!
And of course one of my favorite books of all time. This was a recent read, but I
just fell in love with it so hard. The One Hundred Nights of Hero, and this is a
retelling of A Thousand and One Nights. And it is queer, it is feminist, the
illustrations are just beautiful, there are lots of different page layouts, I
love the color scheme. It's unexpectedly funny in that sort of dry wit way. I
can't really explain how much I love this book because it's so over-the-top. I
actually read like three pages and then just had to put it down because I
physically couldn't handle how much I loved. It my heart was racing from how
much I was in love with this book. I don't think I can give any higher praise
than that? So just check it out. Onto the books that I haven't read yet.
I have this habit of supporting especially queer comics
anthologies on Kickstarter and then not actually reading the books even though
I'm super excited about them. The first one was this: Girly by Josh Lesnick.
Before Yu+Me: Dream, there was Girly the webcomic, and although I spent
I believe more than a hundred dollars on this, I have not read it. I read Cute
Wendy, which came with it, which is sort of the prequel, and it was very, very
strange, and I remember I read Girly the webcomic and it was pretty different
from Cute Wendy, so I didn't love this, but I'm sure I would like Girly a lot
more because I did read some of the webcomics as they were coming out and I enjoyed them,
obviously, because I supported the Kickstarter. But for some reason this has been
sitting on my shelf for more than five years! I don't know why. I have a problem.
I also have a couple of manga that I haven't read yet: Red String, and I believe—I could be wrong—
but I believe this was a webcomic first as well. This is actually the second
volume, but it's the volume that has a queer couple, so I just skipped the
first one. Also Strawberry Panic. This is the novels, not the manga, but I read the
manga and I enjoyed it. I thought it was fun. But it felt like there should be
more to the series, so I wanted to pick up the novels and see if those fill in the
gaps. I also got some individual comics. My local comic book shop was having a
sale where all of their single issue comics were a dollar, everything in the
store that was staplebound was a dollar, which was amazing, and I picked up
a stack of things to try, and some of the queer ones were Moonstruck by Grace
Ellis, which I've heard really good things about. They only had issues 2 and
3, but I bought the first one as a digital comic, so I am excited to read
those. Also Space Battle Lunchtime, which I have heard is really cute, and I love all-
ages comics, I love all-ages queer comics especially. I also have the Legend of
Bold Riley, which originally I heard only amazing things about, and then I
read one criticism of it, and that kind of scared me off, so I haven't read it,
but I feel like that's a little bit silly because I'm sure I will still enjoy it.
I also have Shadoweyes, and I don't actually think this one has queer
content, but it's by Sophie Campbell who did Jem and the Holograms, and I love her art,
and she is a trans woman. She also did a lesbian zombie comic that I loved.
And also I'm just hoping this has queer content that I'm not aware of, but
either way, I'm sure this will be great. This is about a girl who can transform
into this creature she calls Shadoweyes and becomes a sort of superhero, but then
she can't transform back again. This is Fresh Romance, another one I supported
through Kickstarter, and it's a romance comics anthology, including queer
romances. Shadoweyes was also a buy from Kickstarter. I don't know why I am so
tempted by queer comics on Kickstarter. I think because of the urgency of, like, if
I personally don't buy them, they won't exist, and that would be a tragedy, so I
am obliged morally to buy these. Here's one that I didn't actually buy online: Princeless.
This actually came in to the store that I work at. When I got it, I was like, "This
is so great: I'm gonna price it higher," and then after I priced it, I realized I—
it was so great, I was going to have to buy it, and why did I price it that high? I
also have all of them in digital format, which one of the writers sent to me for
review, which is amazing, and I need to get to those, because as I just said, all-ages
queer comics are kind of my favorite. One of my newest additions is As the Crow
Flies by Melanie Gilman. I've been filling this comic online. I haven't read
it in the physical format yet. Melanie Gilman has this amazing pencil crayon
illustration style. It's really beautiful and detailed and so time-consuming. As the
Crow Flies is a book about a queer brown girl going to this summer camp that is
basically a feminist Christian camp, and she kind of realizes that she doesn't
feel like she belongs there: pretty much everyone else is white and straight, but
she does become friends with a trans girl named Sydney. Pockets is sort of a
Sydney backstory. They are another webcomic artist that I have been
following and supporting online for a while. I've bought some of their little
zine-style comics. There's also Sweet Rock which is a 24 hour comic that they did
that's like a queer fairy tale, basically. Everything Melanie Gilman does is
fantastic. I also love reading their diary-style comics that they post on
their patreon and Twitter. I definitely recommend checking them out and everything that they do.
And of course there's the Beyond comic. This is anthology that I also supported
on Kickstarter. Why have I not read it? I don't know! It looks amazing.
I paid for it. I don't know what I'm doing. Here's another great Kickstarter
buy: Power and Magic, the queer witch comics anthology. These are also all people of
color. I am so grateful that we live in a time where an anthology like this can
exist and can get the funding to really be produced in this beautiful format and
reach it audience, because I think it's only recently that that has been
possible. A mainstream publisher would think this is too niche, that people
wouldn't want it, and that's not true all. This got completely funded and
quite a bit more, I think, on Kickstarter, and I know that there's another volume
that's either already come out or it's coming out, and that's what I really love
about Kickstarter and other crowdfunding campaigns is it can make things like
this possible. Another one that has just arrived:
Tabula Idem which is a queer tarot comics anthology. I came at the cutest little ex
libris that I have ever seen. I also bought the set which comes with a little
pack of tarot cards. I don't believe it was a complete deck. I'm very excited
about that. I don't really use tarot cards, but I am very intrigued by them,
especially the sort of storytelling potential in them. So that is my queer
comics collection. Let me know if you've read any of these and what you thought
of them. Also let me know if you'd like to see any similar videos to this about
other parts of my queer book collection. And thank you for watching!
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