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NEW ZINE – TrannyToons Presents: Annotated Trans Comics of the Early ’00s

NEW ZINE – TrannyToons Presents: Annotated Trans Comics of the Early ’00s published on

TL;DR: You can now snag a copy of my new zine from my Ko-Fi shop! Neat!

Cover art for the zine edition of TrannyToons Presents: Annotated Trans Comics of the Early 00s by Dylan NDR Edwards

I first started making trans comics over 25 years ago, and while some have seen publication in anthologies here and there, I didn’t actually have any kind of collected print version of my very earliest works. I don’t even have them on my website anymore; I’d taken them down when I streamlined this site to be more of a portfolio and less of a giant dump of literally every comic I’d ever created. The art style of these early comics doesn’t reflect my current style, and over the years the topics I’d covered in them have drifted out of contemporary relevance.

But I’m a strong believer in archiving artifacts of marginalized communities. Jokes about binding from a quarter century ago might not be relevant to a young trans person’s experience today, but it might well be of historical interest to a young trans person who wants to know more about what trans folks of previous generations had navigated.

So I decided to put together a zine of those old comics, but with annotations to offer more context for those now-outdated topics. Explanations of deprecated terminology, cultural practices that have fallen by the wayside, and why I was mad at Norah Vincent in 2001.

photo of an interior spread from TrannyToons Presents: Annotated Trans Comics of the Early 00s by Dylan NDR Edwards, showing black-and-white comics with lots of text explaining cultural artifacts of trans culture from 25 years ago when these comics were originally created

You can now obtain a copy of this zine for your very own self! It’s available in my Ko-Fi shop, and, of course, at any show I’m tabling at. Hooray!

Cheers,

Dylan

New Taxonomically Unbound comics have arrived!

New Taxonomically Unbound comics have arrived! published on

As previously threatened, I have added several new Taxonomically Unbound comics to this here website. So if you need some thoroughly frivolous puns and other silly jokes, hit up that link! Here’s one of the new ones, for your edification:

Taxonomically Unbound comic: A cheesy disguise leads to a queso mistaken identity

See? Utterly absurd ridiculosity.

I’ve been posting these incrementally on my Patreon, so if you’d like to see them as they come out, that’s probably the most reliable method just at the moment. I’ve been doing them as free posts, but obviously you’re more than welcome to throw me some dollars if you are so inclined. It does genuinely help push me to keep doing these.

Anyhow, I have lots more puns to make comics out of, so stay tuned for more!

Cheers,

Dylan

New stuff in the works!

New stuff in the works! published on

I have absolutely fallen off the wagon as far as updating my website goes, but I am indeed working on new things and have slowly begun sharing them on my Patreon. I’ll add the new Taxonomically Unbound comics here as well just as soon as I remember how to do that (it’s complicated here under the hood).

I’ve also been working on a new zine, a collection of my earliest trans comics, with annotations to note the ways trans culture has shifted and changed in the quarter century since I came out. This zine will debut at Pride in Panels, a queer comics convention with free admission being held at the San Francisco Public Library’s main branch on February 15, 2026. Here, for your edification, is the cover of the new book (whose contents I am still refining down to the last typo):

book cover for TrannyToons: Annotated Trans Comics of the Early 00s, by Dylan Edwards

ANYWAY. Sorry about the radio silence. 2025 was kind of a lot, as you may perhaps be aware if you know anything of what has been going on in America, which probably you do. It’s been hard to focus on things like “remember to update website.”

But I’m very much looking forward to the Pride in Panels show, and will try to remember to add other shows to my events calendar as they get confirmed!

Cheers,

Dylan

Saving queer history from the memory hole

Saving queer history from the memory hole published on
LGBTQ editorial cartoons

From 2004-2005, I did a weekly editorial cartoon on queer topics of the day for the Texas Triangle (later rebranded as TXT Newsmagazine). In 2017 I put together a collected edition of these cartoons, mostly for archival purposes. I didn’t think a book of comics about topical issues from many years ago was going to sell gangbusters, and I was right. It’s by far my worst-selling book. But I still felt like it was important to keep this material available, especially as queer newspapers around the country went into decline and ceased publication altogether.

When I reread these comics as I assembled the collection, I was struck by how much Trumpism was merely a natural progression from Bushism. And so the value of archiving this material increased: a two-year timeline of proto-Trump Republicanism that was never going to be preserved in any fashion if I didn’t preserve it myself.

One thing the right-wing Christians who funded Project 2025 want to do is to label all mention of queer and trans people as pornography so it can be banned as Bad For The Children. These comics are decidedly not pornographic in any way, shape, or form, but it would still be fodder for the wave of censorship that’s coming.

There’s a push now to start archiving queer media as much as possible. This book is currently available both as a digital download and a print book. If you would like to do your own archiving, you can get it here: http://www.studiondr.com/comics/editorial-cartoons/

Cheers,

Dylan

OUT FRONT Magazine – August 2024

OUT FRONT Magazine – August 2024 published on

My comic for the August issue takes a look at the follow-on from Gay Pride (June) and Gay Wrath (July) to explore the joys of Gay Sloth.

I went ahead and posted the whole comic here this time, as it was a bit of a challenge to figure out how to excerpt it. But you can also look at it in the online version if you so desire, where you will find me on page 6: https://www.outfrontmagazine.com/august-2024-all-about-aurora/

This is going to be my last comic for OFM for the foreseeable. I’ve had a good three year run with them, but the time has come for other pursuits! And so I shall pursue. Stay tuned!

Cheers

Dylan

OUT FRONT Magazine – July 2024 – Pride Review (Aromanticism)

OUT FRONT Magazine – July 2024 – Pride Review (Aromanticism) published on

My comic for this issue gives an overview of a few of the different forms aromanticism can take. Often conflated with asexuality, aro is its own separate thing. The fact that the two often present together doesn’t mean that aromantic people are automatically asexual, though. And it’s also not true that aromantic people are incapable of feeling love, even romantic love (demi aro and gray aro, for example, fall under the general aromantic umbrella).

You can read the full comic on the OFM website, where you will find me on page 6: https://www.outfrontmagazine.com/july-2024-rainbow-reflections/

Cheers,

Dylan

OUT FRONT Magazine – June 2024 – Pride

OUT FRONT Magazine – June 2024 – Pride published on

My comic for the June issue of OFM is a little autobio thing about a trans punk show I went to a couple of months ago, where I was one of the oldest members of a very queer, very trans crowd. I ponder what has changed about trans culture since I came out 24 years ago (well before many members of the audience were born).

You can read the whole comic in the digital edition here, where you will find me on page 6: https://www.outfrontmagazine.com/june-2024-queer-christmas/

Cheers,

Dylan

OUT FRONT Magazine – May 2024 issue – Queering Mental Health

OUT FRONT Magazine – May 2024 issue – Queering Mental Health published on

This issue focuses on mental health, so I decided to do an explainer comic about Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD), which (as the comic says) is characterized by intense emotional pain due to failure or feeling rejected.

This isn’t exclusive to queer and trans people by any means, but can be exacerbated by circumstances where the sufferer can expect a disproportionate level of rejection. For example, a trans person might be rejected by their family, tossed out on the street, and be unable to find housing because the landlords don’t want to rent to a trans person. The fact that the fear of rejection is atypically extreme doesn’t always mean it doesn’t have a basis in reality!

But other brain stuff can cause or worsen RSD, like Major Depressive Disorder or ADHD, where a mood regulation imbalance makes negative experiences far more intense.

You can read the full comic on page 6 of the digital edition here: https://www.outfrontmagazine.com/may-2024-queering-mental-health/

Cheers,

Dylan

OUT FRONT Magazine – April 2024 – Puff Puff

OUT FRONT Magazine – April 2024 – Puff Puff published on

The April issue of OUT FRONT Magazine has a 420 theme, so here I am remembering to post on 4-20. My comic for this issue is a drag burlesque with, shockingly, a plethora of puns. You’ll find the whole comic on page 6:
https://www.outfrontmagazine.com/april-2024-puff-puff-yaaasss/

Cheers,

Dylan

OUT FRONT Magazine – March 2024 – Homo Sweet Homo

OUT FRONT Magazine – March 2024 – Homo Sweet Homo published on

New issue of OUT FRONT Magazine, new comic from me! This one is a queer take on housing, so peep the digital edition of the mag on the OUT FRONT Magazine site and choose your domicile! You’ll find the full comic on page 6.

Cheers,

Dylan

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