An Office Bitch I'm particularly proud of

Hey all,

This is from two weeks ago, but I LOVE it! This was one of those strips that just kind of came out of nowhere and really hit a chord with me (and my housemates, who it's almost entirely based off of). The original The New Gay  post is here, or see below:

It's in color, too, which is a rarity. I almost never work in color, but I decided that the strip may be a bit too boring and hard to read if it was just black and white. For example, the taco seasoning bag would be hard to understand if it didn't have the yellow taco shells right on the bag, standing out against the red background.

Review of Gay Kid

Rob McMonigal, the comic aficionado behind Panel Patter recently reviewed Gay Kid. I think it's a really accurate review (except I would rather call my style "loose" or "casual" instead of "basic!"), and I'm glad to hear that Gay Kid is making an impression as a comic describing the times before you come out. One of the reasons that I wrote it is because that was the time that felt the most lonely. I mean, once I had a name for what was going on (Gay Kid #1) and had processed it (upcoming Gay Kids), I at least was not freaking out about what I was thinking.

A lot of gay comics (especially about being a gay youth) are focused on what happened after one comes out. But what happens before it is just as interesting. It's all about how kids make sense of the world. Like in the City Kids strip in Candy or Medicine Vol. 10, kids have crazy way of explaining things. Being gay is just one more thing you don't understand, that you try to understand by creating a story for it. I had a friend in college who thought that you fell asleep when ants came out of your ears and dropped bits of sand onto your eyelids until they became heavy (some funky interpretation of the "sandman"). Gay Kid will hopefully give some insight into this thought process.

more Suggestion Box

Here are two more pages from the new Suggestion Box. Enjoy!