Queer and Trans Comics by Dylan Edwards
The September issue of OUT FRONT Magazine is all about Masc & Femme, and my comic this time around offers some new lewks based on various members of the animal kingdom. Find me on page 6! Digital edition is here:
If you’re in the Denver area, you can also snag a free print copy at one of their drop locations.
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
The August issue of OUT FRONT Magazine is all about music, so of course I had to do a comic about how Judas Priest queered heavy metal. This one has a surprise twist ending, so be sure to read the full comic!
And no, the surprise twist is not that Rob Halford is gay. We’ve known THAT for years.
Denverites can pick up a free print copy of the magazine at one of their drop locations, or you can read the digital edition here (my comic is on page 8): https://outfrontmagazine.com/august-2022-sound-and-fury/
Also, speaking of queer leather culture, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention (again) the Izzy-themed leather pride flag stickers I made for all the Our Flag Means Death pervs. They’re $4 each, free shipping in the U.S., $2 shipping elsewhere in the world (that’s $2 per order, not per sticker, so stock up!). You can find them in my Ko-Fi store.
Cheers,
Dylan
ANYHOW, my July comic for OFM focused on Kinky Queers in Geeky Media, for the Kinky Geeks issue. As you can see from the header image, Laszlo Cravensworth from What We Do in the Shadows makes an appearance. You can find the comic on page 6 of the digital issue.
Speaking of kinky queers in geeky media, I made my first ever piece of fan merch, a leather/BDSM pride flag with an Izzy Hands theme:
These stickers are $4 each, free shipping in the U.S., $2 shipping to the rest of the world. I have them for sale in my Ko-Fi shop, so go snag one if you are of a mind to do so.
I will (hopefully) remember to make a post about my August OFM comic before the month ends, but I haven’t picked up my physical copy yet, so it’ll wait until I manage to do that.
Cheers,
Dylan
My newest comic for OUT FRONT Magazine is all about the queer rep in Our Flag Means Death, and how the show offers a welcome pushback against rising anti-LGBTQ prejudice. Digital edition is here (I’m on page 24).
Squeezing all of my thoughts and feels about this show down into a half-page comic was basically impossible. In the event you’re yearning for my much more detailed analysis, I have effectively ceded my Tumblr over to the lobe of my brain that is now dedicated to fine-toothed thematic and historical analysis of a gay pirate rom com. I am very much a sucker for media that is so richly crafted you get something new out of it each time you engage with it, noticing new details or themes you had missed before.
I’ve been doing a lot of OFMD fan art as well, but I haven’t been posting it here. If you want to peep it, the easiest way to find it is to hit up the aforementioned Tumblr or my Instagram.
Cheers,
Dylan
This month’s OUT FRONT Magazine is all about Health and Wellness!
My comic for this issue explores the impact of our current political climate on the mental health of my queer and trans brain.
You can read the online edition here (I’m on page 6): https://outfrontmagazine.com/may-2022-health-wellness-issue/
Cheers,
Dylan
Maybe what you need in your life today is a stoner vampire drag queen who drops bad puns without mercy or remorse? How the hell should I know.
BUT, should you dare, you will find Mx. Vape on Page 6 of the April 2022 issue of OUT FRONT Magazine.
Cheers,
Dylan
If you would like a break from the relentless onslaught of horrornews, might I suggest my comic about homebody drag kings in this month’s issue of OUT FRONT Magazine?
WARNING – may contain puns and moral turpitude, so proceed with caution to page 6: https://www.outfrontmagazine.com/march-2022-spring-queening/
Cheers,
Dylan
I’m sure you’re all reading my comics for OUT FRONT Magazine religiously, and with great zeal. As such, you may remember this stoner bear from the comic that ran in the December 2021 issue. Well, my sticker vendor had a sale on holographic stickers, so more or less on a whim I decided to turn the Cannabear into a pretty, shiny sticker. And now you can obtain one (or more!) for your very own:
NEW! – Cannabear Holographic Sticker
Bears certainly do love things that are edible, don’t they? Ahem. This bear originally appeared in one of my comics for OUT FRONT Magazine. Printed on holographic material, the sticker changes colors according to the angle of the light.
This durable, glossy vinyl sticker can be affixed to notebooks, laptops, phone cases, water bottles, etc.
Sticker dimensions: 2.5 inches high x 3 inches wide
Stickers are $4.00 each, free shipping to the U.S., $2 shipping to the rest of the world.
Cheers,
Dylan
The latest OUT FRONT Magazine is on the stands now (if you’re in the Denver area, that is), and I have a new comic in there! This seemed like a good issue to do a comic looking at just a few of the different manifestations that asexuality can take.
You can read the magazine online via their website (I’m on page 6).
I also made a public Patreon post wherein I go into some detail about the coloring choices for this comic.
If you are not hooked into cartoonist Twitter, there’s been a big, BIG explosion this morning regarding Gumroad as a platform for selling indie comics. I’m not sure I want to get into the whole story here, but suffice it to say, Gumroad decided to take what could have been a very minor problem and dealt with it in a professional manner. Instead, they apparently, for reasons that are absolutely opaque to me, decided they’d rather bully and abuse a huge swath of creators in public, on Twitter, and then delete a bunch of those abusive tweets.
I have not quite picked my jaw up off the floor from seeing how badly they handled this whole thing. But it made me not trust them as a company going forward. My problem now is that I have to figure out a new platform for selling my self-published work. Since all of this blew up just this morning, I haven’t had a chance to figure out yet what my new thing is going to be. It may take me some days to sort it out (this is the kind of thing I dread having to deal with even under normal circumstances, nevermind the current howling mess).
I am also currently sidelined to some extent. My left shoulder, a.k.a. my drawing shoulder, seized up the other day, and I have not been able to un-seize it, no matter how much I rest or stretch or worry it with trigger point massagers. So I’m going back to physical therapy, but that’s a bit over a week away. As such, my time on the computer and at the drafting table is limited for awhile yet.
ANYWAY, once I sort out my new biz for selling comics online, I will post about it here.
Cheers,
Dylan