#trans comic creator

[pompoison]

Happy Pride! I’m a trans man and this is a trailer I put together for my f💀cked up queer gay MLM romance webcomic, Little Death.

⛓️eldritch nightmare man / transmasc romance

⛓️rating: adult

⛓️TW for everything

⛓️see my pinned for all the published pages

[brooke2valley]

Ya see the difference? 🤭 💕

It's less of a "I look wrong" now and more of a "oh I need to clean myself up" lol it gets better.

Promise ❤️

[snowwiieyy]

How do I look on these? 🙈 😊

Answer DMs on telegram @Snoww67

[devilboycomic]

The making of a devil boy

[jesncin]

https://www.instagram.com/p/C8UnZtHp4_N/?igsh=MzJwajM5cXd5NDNm

Saw this and immediately thought of your wholesome Superman rework. 🏳️‍⚧️

aaah I'm put in an awkward place when folks send other people's fanart and I...don't like it 😅 like traditionally it's fandom etiquette to just scroll away when you see fanon/fanart you don't like, but when I'm put on the spot like this and have my work directly compared to it...welp.

While it's nice to see more recognition to possible queer readings of marginalized supers, I'm wary of how mainstream queerness has been used to pinkwash adaptations of the more racialized aspects of the character in question. Superman is an allegorical analog for a white-passing Jewish immigrant, but in MAWS those themes are universalized to being just "different". There's a whole episode where Clark's marginalization is likened to that of a gay couple, and how he's forced out of the closet because having boundaries and privacy hurts his friends' feelings. Never once in the show is he likened to immigrants or people of color who experience xenophobia.

I haven't watched X-Men '97, but I do find it troubling that Sunspot- whose very origin involves him experiencing anti-Black violence- has his marginalization likened to just queer struggles. A non-Black actor has yet again been casted to portray him. Just another example of how Sunspot in particular has been gradually getting whitewashed in new takes. It's just with queerness now too.

I think this is why it kind of gets to me when people read my "wholesome" Superman-comic-about-losing-parts-of-yourself-to-xenophobia as a trans allegory. It's like whitewashing via pink kryptonite.

[turtleblogatlast]

Thinking about the Don Suave scene and what it means in terms of LGBTQ+ representation because my brain does nothing if not torment me with random topics to ramble about on the regular.

Anyway, I just wanted to ramble about why I like the scene but to get it out of the way - the scene can very easily be interpreted in so many different ways, and all of them are valid. I personally see it as Leo having at least some attraction to a man. And the following is an explanation of my own interpretation and thoughts on it and what it means especially for Leo’s portrayal in the grand scheme of things.

Long-winded interpretation under the cut!

Now, to start with, it’s important to me that in the scene Leo looks at Don Suave in the very beginning and then for the entirety of the rest of the time the man is on screen, Leo’s eyes are closed. Yet, in the end, he is still visibly enamored with Don Suave, happily cuddling up to him as he’s being carried away.

You can very easily interpret this as Leo being spellbound and that’s honestly super valid and I believe he likely was at least somewhat in the beginning, but considering how fast he looked away and how he never looked again, I personally think it makes more sense to read it as Leo just finding the man attractive, at least somewhat. (For the record, I personally headcanon Rise Leo as bisexual with a heavy preference for men, but I want to be blunt when I say that any interpretation is valid. Literally any. Ace, pan, gay, bi, none of the above or a mixture of something new literally all of it is more than okay and fair. Hell you could even interpret this entire scene as more romantic attraction than physical and it would still work. Anything goes!! Don’t bother people, guys, really.)

The main reason I take this scene to be at the very least LGBTQ+ adjacent isn’t just because of how it’s portrayed, but because of who Leonardo is. Not in terms of Rise of the TMNT, but in terms of the entire Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles™️ franchise.

Leo’s a character who, while changing with each iteration, has still at his core been around for decades upon decades as “the blue one”. One fourth of the team. He’s the one most are going to look at as the Leader, and oftentimes he is the one closest to having the title of Main Character. Not to say the others aren’t just as important, but Leo’s presence in the A plots of basically all TMNT media is often something very main character-esque.

And that’s very, very important to note. Here we have a Main Character of a prolific and decades long-running franchise distributed by a children’s television network. You can play around with his and his brothers’ characters all you like, but there is always going to be challenges to dodge around, especially since this was still in 2018-2019.

For example, you can play around with their designs so long as they’re color coded turtles, but their sexualities? Now that’s tricky.

“But what about Hypno and Warren?” Not main characters and also they’re Rise originals. They have a lot more room to play around with than a character like Leo does. But even talking about main characters in the franchise, you could arguably have an easier time playing around with Donnie or Mikey’s sexualities than Leo or even Raph, as (unfortunately) the former two tend to get more B plots, so they’d likely have had a little more leeway (still not a lot though.)

So, where does this leave us?

It leaves us in a place where outright stating and/or showing undeniable proof of Leo’s attraction to men is very, very difficult. So, workarounds!

Workarounds like the entire Don Suave situation.

To be honest, as left up to interpretation and lowkey and deniable as it is, this whole scene means a lot to me because of who Leo is as a character. It’s just nice when we get so see even the bare bones of representation with characters that have been such a large part of pop culture for decades, y’know? Even if more would be so much nicer, this is better than I thought we’d ever get for these boys.

And, again, literally nothing I’ve said is the only way to interpret it, I’m more than happy when people interpret media on their own honestly, it’s just something I’ve been thinking of lately and I was wondering if others felt the same way.

Whatever you think when you interpret this scene or Rise Leo as a whole, I just thought this would be interesting to think about, even if it was ramble-y, haha.

[tychodorian]

Heaven's Equal Chapter 08

Well, here it is! The entirety of Heaven's Equal Chapter 08. Thank you again to everyone who subscribes on Tapas. I appreciate it a lot!

As always, if you want to read the beginning of the comic, the entire thing is uploaded onto Tapas and Webtoons. I'm very close to reaching my 100 subscriber goal on Tapas, and it's totally free! As soon as I do, I can start earning ad revenue, which would be incredibly cool.

Thank you so much to everyone again, and happy reading!

[sparklemaia]

It's true! I've got a substack newsletter!

I have two subscription tiers: free, and $5/month. Most posts will be available at the free level, but paid subscribers will also get exclusive bonus content 😮 The paid tier is a great way to support me as I head to cartooning school this fall to pursue my dream of writing & illustrating LGBTQ+ graphic novels. Whichever subscription tier you're at, thank you for being part of my team! Seriously, I'm so glad you're here 💜 I'm pumped to roll this out! [edited to explain the spoon thing: it's my biggest sensory nope! I know it's a weird one but my system came with it installed. touching wooden spoons makes my teeth sockets scream. I use silicone or metal spoons or like, my sleeve around the handle. What's your weirdest sensory nope? tell me in the tags!]

[slinksowses]

More of Nanosow!!

He loves to be called Nano, and he’s a little guy. I’m currently working on making stills for him to use for Pngtubing on YouTube and tiktok! Nano has two other forms, named Picosow and Gigasow, and they are all the same entity, but they can separate into different consciousness’. Nano loves doing art and talking about his special interests and hyperfixations!

He’s a loser and I love him :>

[milothehub-actually]

🐛🪐Intro post! Please Read!⭐️✨

Hi! I’m Milo. // He/it/They/anything but she/her please :3 // Wannabe professional webcomic artist born in ‘03

Music while you scroll👇🫧

I have never gone to art school, nor do I want to. I started my art journey late in life. The year was 2022, and I was 19 when I decided to quit college and wanted to be an artist on the internet instead. Not that that’s an easy feat, but I’m gonna make it work. My art journey has been all over the place, but that’s a story for another time.

This account will be for any one-off comics I make! As well as concepts for bigger projects in the future. I probably won’t be super active on here, if I’m being honest. I’ll try to add silly comics every once in a while, though. All of them will be for practice, nothing too serious. If anyone has any tips or tricks, let me know! I’ll soak constructive criticism up like a sponge.

I also want to make it very clear, no one is allowed to repost my art or use it for ai purposes! It is my intellectual property, so it belongs to me, even if I post it online. I think that’s common sense, but still good to put it on here clear as day!

⭐️✨Ways To Support Me⭐️✨

I have a YouTube channel, that, as of writing this, I have not been monetized. But I’m getting closer each day. I mostly post sketchbook content, but also some fun crafty things!

At some point, I will re-open my ko-fi account as a little tip jar, and then further down the line have stickers and art prints. That’s the plan, at least.

Thanks for reading! ☑️🌟💖

[brooke2valley]

We'll stand together. 💕

Scary and stressful couple of days... it might be really difficult for awhile, but I know we're going to get through it ❤️

[delshark]

🌴✨ California Magic is a graphic novel series which follows a found family of monsters, magic users, and joe schmoes as they bumble their way into the nefarious inner workings of their home city.

I'm an ace person myself, so I wanted to create a series for mature readers that doesn't rely heavily on sexual content. Three of the prominent characters are acespec! Two of which are the main focus in our first completed story, which is now available to read here on Tumblr: @curiahcity

💜🤍🖤

[risingshards]

reborn in a fighting game with my rival comic sans powerpoint

i figured i should do reborn also!!! this one is shorter because I wanted to just hit the big main points of this series

you can read it HERE!!!

[chaoticgrrrl123]

Willow & The Family Ace on Webtoons and Tapas

[heartsystembeats]

Transphoria: A Trans & Non Binary Comic Book Anthology is coming soon.

There are 90 pages of own-story art making up 19 comics, one of which was written by ✨me✨ and illustrated by Michele Cacciatore.

Please follow and/or bookmark the pre-launch page, and check back when it launches on May 28th!

[somnuscomics]

New page!

Another look in to Claire's inner monologue.