I ever walk a fewer hours successful January oregon February scouring the net for each upcoming queer comic, graphic novel, and memoir I tin find. I similar to person a database acceptable to spell for erstwhile I’m successful the temper for immoderate ocular storytelling and privation to enactment successful a fewer room holds. And 2023 is already looking fantastic for queer comics! These are the ones I’m astir excited about, and conscionable a tiny sampling of each the large ones coming retired soon. The database includes respective amazing-sounding retellings: similar 1 of the classical lesbian vampire communicative Carmilla, a thriller-esque reimagining of The Great Gatsby, and a cheery retelling of Northanger Abbey (yes, please)! Plus, 2 sapphic sports romances, a nonfiction publication astir gender, a trans memoir from Spain, and more! In short, these books correspond conscionable however wonderfully varied queer comics are these days. There is thing for everyone.
While a fewer of these are already out, astir of them are slated to beryllium published this outpouring and summer. You cognize what to do: enactment queer comics artists by putting successful your preorders now, oregon petition that your section room bargain these titles!
Homecoming by Kaitlin Chan
In this graphic memoir, Kaitlin Chan recounts her experiences arsenic a young queer pistillate successful Taipei, sharing some her ain coming retired communicative and the stories of the queer Taiwanese assemblage she became a portion of. It’s a beauteous coming-of-age communicative astir making art, uncovering belonging, and redefining family, 1 that celebrates queer radical of colour successful each their complexity.
Carmilla: The First Vampire by Amy Chu, Soo Lee, and Sal Cipriano
I mean, a feminist reimagining of the archetypal lesbian vampire story, acceptable successful 1990s New York, featuring a execution enigma and elements of Chinese folklore? You don’t request to cognize immoderate more, bash you? The communicative follows a societal idiosyncratic turned amateur detective erstwhile she realizes that stateless LGBTQ+ women are being murdered. The creation looks perfectly luscious.
Mimosa by Archie Bongiovanni (March 7)
This is simply a funny, honest, and heartfelt look astatine queer beingness successful your 30s. It follows a queer chosen household done the ups and downs of life, from divorcement and azygous parenting to unrequited crushes, vocation burnout, and analyzable friendships. We decidedly request much slice-of-life queer stories, and this 1 looks similar it strikes the cleanable equilibrium betwixt charming amusive and existent drama.
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Belle of the Ball by Mari Costa (March 21)
Will determination ever beryllium capable sapphic sports romances? No, evidently not. Happily, this is lone the archetypal of 2 I can’t hold to work this year. When precocious schoolhouse elder Hawkins yet works retired the nervus to inquire retired her crush…well, it doesn’t spell smoothly, due to the fact that her crush is already dating idiosyncratic — a miss Hawkins agrees to tutor successful bid to, you guessed it, get person to said crush. Yeah, sounds similar a full queer miss teen mess, and I cannot hold to spot however it each gets untangled.
Grand Slam Romance by Ollie Hicks and Emma Oosterhous (May 23)
Here is the 2nd promised sapphic sports romance, featuring the astir lesbian of lesbian sports: softball! It’s astir 2 softball players connected rival teams, with a full batch of unresolved past betwixt them. Are you getting A League of Their Own vibes? Because I surely am. Oh yeah, and there’s besides magic! I simply cannot ideate thing I privation to work more.
Gatsby by Jeremy Holt and Felipe Cunha (May 30)
The Great Gatsby coming into the nationalist domain has been an implicit boon for queer retellings successful the past 2 years. I can’t get capable of them! This 1 is acceptable successful the present, and stars a Singaporean student, Lu Zhao, who’s spending the summertime earlier helium starts assemblage with his affluent relative connected Long Island. He soon gets caught up successful Tommy’s affluent ellipse of friends, which involves drugs and secrets and murder. Think Gatsby, but queer, and with the pacing of a thriller.
Northranger by Rey Terciero and Bre Indigo (June 6)
A chap Book Riot writer described this to maine arsenic “queer cowboy Northanger Abbey” and, wow. I did not recognize I had been waiting for idiosyncratic to accidental those words to maine until I heard them. This retelling of Jane Austen’s classical is astir 16-year-old Cade Muñoz and the eventful summertime helium spends moving astatine his stepfather’s Texas ranch. Sign maine up.
Us by Sara Soler and Joamette Gil, Translated by Silvia Perea Labayen (June 13)
First published successful Spain successful 2019, an English translation of this graphic memoir is coming this summer! It’s portion emotion story, portion coming-into-self story, arsenic comic creator Sara Soler recounts her narration with her spouse Diana, done their meeting, falling successful love, Diana’s transition, and each the mean ups and downs they’ve weathered together.
Gender is Really Strange by Teddy G. Goetz and Sophie Standing (August 21)
In this nonfiction comic, portion of the Really Strange series, queer and trans psychiatrist Teddy G. Goetz explores the weird and fantastic satellite of gender. He examines sex done a assortment of lenses — cultural, societal, biological, etc. — revealing conscionable however analyzable and varied ideas and experiences of sex are.
If you, similar me, are craving much queer graphic novels and comics portion you hold for these to travel out, you’ll find a treasure trove of them successful this database of 2022 LGBTQ+ comics and graphic novels! And if you’re not definite wherever to commencement with queer comics, cheque retired this database of comics recs based connected your favorite queer book!