Comics by LGBTQ+ Comics Creators
Celebrate Pride Month with this list of Comics by LGBTQ+ Comics Creators authors and/or artists. Annotations adapted from the publisher's description unless otherwise noted. (Updated May 2022)
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I Never Promised You A Rose Garden
What begins as an affectionate reminiscence of the author's 1990s teenage infatuation with the late actor River Phoenix morphs into a remarkable, sprawling account of the city of Portland and state of Oregon's dark history of white nationalism.
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness
An honest and heartfelt look at one young woman's exploration of her sexuality, mental well-being, and growing up in our modern age.
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: All copies in use
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Gumballs
Gumballs dispenses an array of bright, candy-colored short comics about Erin's gender transition, anecdotal tales of growing up as a triplet, and fictional stories of a socially inept lovestruck teenager named Tobias.
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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Girl Town
Collects the Ignatz Award-winning stories "Radishes" and "Diana's Electric Tongue" together with several other tales of young adulthood and the search for connection.
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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The Lie and How We Told It
Parrish's emotionally loaded, painted graphic novel is a visual tour de force, always in the service of the author's themes: navigating queer desire, masculinity, fear, and the ever-in-flux state of friendships.
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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The Pervert
A surprisingly honest and touching account of a trans girl surviving through sex work in Seattle.
Format: Downloadable Graphic Novel
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Our Work Is Everywhere
Through bold, symbolic imagery and surrealist, overlapping landscapes, queer illustrator and curator Syan Rose shines a light on the faces and voices of diverse, amorphous, messy, real, and imagined queer and trans communities.
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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Death Threat
An unflinching portrayal of violent harassment from the perspective of both the perpetrator and the target, illustrating the dangers of online accessibility, and the ease with which vitriolic hatred can be spread digitally.
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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Red Rock Baby Candy
Self-described as "an infertile, high-femme, low income, non-biological Jewish mom, dyke drama queen, and ectopic pregnancy survivor," the author tells her story in this formally innovative graphic memoir.
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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First Year Out
Based on the author's own personal experiences and those of her friends, this intimate and striking graphic novel follows transgender woman Lily, as she transitions to her true self.
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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