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OUT FRONT Magazine – May 2023 issue

OUT FRONT Magazine – May 2023 issue published on
excerpt from a Dylan Edwards comic for OUT FRONT Magazine

The topic this issue is “queering mental health,” so I elected to do a comic about the high correlation between being trans and being autistic, and how this can affect mental health outcomes for folks.

You can read the whole comic in the digital edition, available on the OFM website (flip to page 40): https://www.outfrontmagazine.com/may-2023-queering-mental-health/

Obviously a half page comic is too small a space to get deep into this extremely complex and evolving topic, but the TL;DR is simply that trying to force autistic people to act more allistic leads to poorer mental health outcomes, and trying to force trans people to be cis leads to poorer mental health outcomes. If you’re both trans and autistic, you get a double whammy.

At this point, it’s clear that an unusually high percentage of trans people are autistic, but the why is unknown. One possibility, hinted at in the excerpted panel, is that autistic people often take exception to following rules if the underlying reasons for the rules make no sense. So it’s possible autistic people have a leg up in figuring out trans stuff, because a lot of society’s rules about How to Gender don’t really make a lot of sense if you pick them apart.

Cheers,

Dylan

OUT FRONT Magazine – April 2023 issue

OUT FRONT Magazine – April 2023 issue published on

My comic for this month’s OUT FRONT Magazine is, in fact, a bunch of queer fashion weed puns. Like you do. And yeah, I’m barely skating to the finish line, posting this late in the afternoon on 4/20. You can have punctuality, or you can have comics about weed.

Read the whole thing here (I’m on page 6):
https://www.outfrontmagazine.com/april-2023-mile-high-high-tea/
Cheers,

Dylan

OUT FRONT Magazine – March 2023 issue

OUT FRONT Magazine – March 2023 issue published on
The March issue of OUT FRONT Magazine is all about the Gayborhood, so my comic this month is a Scarry parody featuring the various queer animal archetypes. You can see ‘em all on page 6 here:
https://www.outfrontmagazine.com/march-2023-gayborhood/

OUT FRONT Magazine – February 2023 issue

OUT FRONT Magazine – February 2023 issue published on

This time around, I made a comic with some Valenslimes cards featuring various queers from the teevee.

Besides our Jim from OFMD, you’ll find queers from Interview with the Vampire, A League of Their Own, and Severance. Head on over to the OUT FRONT website to see ‘em all! You’ll find me on page 6.

Cheers,

Dylan

OUT FRONT Magazine – January 2023 issue

OUT FRONT Magazine – January 2023 issue published on

My comic for the January issue of OUT FRONT Magazine offers up some of my predictions for the coming year. You can read the whole thing in the online edition (I’m on page 6). Or, if you’re in Denver, you can grab a free copy at one of their drop locations!

Cheers,

Dylan

No Straight Lines on PBS

No Straight Lines on PBS published on
No Straight Lines queer comics documentary promotional graphic

Perhaps you would like to watch a documentary about queer comics? Well, you can now stream No Straight Lines on PBS!

I was interviewed for this film back in 2017 while I was at the Queers & Comics Conference organized by Jennifer Camper and Justin Hall, so yeah, you’ll see me and my work in there!

The film, directed by Vivian Kleiman, shares the same name as the anthology Justin published through Fantagraphics back in 2012, in which I also have some work. The book and the film focus on the last 50-ish years of queer comics history, how we get from utterly marginalized underground indie comics to Alison Bechdel’s bestseller-turned-hit-musical Fun Home.

The film will be available for streaming for the next three months on PBS, so head over and watch at your leisure: https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/no-straight-lines/ 

Cheers,

Dylan

OUT FRONT Magazine – December 2022 issue

OUT FRONT Magazine – December 2022 issue published on

My comic for this issue is all about mutual aid and how it’s especially important for queer and trans folks!

If you’re in the Denver area you can snag a free copy at one of their drop locations, or you can read the issue online at your leisure. My comic is on page 6.

Cheers,

Dylan

Our Flag Means Death fan art zine

Our Flag Means Death fan art zine published on
Our Flag Means Death fan art zine by Dylan Edwards

The deed is done! You can now acquire my OFMD fan art zine by way of the internet.

This zine collects most of my fan art creations related to Our Flag Means Death season 1, plus some works inspired by the 2022 OFMD panels at Emerald City Comic Con and C2E2. There are also a couple of What We Do in the Shadows cameos for extra measure.

Content notes: nothing outside the scope of what’s in the show. There’s some swearing, there’s some blood, there’s some risque ribaldry.

16-pages, full color, 5.5″ x 8.5″

Zines are $5.00 each, plus shipping.

Buy OFMD FAN ART ZINE on Ko-Fi

OUT FRONT Magazine – November 2022 issue

OUT FRONT Magazine – November 2022 issue published on

My comic for this month’s issue of OFM tackles the difference between Gender Affirming Care and Gender Exploratory Care.

Nearly identical sounding names, very different agendas.

You can read the whole comic in the online edition here (I’m on page 6), or if you’re in the Denver area you can pick up a free print copy at one of their drop locations.

Cheers,

Dylan

 OUT FRONT Magazine – Oct 2022 issue – Halloween

 OUT FRONT Magazine – Oct 2022 issue – Halloween published on

The October issue of OUT FRONT Magazine is here, and yes, it features an exclusive interview with Harvey Guillén (a.k.a. Guillermo on What We Do in the Shadows). My comic in this issue is all about bats, which you can read in a Laszlo voice if you like (“BAT!”).

If you’re in the Denver area you can pick up a print copy at one of their drop locations, or you can read online on the OUT FRONT Magazine dot com website. My comic is on page 6!

Cheers,

Dylan

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