Queer and Trans Comics by Dylan Edwards
It’s Wednesday, and that means a new Politically InQueerect episode on Tapastic. This is the main storyline from issue #2, remastered to be in full color (and more easily readable on modern monitors). It’s a good starting place for new readers, so jump in if you haven’t taken the plunge. And even if you have, please do feast your eyeballs upon the colorized version.
I’ve started publishing Politically InQueerect as a weekly webcomic over at Tapastic. Initially this will consist of existing strips (though some, like today’s offering, are remastered to be in color and to be easier to read on ::cough:: modern HD screens). Eventually, if all goes according to plan (and when does it not?), this will segue into brand-new content.
I’ve also set up a Politically InQueerect Facebook page so you can keep abreast of developments in yer FB feed. Pop over and give ’em a “like” if you like.
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PIQue will post every Wednesday on Tapastic. This is a great way to rediscover the series, or to get a friend hooked. Please share with your pals, and see you next Wednesday!
Cheers,
Dylan
I have two separate events in San Francisco this week, so if you’re in town you should stop by (they’re both FREEEEEEEEE!)
Noe Valley Word Week LGBT panel
March 18, 2013
7:00 – 9:00 PM
Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/487609354630841/?ref=2
QU33R sneak peek reading & popup art show
March 19, 2013
7:00 – 9:00 PM
Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/351342174984473/?ref=2
You can find more deets about both on my Appearances page, or by checking out the linked Facebook page invites (feel free to RSVP yerself – they should both be public events).
Earlier this week, the Lambda Literary Foundation released the list of nominees for the 25th Annual Lambda Literary Awards, and Transposes was nominated for Transgender Nonfiction. The awards ceremony will be June 3, 2013, so I’ll let you know then if I won or not. But it’s a thrill and an honor to be nominated. Here’s the Northwest Press statement about the nomination, wherein you may learn what I plan to wear to the awards.
Also nominated, in the LGBT Anthology category, was No Straight Lines, the Fantagraphics tome in which I have three cartoons. So that’s very exciting also, and huge congrats to Justin Hall and all the other contributors for the nod!
Okay, back to packing and trying to keep the cats out of the boxes.
Cheers,
Dylan
There’s an interview with me in the most recent issue of Outlook Columbus (the March 2013 ish, it so happens). If you click on the “Current Issue” box and go to page 38, you ought be able to read it just fine.
Meanwhile, I am in the process of moving, so it’s going to be quiet here for a bit. Fear not, I shall return with frabjuous new art once the dust and the boxes have settled.
Cheers,
Dylan
Crazy busy this week getting ready for STAPLE! The Independent Media Expo, which is now upon us. I have to leave in, like, 20 minutes to go set up. So if you’re in Austin and want to grab a copy of Transposes, or check out some art for my upcoming TransTransformers story for QU33R, or you need some feeps, head on down.
Cheers,
Dylan
A quick cellphone shot of some in-progress inks for my TransTransformers story for QU33R. I’m nearly done with ’em, just a page and a third left to go. Then it’s time to color this thang!
Meanwhile, I have a whole passel of events coming up in March. First up is STAPLE! The Independent Media Expo in Austin, TX. Once again, I expect it shall be a fine extravaganza of indie media from Austin and beyond. Want some TransTransformers prints? I’ll have them at the show for your gender-bending robot needs. I will also have copies of Transposes, of course, as well as original art and feeps.
After that I’m off to California for a pair of back-to-back events in the San Francisco area. First up, on March 18, is the Noe Valley WordWeek LGBT panel. I’ll be doing a reading from Transposes, alongside other LGBT authors reading from their books. It’s being held at a brew pub, so really you have no excuse not to go.
Then, on March 19, I’ll be in the Mission District of SF for a reading/art event at Alley Cat Books, also in conjunction with several other creators. I’ll read something different from what I read the previous night, and the other panelists will be different each night, so come to both! It’s a different show each night.
For more specifics on the where and the when for each of these things, hit up my Appearances Page.
See you soon!
Dylan
I’m always amused by the search strings that folks type into the Google machine to find this place. Today’s winner was “Jazz/Prowl.” I really had not figured on Transformers slash, though I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised, what with Rule 34 and all. Still, people. What the heck is wrong with you.
Nevertheless, I have a little gem for you sick perverts who are into that sort of thing. In the course of my research into G1 Transformers for my QU33R anthology piece, I watched the first several episodes of season 1, and somehow accidentally wound up with screen shots of a particularly suggestive moment of tenderness between Hound and Spike (and yes, these are unaltered stills direct from the show).
Again, somehow by accident, these images became randomly assembled into the strip you see here. I’m sure it’s just a bizarre coincidence that they should seem to suggest something salacious, but you know what they say about monkeys and typewriters and Shakespeare!
ANYWAY. I am inking away on the comic this was all in aid of, and hope to have more progress photos to show you soon.
Now, let us never speak of Transformers slash again.
I’ll be heading up to Dallas this weekend for the Sci-Fi Expo. I’ll mostly be bringing my Feeping Creatures stuff, but I’ll also have some preview art and prints for the new comic I’m working on, a short story for QU33R (the new anthology from Robert Kirby) about kids who gender-swap their toys (you know, just in case you missed any of the several previous posts).
If you’re going to be in Dallas this weekend, swing by and check it out!
I’ve created a landing page for material related to my QU33R anthology story. It now includes the current version of page 1 (pencils, as of this posting), as well as my character designs for the female versions of Prowl, Jazz, and Bluestreak. While these specific images are not technically part of the story that’s going to be published in QU33R, they are are finished art pieces in their own right and I wanted to show ’em off to ya. I used these designs for the actual drawings of the three lady bots that show up in the story.
If you want to learn more about how I created these designs, click through to their individual pages and read the mass of text below the image. Oh, and you may have noticed there are little “Buy Now” buttons on there as well, just in case you are so smitten by the girl incarnations of Prowl, Jazz, and Bluestreak, you feel yourself needing to own a print of them.
Next week I’ll be tabling at the Dallas Sci-Fi Expo with my Feeping Creatures menagerie, but I’ll also have the TransTransformers prints with me. So if you are going to be in Dallas, you might stop by and peep them in person.
Cheers,
Dylan