by John | Apr 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
Art by Charles Nicholas & Jon D’Agostino from First Kiss #20, 1961.
This is one of several one-panel gags that I wrote for Northwest Press’s forthcoming anthology “Anything That Loves.”
The book is being funded by a Kickstarter campaign that’s going on through Monday Apr 29, 2013 12:00am EDT.
Editor Zan Christensen describes it as “a bold new comics anthology that explores and celebrates the complex world beyond the categories of ‘gay’ and ‘straight.’
“This will be, as far as I know, the first major comics anthology focusing on sexuality outside of “gay” and “straight”. (Bisexual! Pansexual! Omnisexual! Why-are-you-so-obsessed-with-labeling-me-sexual!)”
Contributors include Kevin Boze, Ellen Forney, Erika Moen, Randall Kirby, Roberta Gregory, Stasia Kato and many more.
↓ TranscriptSCENE: A soldier talks angrily to a civilian man and woman.
SOLDIER: You’re dating? That does it! I’m breaking up with at least one of you!
Art: Charles Nicholas & Jon D’Agostino
Color: Allen Freeman
©2013 Last Kiss Inc
20.3.3.5
by John | Apr 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
This is one of several gags that I’ve done for the anthology “Anything That Loves.”
The book has some incredibly talented creators (Ellen Forney, Erika Moen, Kevin Boze, Roberta Gregory, Roberta Gregory, Stasia Kato, and more) in the lineup.
And the topic? Well, to quote from the Kickstarter campaign: A bold new comics anthology that explores and celebrates the complex world beyond the categories of “gay” and “straight”.
I normally don’t talk about my sexuality, but here goes. (Prepare to be shocked.)
I’m straight.
Yeah, I know what you were thinking. But that’s sort of the point. Most of the time we make assumptions about people’s sexual orientation, but we don’t really know.
Some people don’t fit into our assumptions. And that’s one of things this book explores.
Original art from First Kiss #2, 1958. Click to enlarge.
↓ TranscriptSCENE: In the foreground we see someone's hand flipping a coin as a woman looks on.
MAN: Heads you’re straight! Tails you’re gay!
WOMAN: But... it keeps landing on its side!
Pencils by Art Cappello Color by Allen Freeman
©2013 Last Kiss Inc
2.2.3.5
by John | Apr 6, 2013 | Blog
Art by Matt Baker from the cover of True Love Pictorial #4, 1953.
by John | Jan 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
by John | Aug 11, 2011 | Uncategorized
↓ TranscriptWOMAN: You act tough!
But underneath…
you’re soft and sensitive!
MAN IN TRENCHCOAT: %@#&!
Wear a woman’s underwear once and she thinks she knows you!
Art by Vince Colletta Studio
