Cover of Everything Dead & Dying #1, by Jacob Phillips
Everything Dead & Dying #1-5, by @tatebrombal.bsky.social and @thatjacobphillips.bsky.social.
Jack lives a good farmer life with his husband and their young daughter. When a virus turns almost everybody into zombies, including his family, Jack begins feeding...
[1/4]
#gay #comics #pub2025 #reviews
Cover to
No Saints Nor Poets #1-2, by @yozanfardino.bsky.social, @afterlaughs.bsky.social (art on #1) & @martinabelli.bsky.social (#2).
In a fantasy Venice-like city, a charming rogue and a hot, former priest deliver goods through the monster-infected waterways.
[1/3]
#gay #comics #pub2025 #reviews
Cover to All That Remains, by Anna Paßlick.
All That Remains, by Anna Paßlick.
A recently widowed aging lesbian meets a younger lesbian, who mourns the end of her own relationship, at the grave of her deceased wife.
This moving GN follows the life of the two women and their nascent friendship.
[1/2]
#lesbian #comics #pub2025 #reviews
Cover of On an Even Moon, by B. Mure
On an Even Moon, by @bmure.bsky.social.
A self-published comic about a queer couple living on a colonized moon.
This low-tech SF, feelgood story is focused on daily life and the strength of love, friendship and community.
[1/2]
#queer #comics #pub2025 #reviews
Sage ("good boy") by Quentin Zuttion.
A powerful autofiction around anxiety, depression, body image and homophobia.
The author shows himself isolating from friends, family and lovers, using his flat as a closed cocoon.
Not an easy read, but a very good one.
[1/2]
#gay #comics #pub2025 #french
The Backstagers Complete Collection, by @jamesthefourth.bsky.social & @riansygh.bsky.social.
When new student Jory decides to join the backstage group of his all-boy high school theater club, he gets new friends, a boyfriend and a whole lot of trouble:
[1/2]
#gay #trans #comics #pub2025 #reviews
Ripperland, by @thesteveorlando.bsky.social, John Harris Dunning & Alessandro Oliveri.
Doomed by Brexit, future Britain has become a Victorian-themed park. When an American tourist is found killed, police officers from both sides of the ocean must collaborate.
[1/2]
#gay #comics #pub2025 #reviews
Hello Sunshine, by @keezyyoung.bsky.social.
Closeted jock Noah has fallen in love with artistic Alex.
But the troubled boy suddenly disappears and only his boyfriend, his brother Jamie, Jamie's girlfriend Izzy & their childhood friend Sky keep looking for him.
[1/3]
#queer #comics #pub2025 #reviews
La Mise à mort du tétras lyre (The Killing of the Black Grouse), by David Combet.
A beautiful GN where a young, gay man is shown in two periods: as a kid, spending time camping in the mountains with his father, and as an adult, still trying to find his way,...
[1/2]
#gay #comics #pub2025 #french
Lovers' Kiss, by Akimi Yoshida.
The French version of a 1995 manga unreleased in English.
Three love stories among high-school boys and girls, one straight, one gay and one lesbian.
Built in Rashomon fashion, the stories are enriched chapter by...
[1/3]
#gay #lesbian #comics #pub2025 #reviews
Smell, by Nagabe
Smell, by @mucknagabe.bsky.social.
A charming tale of budding love among high-schoolers, with a pervy bent, as Joseph, an easy-going guy, finds Noy, a timid boy, sniffing his shirt. What follows is a journey of slow-going discovery in scents.
[1/2]
#gay #comics #pub2025 #reviews
Le Bonheur (Happiness), by Corentin Garrido.
A new French pocket-sized romance/post-apo/fantasy story full of poetry, with sweet and delicate art.
A young man survives the end of the world when the hunky incarnation of War takes a shine to him.
Excerpt at link.
#gay #comics #french #pub2025 #reviews
Gaysians, by @mikecurato.bsky.social.
A dense and psychologically nuanced portrait of a group of Asian gay friends.
The complexities of friendship, love, multiple identities, and homophobia & transphobia are examined over 400 pages drawn...
[1/3]
#gay #trans #comics #pub2025 #reviews
Strange Bedfellows, by @arielries.bsky.social.
In the future, humans live far away from a damaged Earth, on another planet where most kids have powers.
Oberon is a powerless young gay, trans guy trying to find a new path after a bad breakup.
[1/2]
#trans #gay #pub2025 #comics #reviews
The Fool, The Absolute Madwoman, by Vivian Nguyen (@laweyd.bsky.social).
A twisted romance with magic/thriller aspects, this is the tale of Alea, a young woman who becomes obsessed with another woman she gets glimpses of: a coat, a pair of earrings...
[1/2]
#lesbian #comics #pub2025 #reviews
Spent, by @alisonbechdel.bsky.social.
Her new book is a funny, pretend autobiography, with a fictional version of Bechdel - friends with the even more fictional aged characters from Dykes To Watch Out For - who grapples with the contradictions of modern life.
[1/3]
#queer #comics #pub2025 #reviews
To Broadway, by Maurane Mazars.
The English version of a French GN, set in the late 50s. It follows a young, gay German dancer who's torn between the high art of modern dance in Europe and the popular art of American Broadway shows, which hold personal meaning.
[1/3]
#gay #comics #pub2025 #reviews
Summer Shadows, by John Harris Dunning and Ricardo Cabral
Summer Shadows by @johnharrisdunning.bsky.social and Ricardo Cabral.
A young man comes to a Greek island, looking for his ex-boyfriend, while a Greek cop looks for a missing person. Both gravitate toward a nearby yacht, whose seductive hosts hide an awful secret.
[1/2]
#gay #comics #pub2025 #reviews
Cover to Minor Arcana Vol. 1, by Jeff Lemire
Minor Arcana Vol. 1, by Jeff Lemire (creator of Sweet Tooth).
A new ongoing series which follows Theresa, a lesbian who goes back to her hometown to take care of her sick, tarot-reading, distant mother.
[1/2]
#lesbian #comics #pub2025 #reviews
Peep Stoner, by Barrett Stanley
Peep Stoner, by Barrett Stanley.
A 19th-century pretended stone seer is employed by an unpleasant, wealthy landowner to find a mine, but what he finds is a handsome man.
The atmospheric art and the strong work on body language enhance the direct, effective story.
[1/2]
#gay #comics #pub2025 #reviews
Roihu, a new anthology by Finnish artists.
A lot of the entries are about people who don't fit, one way of the other. But one of the short stories, specifically queer, is about a young teenager who seems to be the only gay guy in a remote village in Lapland.
[1/2]
#gay #comics #pub2025 #reviews
I did make it out but I would have no issues with roaming the corridors of the OU whispering the virtues of #pub2025
