Queer and Trans Comics by Dylan Edwards
Behold, three more installments of my series of the Most Worst Puns I am able to muster! These will be the last Taxo Unbos for an unspecified amount of time, as I will be shifting gears to coloring Chapter 13 of Valley of the Silk Sky, which I expect will keep me pretty occupied. You can keep up with my progress on that by following my Patreon!
But now, some terrible puns. Click through to their individual pages for yet more punnery and shenanigans:
Cheers,
Dylan
Yes, I do indeed continue to inflict new Taxonomically Unbound comics upon the world! Just in case you had the temerity to forget, these are my single-panel comics featuring the Most Worst Puns I have managed to devise for your amusement and/or suffering.
I sometimes even remember to add them to this, my very own website that I have maintained since the turn of the century. But if you are, for some reason, desperate to see them as they drop, your best bet is to follow my Patreon, which you can do for free! Or you can pay me, that would be super neat, honestly. I do always appreciate folks who wanna toss a buck or two my way! But I do usually post new finished work as free posts, so feel free to follow in whatever way suits you best.
Meanwhile …
As noted in the poster, I’ll be exhibiting at the fourth annual DeCAF, the Denver Comics and Arts Festival!
The show has a new location this year, Schoolyard, located at 1115 Acoma Street. It’s on Saturday, May 9th, and runs from 11AM – 7PM, and it’s free to attend! If you’re gonna be in the Denver area, hit us up and check out all the indie comic goodness on display.
So! That’s what’s up at the moment.
Cheers,
Dylan
After getting derailed by other projects, in particular my newest zine collecting my earliest trans comic offerings, I have resumed my quest to offer more frivolous pun comics for my erstwhile series Taxonomically Unbound.
But first, may I point you to this Patreon blog post about my 25th Tranniversary. I thought it would be worthwhile to share a piece I wrote about navigating the experience of trying to access trans health care 25 years ago, and my impressions of the dangers we navigate today based on my experiences in existing as trans for the last quarter century.
Anyhow, on to the new Taxonomically Unbound comics!
I actually made these a couple of months back and had posted them to my Patreon, but I’ve finally gotten around to adding them here on the ol’ website like it’s the early aughts. I’ve also got some new ones in the works, so there is more yet to come!
Here they are for your convenience, or hit up the Taxo Unbo page for yet more pun absurdity.
Cheers,
Dylan
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:
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
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):
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
For the most part, I’ve just been posting my fan art creations on social media (Instagram, Tumblr, and Twitter specifically), but this one I wanted to show here as a before/after thing, comparing my first ever effort at digital coloring with my most recent. So here’s the just-completed Izzy in Drag piece, line art done in natural media, coloring done in Photoshop:
I would say that’s a bit of an improvement, no? To be fair, I did install a bunch of digital brushes in the intervening 13 years, so I had more texture options for coloring Izzy. Even so, I have learned a lot about flatting and clipping masks and transparency and so forth.
This is all self-taught, by the way. I would love to take a class in digital coloring someday, but it ain’t happened yet.
Cheers,
Dylan
Yes indeed, I have a new Taxo Unbo with which to torment you, and it may be found in these places:
Speaking of punnery, that there is the title of the all-cat art show I’m in, and it opens this very weekend. My pieces in this show come from the Feeping Creatures side of my artistic output, so expect monsters and cuteness.
Come to Spectra Art Space at 7 PM on Saturday, February 9 to party at the opening reception and revel in the feline art.
Spectra is located at 1836 South Broadway in Denver, CO. Come to the thing!
Continuing with my efforts to add comics to my website that were originally published elsewhere, here’s the piece I originally created for the 2018 Draw Out the Vote project from Oni Press. Cartoonists from each of the 50 states discussed political issues relevant to their state, and why voting is an important part of addressing those issues. My comic focused on LGBT issues in Colorado.
Anyhow, this is now posted to the here in the Autobio Comics section of good ol’ Studio NDR.
But what of 2019, you ask?
I made a public Patreon post going into some detail regarding my comic makin’ plans for this year.
The TL;DR: version is more Valley of the Silk Sky, including a new minicomic, a new issue of QAT Person, and further pun horrors with Taxonomically Unbound.
Anyway, I seem to be having yet more website issues, so I guess I’ll drop everything and go troubleshoot that now. Cool!
Dylan
Just as you feared, there is a new Taxonomically Unbound, and it lurks in these locations:
There is also, as you may have gleaned from the headline, a brang new Valley of the Silk Sky website:
This is, as I have probably mentioned before, a replacement for the VotSS tumblr website. While the tumblr one still exists, this new one is self-hosted and therefore less subject to the whims of content moderation algorithms.
It is also much easier to navigate, given that the underlying architecture is more conducive to separating comics from appendices from random art. Also the tagging is actually useful, since it’s not mixed in with all the rest of tumblr’s tags.
ANYway. I’ll continue to post VotSS comic pages here on Studio NDR, but, as before, extra content like appendices, concept art, character portraits, and all that biz will live over there.
Cheers,
Dylan
Yes indeed, the latest in Taxonomically Unbound punnery may be found here:
Meanwhile, I’ve been working away on the new Valley of the Silk Sky website, which is still not ready for your eyeballs, but it is definitely starting to take shape. Turns out I’ve created a fair amount of content for this series, and it’s gonna take awhile to get it all put in place.
Speaking of Valley of the Silk Sky, if you’ve been wanting to get the digital edition from ComiXology but have been holding off for whatever reason, it might interest you to learn that it’s on sale for 50% off at the moment. You can grab both collections here:
The Long Run: Part One
The Long Run: Part Two
Cheers,
Dylan