Subscribe to Read | $0.00
Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!
Quick and Easy Sign Up!
It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.
Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!
Quick and Easy Sign Up!
It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.
Read Anywhere and on Any Device!
Rate this book!
Write a review?
This was good. It's an anthology featuring short comics from various creators who've been published through Prism Comics Press, which is a publisher focused on LGBTQ+ creators. Most of the stories are autobiographical. Some are about being gay, but most are actually about being cartoonists. A few of the stories are about other things, as well. But being gay and making comics are really the two common themes. Most of the stories are pretty interesting. Some are weaker than others. There's a wide
In the interest of transparency, I supported the kickstarter campaign for this project and I'm friends with some of the contributors.I was excited to see how the anthology would turn out, and aside from a few cosmetic issues involving proofreading, it is a wonder. With over 50 contributors, the variety of queer voices and experience astonishes. With so many elements there was the risk of the collection feeling disjointed, but editors (and contributors) Jon Macy and Tara Madison Avery have given
Excellent introduction to the work of a number of LGBTQ+ comics creators working in the comics field today. As with any book with numerous contributors, I found some of the art and storytelling pretty spectacular, while other pieces didn't really grab me (there were a few too many pieces revolving around comics creators meeting each other at comic cons to really hold my attention, for example). But I will definitely be looking for more work by a number of these creators and as someone who has fo...
Alphabet, a 372-page full color queer comics anthology, is a celebration of the diversity and range of the LGBTQAIU cartooning community (yeah, I just learned about the AIU part recently myself). On the diversity front the book is especially successful; also, being such a huge tome, editors Jon Macy and Tara Madison Avery managed to keep it all cohesive, with the stories flowing together nicely in little thematic cycles. I especially like the little quartet of artier pieces by talented young new...
741.5973 A4566 2015
very entertaining, talent galore--
I really found this collection to be all over the place in terms of quality. There were a few comics I enjoyed. Maybe this should have been marketed as an anthology FOR comic book writers, because most of the comics were actually about being a comic book writer and, as someone who doesn't write comics, I got a bit bored with that theme.
Great sampler of a huge range of voices in queer comics.
What can I say about this book that might possibly interest you in it? If you are curious about LGBTQ cartoonists this is an excellent collection of cartoonists of all ages and persuasions. I have been reading and collecting LGBTQ comics long before they were part of an alphabet soup, as they are these days. Happily, this collection includes some of the cartoonists I grew up on, such as Howard Cruz, and Jennifer Camper, and Roberta Gergory, as well as newer ones, who I have discovered by going t...
