Gabi Mendez
Gabi Mendez is a queer latinx comics artist and illustrator. A graduate of the School of The Art Institute of Chicago, and the Sequential Art Master's program at SCAD, she is currently working and taking on new and exciting projects! She writes a lot of silly comics, says "dude" too much, and just wants everyone to feel included.
All Ages. Lemonade Summer is a collection of coming-of-age short comics about LGBTQ and non-binary youths exploring queer identities and going on grand adventures together. Ranging form children to teens, they learning to use pronouns, learning to support each other, grow together, find and create their own communities.
Bitmap Prager
Bitmap Prager’s work is about creating safe queer spaces in art, without denying the danger of the world or suggesting pacifism in the face of inequality. Her work is about different bodies being able to occupy lived in spaces, with their own history and cultures, while making it clear you should be able to look and see yourself within those.
Her work is also about punching nazis. It is visually loud, and in all places denying of supremacy or assimilation.
”While I may hate being put on targeting lists by white supremacists targeting Jews or trans people, I can say I'm endlessly pleased that they hate my art.”
Emily Riesbeck
Emily Riesbeck started writing comics at the ripe old age of ten, when they created their first original character, the superhero Aqua Guy. Since then, they’ve been self-publishing their superhero webcomic, The Blue Valkyrie, and their debut graphic novel, It’s Your Funeral, is now out from Iron Circus Comics. Their short comics have been featured in anthologies Chubby and Local Haunts.
All Ages. MOUNTAIN is science fiction comic about grief, friendship, and understanding that even the strongest seeming people need a helping hand once in a while.
H-P Lehkonen
H-P Lehkonen was born in a tiny village called Ikkeläjärvi in the Finnish countryside. The population of the village was only 150 people and because most of them were elderly, all H-P was able to do was to draw comics. It was a lucky coincidence that they happened to love comics, and now they have built a career around them!
Being a transgender nonbinary queer person, H-P just wants to make comics that they would have wanted to see as a kid. Comics with diverse queer characters that you can relate to! H-P's stories are mostly very light hearted and humorous. It's important to H-P to have fun when reading and making comics!
Comics: Immortal Nerd, Silly Ghost
Links: Website, Twitter, Sketchblog, Patreon, Team Pärvelö
(18+) Short Gay Stories: Extended Edition
"Short Gay Stories is a collection of just what the title says and in this case Gay is used for both queer and happy!" The comic collection was made during a coming out process for being transgender, so this small book can also be seen as the author's coming out letter to the world!
Nathaniel Osollo
Nathaniel Osollo is an artist and author in Southern California. His work references itself and the ideas of art and creativity regularly. He is best known for his augmented reality book series based on the intangible characters The Shadow People.
Nathaniel just wrapped a 5-year long project called #FreeComicsFriday wherein he digitally published a comic every month for 5 years straight. In 2016, he worked with the Riverside Art Museum to install their first augmented reality exhibit based on his characters, The Shadow People. He also installed a guerrilla style exhibition of the same characters at LACMA in LA, CA.
Eyedraugh.com
Follow him at @eyedraugh
(All ages) Point of You: Where Do You Want To Be? Artist and cartoonist Nathaniel Osollo questions why one should exist as a blip in the universe. Osollo's charming People simply ask where you are, what matters to you, and what's your point of you. Yes, you.