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Our Creator Interview series over the years have highlights multiple creators of the LGBTQ+ community, including:

• YouTuber and prolific creator Jennie Gyllblad
• Webcomic creator Dulceskull,
• Professional freelance artist and mangaka LycheeDevil
• Creative duo SK6
• Twins Team Diamant Comics

Each person or team has shared their inspirations and path to becoming a creator while embracing their identity in the LGBTQ+ community. Let's revisit these creators and see what they are up to as part of Pride Month!

1. Jennie Gyllblad

A Swedish comic artist based in the UK, Jennie Gyllblad started making comics as a kid, turning her love of art, roleplay,...

GlobalComix Weekly is your update on all things new, noteworthy, and wildly readable on GlobalComix - from major publisher drops to standout creator highlights and can’t-miss community events. Whether deep into comics or discovering something new, we’ve got you covered.

This week, some epic Rick & Morty drops just hit the platform - and we’ll give you our top 3 picks to satisfy your flavor of chaos. And in honor of Pride Month, we’re spotlighting the creators who helped change the world - through panels, ink, and fearless storytelling.

Rick & Morty Drops

And speaking of what people are reading - we’ve got a fresh batch of...

Pride Month 2025 is here, and today we've highlighted some LGBTQ+ comics and manga made by creators that have done work to raise awareness of LGBTQ+ people with their work. Whether it's activism in the streets or within pages, there are all sorts of ways to support each other and be an ally.

Gengoroh Tagame 

Notable works: The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame, My Brother’s Husband

A pioneer of gay manga, Tagame's earlier explicit work was groundbreaking in representing queer desire from a Japanese gay male perspective in a country where standing out has been something typically discouraged. He rose to prominence in the 1980s and ’90s with gei-komi...

GlobalComix Weekly is your update on all things new, noteworthy, and wildly readable on GlobalComix - from major publisher drops to standout creator highlights and can’t-miss community events. Whether deep into comics or discovering something new, we’ve got you covered.

We've got a brand-new way to enjoy your favorite videos about comics with GlobalComix Watch, your new binge spot for comic-tube vids. Then we'll serve up five creator videos you need in your feed, switch gears for a formal highlight of essential Pride Month reads, and reveal fresh day-and-date drops from Dark Horse.

Here's a recap of the video:

Introducing GlobalComix Watch

We're...

Pride Month 2025 is here, and today we've highlighted some critical and impactful LGBTQ+ comics that you should be reading and why we recommend them. Whether it's about Queer history, a controversial title being challenged in libraries across the United States, or a whole collection of tales, we've got a list you'll love.

1. Gender Queer - Oni Press

In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Then e created Gender Queer. Maia’s intensely...

GlobalComix Weekly is your update on all things new, noteworthy, and wildly readable on GlobalComix - from major publisher drops to standout creator highlights and can’t-miss community events. Whether deep into comics or discovering something new, we’ve got you covered.

We've got a massive Power Rangers comic drop for all our GlobalComix Gold members, and our Top 3 mighty morphin’ must-reads. Then we'll honor Pride Month with a curated shelf that spotlights LGBTQ+ voices across the comic cosmos.

Here's a recap of the video:

Big Power Rangers Comics Drop

We’ve just added a massive lineup of Power Rangers comics to the GlobalComix...

This month on GlobalComix, we're excited to support our LGBTQ+ community by celebrating the creators and stories that make up a significant percentage of the comics and manga on GlobalComix. LGBTQ+ creators tell stories and bring them to life visually across a wide spectrum of genres and themes.

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Two shelves, one featuring creators of LGBTQ+ stories, and the other featuring comics and manga within the LGBTQ+ theme.

• LGBTQ+ Creators
• LGBTQ+ Stories
   

More to come throughout June

We're planning a lot more to celebrate Pride Month this year. We have a variety of articles planned for June, including more opportunities to spotlight the...

Wrapping up our Pride Month celebrations, we've got a special Top 10 Most Popular LGBTQ+ comics of the last 30 days just for you. From devious cat boys, to gun-wielding succubi, and vampire gangs, there's a queer story bound to fit your fancy!

Black Cat, 794 pages - Published by Starkonut, (cc/ @Starkonut)

(BL comic) Jackson Keaton, a New York detective have a mysterious case in hand. In need of help from the Altair Order; he is thrown into the world of exorcists, phantoms, and devils. Partnered with a new captain, Zero Takahashi, a beautiful young man with cat ears? Who too hold mysteries of his own. Will Jackson be able to save his city or will he be eaten alive by the...

Our Creator Interview series returns with Youtuber and prolific creator Jennie Gyllblad. Creator of many comics, but more known for Skal, Jennie has been creating for a long time, and focused on a wide breadth of comics. Biographical, fantastical, it's a bit of everything! Jennie also creates content for her JennieGyllblad YouTube channel, giving back the community and providing a space for discussion of the medium and industry. With that let's dig in.

GlobalComix: Tell us a little bit about yourself and why you started making comics.

Jennie Gyllblad: Hej! My name is Jennie Gyllblad – I'm originally from Northern Sweden, but I've been living and...

Last week for our Pride Month history series, we looked at two impactful creators in the Queer comics space, Shou Arai and Alison Bechdel. Today we'll be discussing LGBTQ+ comics that you should be reading, and taking a look into some books that have been banned across libraries in the United States due to their queer content.

Kicking off this article are two books that I have found enjoyment in reading, FunGirl and LumberJanes. Fungirl is a story about a girl, Fungirl, just trying to get her life together, watching it fall apart, and embracing the chaos of it all. I think chaos is a great way to describe the vibe of this book, as I found it unpredictable in a...

Last week for our Pride Month history series, we looked at the history of LGBTQ+ representation and presentation in manga. For today's article, we're looking into two creators who have made waves using their own lived experiences as the focus of their works, Shou Arai and Alison Bechdel. Truly iconic creators, both have spent many years creating works based on their own experiences and lean into activism and providing a voice for their communities. Creators like these two are monumental in LGBTQ+ voices being heard and understood and can help educate society about issues facing LGBTQ+ communities.  

Shou Arai is defined as an "Essay Mangaka" known...

Our Creator Interview series returns today with another creator of queer comics, Alex, also known here as Dulceskull. Their comic Pink Sugar has been hosted here on the platform since 2022 and boasts nearly 400 pages following a “speed run of the afterlife”. I recently took my dive into the series while looking for more queer creators to read, and I've absolutely fallen in love with this comic, and its stellar artwork. I'm so pleased to have Alex here for you all today. With that, let's get into it!

GlobalComix: Tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got into making comics.

Alex Bar: Howdy! I’m Alex, and I am a butch lesbian. I am my...

Our Creator Interview series returns today with LycheeDevil, also known as Vee, a professional freelance artist and mangaka. I came across Vee's work on Twitter during the Summer of Manga contest in 2023 held by Saturday AM in which she submitted her title Scarlet Vagabond. They were published as a result, and I've been following her since. Vee also puts out helpful advice and tips about making manga on her social media, and is continuing to work with Saturday AM. A rising star in the manga community and a helpful one at that, so she's a perfect feature for this interview series.

GlobalComix: Tell us a little bit about yourself and why you started making manga and...

Last week for our Pride Month history series, we looked into the past of the Stonewall Uprising and how it helped launch the queer comics movement into what we have today. Now, we'll take a look at queer manga, LGBTQ+ representation, and now to navigate the space with some core genres and demographics. Navigating queer and LGBTQ+ manga is a bit harder due to the different terminology and the stigma being queer has held in Japan. For this article, we'll also be featuring The Flower That Seems to Truly Dance by Tokyopop from their Love x Love line, and a manga I discovered only recently, NOIR by NOIR.

When compared to the United States or the United Kingdom, Japan has been...

Dig down deep for these Fresh Friday Features titles. In honor of Pride Month, on this first Friday in June, we're going on journeys to explore the self. From accepting your faults and leaning into them, to adjusting to a changing identity, and loving yourself as you are, these stories can serve as the inspiration and catalyst to go on your own introspective adventure.

This week, @ArtCrumbs picked:

• Comic - Fungirl by Elizabeth Pich: Fungirl is a hapless (hopeless) mess of a woman.
• Graphic Novel - Pearl of the Sea: Since her mother left, Pearl has spent more and more time in the ocean, fishing to help her father pay the bills.
• Manga - At 30, I Realized I Had No Gender:...

What are the origins of Pride Month and what is its impact on the comic industry? This Pride Month 2024, we'll be sitting down with creators and sharing more about the history of queer creators in comics and manga.

For this first article, we'll cover one of the most famous incidents leading to the foundation of Pride Month, the Stonewall Uprising, also known as the Stonewall Riots. In addition to that, we'll be featuring two comics, The Stonewall Riots by TidalWave Productions and The Melting Pot Riot by Team Diamant Comics.

Before Stonewall, there were numerous uprisings against police and state brutality, harassment, and entrapment of LGBTQ+ communities in the U.S....

With Pride Month 2023 coming to a close, we figured what would be more awesome than to celebrate 12 of our most Trending LGBTQ+ titles for our What's Trending today! Love, adventure, fantasy, action, it's all here. Love is love, and everyone should feel comfortable living as their true selves. We at GlobalComix are here to support you! I'm ArtCrumbs, and write most of the articles you read. I am non-binary myself, and I understand how important it is that we support one another to tell our stories. 

Don't forget to also check out our Creator Stories featuring teams at SK6, Team Diamant Comics, and VictoryDrawsManga! With that, let's...

Get ready for a thrilling adventure through the pages of Popular Last Week, a curated collection of six indie comics that dominated the charts and captured readers' hearts in the past week. Today's comics from the Adventure genre combine pulse-pounding action with LGBTQ+ themes, offering a refreshing and inclusive twist on classic tales of daring quests and epic journeys.

From courageous heroes to mesmerizing worlds, these comics celebrate diversity, representation, and the power of storytelling, this list will leave you eagerly turning each page in anticipation of the next grand adventure.

Mandy and the Magic Toad, 397 pages - Published by ArtDweeb, (cc/ @ArtDweeb)

From gripping mysteries to pulse-pounding action, these stories explore the intersections of identity, love, and danger, providing a captivating and diverse reading experience that celebrates both the suspenseful and the inclusive. Our Popular Last Week offers a unique and empowering twist on the genre.

Across Your Shattered Sky, 97 pages - Published by Llewellyn, (cc/ @Llewellyn)

“If you want to live, there is only one rule: you cannot fall in love." Suffering from an oddly selective amnesia, lonely youth Kyo believes to have finally reunited with his beloved friend Sora. As they learn of love & the dark secrets they share, they find their own inner-demons may be...

We're continuing our Pride Month series to support our LGBTQ+ creators and spotlight LGBTQ+ comics and manga. From light-hearted fun to somber realities, we're all in this together. We've got some trending Slice of Life titles with LGBTQ+ themes, so grab your besties and some snacks, and enjoy these comics that explore our day-to-day lives.

My Girlfriend is Ace, 221 pages - Published by ACHIRU.COM, (cc/ @Achiru)

Mandi’s ex-friends-with-benefits Kelsea and Andrea circle back into her life after she finally finds a “real” boyfriend, Erin, and some chaos ensues as they trigger old wounds. Mandi has always dreamed of getting married, except she...

Pride Month is here, and it's time to celebrate love in all its forms. We're here to support our LGBTQ+ creators and spotlight LGBTQ+ comics and manga. In this illustrious collection of six comics, we celebrate Girls' Love. These stories perfectly embody the strength, beauty, and resilience of LGBTQ+ women, offering empowering narratives that inspire and uplift.

Indocilis Alchimia, 36 pages - Published by SK6, (cc/ @KohariAsh)

Looking to be with her platonic love Atenea, Shin joins an Alchemy class without even know what that word means. Now she'll have to go through this difficult class, with a demanding teacher and some very annoying classmates in order to...

Pride Month is here, and it's time to celebrate love in all its forms. We're here to support our LGBTQ+ creators and showcase LGBTQ+ comics and manga. Today, we've got a Boy's Love feature, showing recently popular titles! Get ready for sweet romances, tough break-ups, and some unlikely pairs. There's something for everyone in this special feature today!

Omega Elixir, 235 pages - Published by KatrinaComics, (cc/ @katrinacomics)

BL • 18+ • Updates Bi-Weekly • Get early access to updates on Patreon www.patreon.com/katrinacomics • Brandon, a student at an elite finishing school for Omegas, is key to a new drug that's devastating the...

Celebrate the vibrant spirit of Pride Month with a dazzling selection of romance comics that beautifully embrace LGBTQ+ themes. These six enchanting titles will sweep you off your feet with heartfelt love stories and diverse characters who navigate the complexities of romance, identity, and acceptance. This week's What's Trending is a delightful celebration of love in all its glorious forms.

Fine Print, 188 pages - Published by Top Cow, (cc/ @vincelongo)

How do you deal with a broken heart? Junk food? Excessive drinks? Dubious contracts with ancient gods? When it comes to Lauren Thomas, the queen of bad decisions, the answer is always the worst possible choice....

For our last Pride Month Feature, we've got some more never-before-featured LGBTQ+-themed comics on today's What's Trending! From fantastical worlds to the classroom to crime mysteries, we've got a story for you!

1. Sunrise Blossom, 1494 pages - Published by Nina D. Aberlein Comics, (cc/ @NinaDAberlein)

Ivy is a young harpy who is separated from her sister while travelling to learn about human culture. After running into a Violet, a human woman who takes her in, Ivy slowly starts blooming into womanhood, while developing feelings for her human companion.

Story and Art by Nina D. Aberlein Comics

2. Blooming Bones, 392 pages - Published...

Welcome to all our new Creators this week! We've decided to feature LBGTQ+ comics never featured before for this week's What's Trending! A kidnapping, superheroes, Crime, mythology - all sorts of comics worthy of a Pride Month feature!

Be sure to read and share to support our creators today, featuring:


1. Coming To The Lavender, 78 pages - Published by Laylabelle97, (cc/ @Laylabelle97)

Aaron had not planned on becoming a human sacrifice this summer, but that’s exactly what a group of cultists have in mind for him. Fortunately, he is saved by Myfawny, a beautiful, strong, confident woman. Who is also a giant bug. Myfawny and Aaron’s good times are...