What do you look for in a queer indie comic? Five queer comics creators answer this question and recommend some comics
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Noted by Lx Leckford .Australian painter Peter Churcher, Shower Screen VIII, 2019. Oil on canvas, 195 x 114 cm.
One of those landscapes that looks more like an alien landscape than the alien landscapes of Star Trek and Star Wars: vineyards in the volcanic soils of Lanzarote with the only greenery being young vines in these bowl-like shelters from the wind.
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Noted by Lx Leckford .Illustration from Marcel Schwob's Vie Imaginaires by Georges Barbier (1929)
Old House, New House, North House and now West House have all reached capacity. We’re selling rings blessed at the shrine to raise funds to build a new one—as soon as we think of a name. Oh, this thing? My daughter Rixx made it. She says it's a chalice. Not for sale, I'm afraid: I'm keeping it.
Sean Patrick Watters shoots Craig Doty in an stylish, minimalist fashion shoot
Slippery Creatures is the first of three novels by K. J. Charles about ex-soldier-turned-bookseller Will Darling and disgraced aristocrat Kim Secretan as they tangle with spies, hoodlums, Bolsheviks, and club secretaries in 1920s London.
Laid-Back Camp (also called Yurucamp) is a Japanese anime series about friends who go camping in extremely civilized campsites with splendid views of Mt Fuji. This mellow series is about learning new skills, making friends, and the joy of doing things together and the satisfaction of going it alone.
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk and Robot #1) is a novella by Becky Chambers about the collaborative society that grew out of the chaos when, centuries ago, all the factory robots simultaneously became self-aware and vanished into the wilderness, never to be seen again—seen through the eyes of an itinerant tea monk.
A warm, comforting read and a delightful answer to the question of how do you write a story set in a utopia.