![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At the time, the majority, though not the entirety, of LGBT+ webcomics were made by people who either were not part of the queer community or not openly so. Stories like Elfquest, Cerebus the Aardvark, and A Distant Soil all enjoy a sizable audience to this day. These were never huge, outside of relative flukes like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Crow, but many enjoyed cult followings. In the 1980s and 1990s, American independent comics had been previously isolated to small press, but were beginning to pick up nationally thanks to newly formed comic shops. I could probably list any Universal Monster and find at least one queer webcomic made by someone who greatly thirsts for Boris Karloff. While comic books on the direct market keep slowing in sales, the realm of webcomics has brought on fantastic new niches. ![]() If I were to do a quick Google search, I could find webcomics featuring anything I can imagine: gay centaur Westerns, wild overarching epics with diverse casts, and autobiographical tales featuring authors of almost every gender, sexuality, and race. Content Warning: this retrospective mentions abuse and sexual assault ![]()
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