The following is a complete listing of contributors to GAY COMICS throughout it's 25-issue run taken GAY COMICS #25, and used by permission of editor Andy Mangels. The issue(s) of GAY COMIX/COMICS that each creator contributed to is in parentheses. Please note, that not all the contributors listed here, are in fact, gay.

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T. Amatrudo
(Gay Comix #7)
The whereabouts and credits of T. Amatrudo are unknown.

Tim Barela
(Gay Comix #5–7, 10–14, Special #1 / Gay Comics #25)
A native Californian, Tim Barela began working professionally as a cartoonist in the mid-'70s. An avid motorcyclist, he contributed to Cycle News, Biker, Cycle World, Choppers, and Biker Lifestyle. In the '80s, Tim's personal life and career took a radical turn out the closet door. It was then that Tim decided to give two minor gay characters from an abandoned project their own comic strip. Initially rejected by The Advocate, Barela's strip was enthusiastically accepted by Robert Triptow for Gay Comix, and "Leonard & Larry" made its first appearance in 1984. Today the strip appears in the biweekly national newsmagazine Frontiers and has been released in two book collections: Domesticity Isn't Pretty ($15.00 postpaid) and Kurt Cobain and Mozart Are Both Dead ($12.00 postpaid). Order them from Palliard Press, 912 West Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN 55408. "Leonard & Larry" was also part of Out of the Inkwell, a four-segment play presented in 1994 by San Francisco's Theatre Rhinoceros.

Mark Barnard
(Gay Comics #22)
Mark Barnard is one of the artists behind the anthropomorphic Shanda the Panda series. Mark is a Kansas man who edits the SF zine Midnight Sonata and has contributed to numerous small press publications.

Donna Barr
(Gay Comics #15, 16, 25)
Since 1986, Donna Barr has been drawing and writing The Desert Peach — a history of the Desert Fox's fictional gay brother, through which she can say whatever she thinks needs to be said about the 20th century — and Stinz, which on the surface appears to be about a centaur, but which is really about us two-leggers. Her work has been recognized by The Washington Post and by the New York Public Library, which featured The Desert Peach in its 1996 centennial exhibition. For her catalog, send a SASE to Donna Barr's Excellent Items, 1318 N. Montgomery, Bremerton, WA 98312-3056. E-mail her at dbarr@linknet.kitsap.lib.wa.us, and check out her web page at http://www.tooluser.com/barr.

Alison Bechdel
(Gay Comix #10 / Gay Comics #19, 25)
Alison Bechdel was born in 1960 to a pair of English teachers in rural Pennsylvania. As soon as possible, she went away to Oberlin College, came out, and moved to New York City. It was there, in 1982, that she began drawing a series of deranged "dykes to watch out for," chiefly for her own amusement. Her first published cartoon appeared in 1983 in the New York City newspaper WomaNews. After contributing to WomaNews for two years, Bechdel self-syndicated her strip. "Dykes to Watch Out For" now runs in over 40 gay/lesbian, feminist, and progressive papers in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K., and on the web site at http://www.visi.com/~oprairie/. In 1988 Bechdel created another strip called "Servants to the Cause," about the staff of a queer newspaper. The strip ran in The Advocate for less than two years and was collected in Gay Comics #19. Firebrand Books has published eight collections of Bechdel's "Dykes to Watch Out For" cartoons, and several annual calendars have also been produced. Bechdel has won numerous Lambda Literary Awards! Her cartoons have also appeared in Ms., Washington Blade, Dyke Strippers, Real Girl, American Splendor, Wimmen's Comix, and The Village Voice. You can e-mail her at BigD2wo4@aol.com.

Steve Beery
(Gay Comix #8, 11) A successful writer for Interview, Vanity Fair, The Advocate, The San Francisco Chronicle, and England's The Pink Paper, Steve Beery succumbed to AIDS in the summer of 1993. A longtime comics fan, his boyhood comments can be seen in old DC letters columns (as can Jerry Mills'), and Steve's massive comic-book collection was bequested to the University of Michigan. He was a close friend of the novelist Armistead Maupin and of Trina Robbins and Robert Triptow.

Anina Bennett
(Gay Comics #23, 25)
Anina Bennett is the co-creator of the Heartbreakers series with her husband Paul Guinan. The series has appeared in various issues of Dark Horse Presents, as well as a mini-series. Anina has edited books for Disney, First, and Dark Horse. A collection is planned from Image later this year, which will contain an all-new Heartbreakers saga.

Bruce Billings
(Gay Comix #10, 12 / Gay Comics #25)
Bruce Billings is retired and is not that different from living in San Francisco! He also adds that when the crickets chirp, they really are crickets.... not zippers! He's very pleased to have participated in the landmark 25th issue of Gay Comics and sends his best wishes to everyone involved from himself and Castro!

Blue
(Gay Comix #13 / Gay Comics #25)
Blue, also known as Bloobird, was writer and editor of The LSD Tabloid, an on-line publication. Blue wished to dedicate his strip in GAY COMICS 25th anniversary issue to his partner in love and life, the mysterious and wonderful Elroy, aka Dan Wardlow. I've been informed that Blue passed away in 2001. A memorial to Blue may be found at this web address. Peace and love to all.

Angela Bocage
(Gay Comix #11, 13)
Angela Bocage is a nationally syndicated cartoonist, a graphics editor for the AIDS News Service, and is the creator and editor of Real Girl, a comic anthology for all genders and all orientations. Bocage has two children and is active in the fight for reproductive freedom for all women. Her work has been seen in Frighten the Horses, Wimmen's Comix, Weird Smut, Girljock, and in anthology books such as Women's Glibber, Strip AIDS USA, and Choices. Real Girl is available from Fantagraphics, 7563 Lake City Way, Seattle, WA 98115.

Theo Bogart (Theo Van Den Boogaard)
(Gay Comix #1, 3, 5)
Living in Holland, Theo Bogart has had work published in U-Comix Sonderband and a 1980 issue of The Advocate. His current whereabouts and other credits are unknown.

Paige Braddock
(Gay Comics #24, 25)
Paige Braddock polished her knack for whimsy during her youth in the rural south, where she says there isn't much to do but doodle. She currently works as the graphics editor for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Her cartoon work has appeared in Girlfriends, The Blade, L.A. Girl Guide, Hysteria, Curve, The Woman Rebel, and Dyke Strippers. To contact her, write P.O. Box 1115, Atlanta, GA 30301, or via e-mail to janetoon@mindspring.com. And you can "See Jane" on the web at http://www.reuben.org/janesworld/.

Jean Daniel Breque
(Gay Comix #8)
The whereabouts and credits of Jean Daniel Breque are unknown.

Kalynn Campbell
(Gay Comix #8)
Robert Triptow gratefully admits that Kalynn Campbell illustrated a cover for Gay Comix in a pinch, from Triptow's idea. The ostensibly hetero Campbell's credits include an ongoing role as cover artist for Paul Krassner's Realist magazine, with work appearing in Mother Jones, The Utne Reader, The Nation, and The L.A. Times. Then there are the Haight-Ashbury posters he did for Vanity Fair; illustrations for Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart's book Planet Drum; work for the Disney Channel, Billboard Magazine, the City of Los Angeles, Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Smashing Pumpkins, Adam Ant, Black Crows, Blues Travellers, and Billy Idol; album covers for Tom Petty and Emerson, Lake & Palmer; and more than can be mentioned here. Campbell lives, works, and exhibits in Los Angeles. Most recently, he illustrated the entire Epitaph Records web site (www.epitaph.com), and you can see his website at http://users.aol.com/driveway66/KCampbell.html.

Rick Campbell
(Gay Comix #4, 5 / Gay Comics #25)
In recent years, Rick Campbell has been writing and drawing comics for his own enjoyment and sharing them with friends. He hangs out on the internet on the #gaygifs channel on DALnet using the nick RickTX.

Jennifer Camper
(Gay Comix #2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 11–14 / Gay Comics #15, 17, 20, 24, 25)
Jennifer Camper's work has appeared in newspapers, comic books, magazines, anthologies – and on postcards, refrigerator doors, and bathroom walls. Her cartoons are collected in Rude Girls and Dangerous Women, published by Laugh Lines Press (rozwarren@aol.com). She is currently working on her comic strip, "subGURLZ," which you can see on the web at http://www.visi.com/~oprairie/.

M. Campos
(Gay Comix #12 / Gay Comics #25)
Mark Campos was first published in Gay Comix. His other work has appeared in Places That Are Gone (Aeon 1994), Hyena, The Stranger, Negative Burn, and other anthologies. He is married to Jeri. His quote is "Dewars' White Label!"

Cherry
(Gay Comix #11)
The whereabouts and credits of Nancy "Cherry" Wilson are unknown. GAY COMICS still has a royalty check for her contribution to issue #11. Pick it up, Cherry, so you can afford that dream vacation to Rio!

Burton Clarke
(Gay Comix #2, 3, 10 / Gay Comics #25)
Burton Clarke, a former New Yorker who now makes San Francisco his home, loves the art of comics even more now than he did as a kid, when he would wait breathlessly for the next issue of Lois Lane to hit the newsstand. A two-years-running winner in the San Francisco Bay Guardian cartoon contest ('93 and '94), his work has also appeared in cartoon exhibitions in California and New York. And, yes, his story in issue 25 of Gay Comics, "Someday My Prints Will Come", is happily autobiographical.

Richard Cornwell
(Gay Comix #6)
Richard Cornwell was born and raised in central California. He moved to the Bay Area in the 1970s. In 1981 he collaborated with cartoonist Michael Goldberg on the script for "Clonederella." The following year he contributed to the writing of another Goldberg satirical fairy tale strip entitled "The Elves and the Leathermaker."

Malachy Coney
(Gay Comics #20, 25)
The Irish Malachy Coney is co-creator (with Sean Doran) of "Major Power & Spunky," which has appeared in Ireland's DV8 and Zipper, as well as in a special collection from Eros Comix (Fantagraphics, 7563 Lake City Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115, or call 800-657-1100). Coney also wrote the gay-themed Dandy Lion for Eros and three fantastic issues of Holy Cross for Fantagraphics. He is currently the writer of The Darkness and Tales of the Darkness from Wildstorm/Image.

Howard Cruse
(Gay Comix #1–6, 10, 11, 14 / Gay Comics #25)
Howard Cruse, perhaps the most important cartoonist in gay history, edited the first four issues of Gay Comix and established its style. His 1970s underground series, Barefootz, partially collected in his book Early Barefootz, was the launching pad for his first gay stories. His comic strip "Wendel" ran in The Advocate and has been anthologized in the books Wendel and Wendel on the Rebound, while much of his other work was collected in Dancin' Nekkid with the Angels. His Piranha Press/DC Comics epic, Stuck Rubber Baby, is one of the finest examples of serious gay cartooning in the medium and has won much recognition, including American, British, and German awards for best graphic novel. Some of Howard's original artwork is available for sale by writing to P.O. Box 728223, Jackson Heights, NY 11372-8223, or by emailing Howard at HCruse1816@aol.com. You can also visit his new website. Howard lives in New York with his partner since 1979, book editor and political activist Ed Sederbaum.

Mike Curtis
(Gay Comics #22, 25)
Mike Curtis is the creator and writer of the Shanda the Panda series and has done other work in the "furry fandom" arena. After four issues at Antarctic Press, a stint at Vision Comics, Curtis and his wife Carole (Katmandu)now self publish the book along with a line of anthropomorphic comics. You can contact them at Shanda Fantasy Arts, P.O. Box 2452, Conway, AR 72032. Visit their web page at Shanda Fantasy Arts.

Demian
(Gay Comix #1, 3, 5 / Gay Comics #25)
Demian produces, writes, directs, shoots and acts in theater, film and video projects. He produced the videos "The Right to Marry" (legal marriage for same-sex couples) and "The Fight Before Christmas" (musical about a male couple). Demian also is a still photographer, digital artist, and Web site programmer. He has a doctorate in education and is the director of Partners Task Force for Gay & Lesbian Couples. Contact: 206-935-1206; Sweet Corn Productions, Box 9685, Seattle, WA 98109. demian@buddybuddy.com; www.buddybuddy.com; Box 9685, Seattle, WA 98109.

Rhonda Dicksion
(Gay Comics #15–17, 25)
Rhonda Dicksion has had her cartoons collected in The Lesbian Survival Manual and Stay Tooned, both published by and available from Naiad Press, P.O. Box 10543, Tallahassee, FL 32302 (or call 800-533-1973). The Los Angeles–born cartoonist has also done many comics for other anthology collections from Naiad Press. Rhonda currently lives in Washington.

John Dennis
(Gay Comics #24, 25)
John Dennis is a handsome yet still-single guy who can barely cook — but boy, can he draw guys in tights and capes! John has penciled and/or inked for nearly every major comics publisher in North America. His work has been seen in Savage Sword of Conan, The Realm, Caliber Presents, West Coast Avengers Annual, Wonder Woman Annual, and in some of DC's TSR comics.

Diane DiMassa
(Gay Comics #22, 25)
Diane DiMassa is the creator of the comic-zine Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist, which has been appearing quarterly for seven years from Giant Ass Publishing. Besides the first 20 issues, there are also two paperback anthologies which were published by Cleis Press. Recently DiMassa was given the opportunity to create an installation for the "Nowhere" exhibit of contemporary culture at the Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, which involved 5,000 issues of the Hothead zine, 15,000 related postcards, and a dumpster. Hothead is not quite quarterly at the moment, as DiMassa is concentrating more on having her work in book form. On the burner are a "Chicken" (Hothead's cat) book and a "Letters to Hothead" compilation with answers and illustrations. For a catalog or correspondence, write to Giant Ass Publishing, P.O. Box 214, New Haven, CT 06502. Hothead Paisan was also part of Out of the Inkwell, a four-segment play presented in 1994 by San Francisco's Theatre Rhinoceros, and DiMassa's work has been featured in Strange Looking Exile, Frighten the Horses, The Advocate, and Oh..... You can e-mail her at Firebutt@aol.com.

Catherine Doherty
(Gay Comics #23, 25)
Catherine DohertyÕs published work has appeared in Vancouver's Room of One's Own (vol. 18:3) and London's Diva Magazine, and she has had a frequent page in Siren, a bimonthly Toronto magazine for lesbian and bisexual women. She is currently completing her first book, Can Of Worms (Fantagraphics Books), an autobiographical dark comedy about growing up adopted. Catherine also works as a production designer for film, and has a new girl band called Guppyboy. Born and raised in Toronto, she now makes her home in Los Angeles.

Gerard Donelan
(Gay Comix #7, 10 / Gay Comics #25)
Donelan first appeared in The Advocate in the late '70s in response to Anita Bryant's attempt to destroy the popularity of orange juice. His "It's a Gay Life" page became a popular feature for 15 years as The Advocate rose to national prominence. Broadening his scope, Donelan moved into the "adult" field, published two collections, has been translated into languages as diverse as Dutch and Korean, and is now featured in the biweekly national newsmagazine Frontiers. Donelan still lives and works in San Francisco with his lover Christopher and their weird cat Spooky.

Sean Doran
(Gay Comics #20, 25)
Hailing from Ireland, Sean Doran is the co-creator (with Malachy Coney) of "Major Power & Spunky," which has appeared in Ireland's DV8 and Zipper, as well as a one-shot collection from Eros Comix.

Kurt Erichsen
(Gay Comix #1, 3, 4, 6–8, 11, 12 / Gay Comics #20, 22, 25)
Kurt Erichsen is the artist behind "Murphy's Manor," which has been syndicated to gay and lesbian newspapers since 1982. It is the gay and lesbian press' longest-running comic strip. Erichsen has also been one of the mainstays of the Meatmen anthology books, with collections of "Murphy's Manor" cartoons and original stories which include "The Nine Billion Names of Penis" and "Little Red Riding Crop." Kurt lives in Toledo with John Widemer, his partner of 15 years. He is not now, nor has he ever been, the pet of a pair of gay gerbils (see Gay Comics #22). He has also had work published in Starlog, Science Fiction Review, and Comics Feature, as well as a collection of his strips from Leyland Publications called Under the Covers/Between the Sheets.

Leslie Ewing
(Gay Comix #6, 11, 12, 14 / Gay Comics #17, 25)
Leslie Ewing is an Oakland resident who's been cartooning since 1983. She's appeared in Wimmen's Comix, Strip AIDS USA, Choices, Dyke Strippers, Off Our Backs, and other anthologies. Her monthly cartoon, "Mid-Dyke Crisis," currently runs in the San Francisco women's paper Icon. Much of Leslie's commentary is drawn from her experiences in community work. She was the volunteer coordinator for the Washington, DC, display of the Names Project AIDS memorial quilt in 1988 and 1989 and was on the National Steering Committee for the 1993 March On Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation. She currently serves as president of the board of directors of the AIDS Emergency Fund in San Francisco.

J.A. Fludd
(Gay Comics #16–18, 20, 23, 25)
J.A. Fludd is a New York artist. He's written for the Fantaco Chronicles, and he belongs to the Gaylactic Network, the international organization of gay and lesbian science fiction fans. He contributed artwork to the Super Deck! trading card game, and has exhibited and sold art at SF and comic conventions around the country. He is presently working on an elaborate graphic novel set in his own super-hero universe, in which characters of different races as well as sexualities inhabit the same, science-fiction-oriented storylines. He has also recently been working behind the scenes on television's Star Trek franchise.

Julie Franki
(Gay Comics #17, 18, 20, 25)
Julie Franki is a native Texan currently living in Kansas City. When she's not drawing her own comics, she enjoys reading other people's, especially "Dykes to Watch Out For," Desert Peach, Love & Rockets, and Naughty Bits. Her favorite movie is Harold and Maude.

Leanne Franson
(Gay Comics #18, 22, 24, 25)
Leanne Franson is a bilingual, bi dyke living in Montreal with her cat and dog. She's currently looking for a sperm donor and an experienced (butch?) top. Anyone offering, or who would like a copy of her comic zine Liliane (issues 1-32 $1.50 each) or the 88-page collection of her work, Assume Nothing ($12.00 postpaid), can contact her at P.O. Box 274, Succ. Place du Parc, Montreal, PQ, Canada H2W 2N8. Her work has also appeared in England's Dyke's Delight, as well as Naughty Bits, Girljock, Brat Attack, and Strange Looking Exile.

Vaughn Frick
(Gay Comix #3–5, 7, 8, 13, 14 / Gay Comics #15, 22, 25)
Political and satirical, Vaughn Frick has been a longtime environmental activist and Radical Faerie. A collection of his strips, entitled Watch Out! Comix, is available from Last Gasp. He has also appeared in Meatmen, Strip AIDS USA, Annie Sprinkle Is Miss Timed, RFD, and PDXS. He resides in Portland, Oregon, and produces the environmental strip called "Cascadia" for The Portland Alliance and Earth First Journal.

Billy Fugate
(Gay Comix #1, 3)
When last heard of, Fugate had illustrated some stories for comic versions of Disney's Little Mermaid. He has lived in Kentucky and Florida, has worked in animation, educational comic books, and T-shirt design. His current whereabouts and other credits are unknown.

Michael J. Goldberg
(Gay Comix #5–8, 10–14 / Gay Comics #22, 25)
Moving to San Francisco from the East Coast in 1979, Michael Goldberg joined the ranks of San Francisco gay cartoonists when his first strip, "Clonederella," was serialized in the Bay Area Reporter in 1981. Becoming good friends with new Gay Comix editor Robert Triptow, Goldberg contributed his popular gay "funny animal" character, "Swishy Fishy." Goldberg's other comic work has appeared in Choices and Strip AIDS USA, as well as several volumes of Meatmen. In 1991 he moved to Portland, Oregon. An avid collector of 20th century "stuff," Goldberg applied his writing and editing skills to books about collectibles. His publications include Collectible Plastic: Kitchenware and Dinnerware: 1935-1965, as well as Groovy Kitchen Designs for Collectors and a book on collecting men's neckties, The Ties That Blind. He contributed text for Alberto Vargas: The Esquire Years and a book on vintage calendar illustration for Collectors Press in Tigard, Oregon. Goldberg is a regular contributor of articles on antiques and collectibles for Antique Trader Weekly, Collector Magazine and Today's Collector.

Diana Green
(Gay Comics #18, 25)
Diana Green is 44 years old, bisexual, and a post-operative transsexual. Since her last Gay Comics appearance, she has been staff cartoonist for the sadly demised Transisters magazine; she now cartoons for the Transsexual News Telegraph. Her strip "Tranny Towers" ran in Minneapolis' Lavender Magazine from January 1995 through May 1996. In Fall '98 she will enter her senior year as a comic book illustration major at Minnepaolis College of Art & Design. She's recently finished a design and illustration assignment for the Minnesota AIDS project. Everyone's sick of her bragging about her brief apprenticeship with Reed Waller, so she won't do so here. Email her at dgreen2@earthlink.net

Roberta Gregory
(Gay Comix #1–7, 10–14 / Gay Comics #15–17, 20, 21, 23, 25)
Roberta Gregory has drawn comics ever since she could hold a crayon, but didn't publish until her college days in the early 1970s. Finding the first issue of Wimmen's Comix inspirational (if a bit lopsided in favor of heterosexuality), she submitted "A Modern Romance," which appeared in issue #4 in 1974. Meanwhile, her strip "Feminist Funnies" was running in a college publication, and in 1976 she expanded the cast to fill a complete comix book, Dynamite Damsels, which she self-published. This established her as the first female solo publisher in underground comix, and the book was the second openly lesbian comic! In the 1970s and '80s, she created stories for Wimmen's Comix and Tits & Clits and self-published two book projects: Sheila and the Unicorn and Winging It. She also appeared in benefit books such as Choices and Strip AIDS USA. In the '90s her career kicked into high gear. The first issue of Naughty Bits appeared in early 1991 as a one-shot and has since gone on to achieve a modest amount of success (in alternative comics terms), with over 20 issues published, four book collections, and numerous awards and award nominations! Other ongoing projects have been Artistic Licentiousness and a weekly "Bitchy Bitch" strip, besides contributions to Real Stuff, Aesop's Fables, England's Dyke's Delight, Duplex Planet, Real Girl, ZU, Graphic Story Monthly, and Gauntlet. Roberta holds the distinction of appearing in more issues of Gay Comics than any other cartoonist. For more information and a free catalog of her work, send a SASE to her at P.O. Box 27438, Seattle, WA 98125. E-mail her at rgregory@scn.org and see her "Bitchy Bitch" strip at her web site at http://www.robertagregory.com or at http://www.visi.com/~oprairie/.

Groc
(Gay Comix #13)
British cartoonist Groc has been seen in Buddies and other places, including in his own zine, Ginger.

Daerick Gross, Sr.
(Gay Comix #14 / Gay Comics #24, 25)
Daerick Gross, Sr., is the award-winning artist who painted The Vampire Lestat (still in print as a trade paperback). His other work includes Forbidden Planet, Queen of the Damned, Batman: Two-Face, various Marvel projects, and Bloodwulf for Image. In the late '70s he was the cartoonist of "Kelly Kodick" for Playgirl. He has recently drawn Spider-Man Online and Excalibur for Marvel, as well as some more erotic work for Carnal Comics.

Paul Guinan
(Gay Comics #23, 25)
Paul Guinan created the Heartbreakers series with his wife, Anina Bennett. Paul has illustrated books ranging from Aliens and Terminator to Urban Legends and The Big Book of Conspiracies and is currently the penciler of Chronos for DC. The Heartbreakers series has been published by Dark Horse, and an all-new collection is planned this summer, from Image.

Craig Hamilton
(Gay Comics #18, 25)
Craig Hamilton was the artist for DC's spectacular Aquaman mini-series (1986) and The Sea Woman Portfolio (1992). He's recently done some work on DC's Starman (#28, and the upcoming #45), as well as pin-ups, posters, and short stories for DC and Marvel. He lives with his partner of ten years, Jody Haynes, in Georgia.

Tony Harris
(Gay Comics #18)
Tony Harris exploded onto the comic world in the first two issues of Innovation's Nightmares on Elm Street (written by Andy Mangels). He's since done work for Nightbreed, Green Lantern Quarterly, and Punisher, but he's most famous for his award-winning work on DC's Starman series. He resides in Georgia.

Andy Hartzell
(Gay Comics #23, 25)
Andy Hartzell is proud of his status as the token gay cartoonist from the southwest. He has self-published several books, including a collection of "Walter Ego" strips, and has been a frequent contributor to Duplex Planet and Don't Shoot, It's Only Comix. Keep an eye out for his newest title, the Xeric Award–winning Bread & Circuses, which you can order for $4 postpaid from Moe Press, 3814 E. Cherokee, Las Vegas, NV 89121.

Joan Hilty
(Gay Comix #13, 14 / Gay Comics #18, 20, 22, 24, 25)
Joan Hilty's super-powered and mere-mortal dyke dramas have appeared in The Village Voice, The Advocate, Girljock, Real Girl, and Oh...., as well as the anthologies Sportsdykes, Girlfriend Number One and Dyke Strippers. Originally from Northern California, she now works as an editor for the VERTIGO imprint of DC Comics in New York City. Her solo book, featuring Immola and the Luna Legion and published as Oh.... #8, can be ordered for $4.45 from B Publications, P.O. Box 41030, Cordova Bay Road, Victoria, BC V8Y 2KO, Canada. After July 1998, it can be ordered directly from her; for details, E-mail her at kaibito@mindspring.com.

Rand Holmes
(Gay Comix #1)
Canadian artist Rand Holmes is most famous for his underground series Harold Hedd. That character was also featured in an early gay scene in All Canadian Beaver Comix of 1973, pre–Gay Comix. He lives on an island off the coast of Canada with his female significant other.

Jeff Jacklin
(Gay Comix #8 / Gay Comics #25)
Jeff Jacklin's first appearance in Gay Comix was in issue #8, featuring a character he created for a Minneapolis lesbian and gay newspaper. He also contributed work to Strip AIDS USA. The characters in his story "Midway" in this issue are the subject of a graphic novel he has been working on for a couple of years. In the time between issues #8 and 25, he has illustrated children's craft books and puzzles and worked as an animation assistant on such projects as Fox's Spider-Man and an animated Peter Rabbit CD-ROM. As a freelance illustrator in Minneapolis, he produced storyboards and animatic illustrations for the Department of Defense, among other clients. Jeff recently self-published Tales from the Queer Side, a gay-themed science-fiction and fantasy zine. When not at the drawing board, he enjoys hobbies such as weight-lifting and model aviation. He currently lives in Arizona. You can contact him at jeffdraw@hotmail.com.

Peter Keane
(Gay Comix #10, 13 / Gay Comics #25)
According to Robert Triptow, the cutest art director the Bay Area Reporter ever had was Peter Keane, a collage artist and painter. Peter drew Triptow's concept of the sad-eyed leatherman in the Walter/Margaret Keane style for the cover of Gay Comix #10, and he thought up the "Acquired Pronoun Deficiency Syndrome" strip that was illustrated by Michael Goldberg for issue #13. By then Peter had died of AIDS (in February 1989), and his cat, Stubby, was adopted by Triptow.

David Kelly
(Gay Comics #23, 25)
David Kelly writes and draws Steven's Comics, a self-syndicated comic strip about life as seen through the eyes of a gay pre-teen. His latest collection, Steven's Comics: New Best Friend, is the follow-up to the Xeric award-winner Steven's Comics: We Are Family. David co-edits Boy Trouble, a queer boy comic anthology, with fellow cartoonist Robert "Curbside" Kirby. For more information and a free catalog, please send an SASE to David at 1122 E. Pike St., Suite 992, Seattle, WA 98122. You can email him at DKPress@aol.com, or visit his website at http://www.visi.com/~oprairie/.

Sam Kieth
(Gay Comics #24)
Sam Kieth is the creator of The Maxx, the best-selling comic book from Image Comics. The Maxx was an animated series on MTV and is available on video, with a Paramount movie in the works. Sam has worked on other popular series, illustrating the original issues of Sandman, as well as stories for The Incredible Hulk and Wolverine, among others. The Maxx story in Gay Comics #24 was the first one not published by Image!

Robert Kirby
(Gay Comics #17, 20, 25)
Robert Kirby lives in Minneapolos. His self-syndicated comic strip "Curbside" can be read in gay and alternative papers across North America, and on the internet at http://www.visi.com/~oprairie/. His comics have also appeared in a wide variety of books and magazines, such as The Factsheet Five Zine Reader (Crown), The Question of Equality (Scribner), The Advocate, and dozens of queer zines. He co-edits Boy Trouble, a queer-boy comic anthology, with David Kelly ($3.00 to DK Press, 1122 E. Pike St. 992, Seattle, WA 98122), and this summer will finally release the first "Curbside" collection, thanks to a grant from the Xeric Foundation. You can e-mail him for details.

Ralf König
(Gay Comics #15, 16)
Ralf König is a well-known German cartoonist who studied at Düsseldorf's National Academy of Fine Arts. In Germany he has published over 20 graphic novels and cartoon collections. Though his other work has been translated in European countries from France to Denmark, in 14 languages, only three translated works of his are available in the U.S.: The Killer Condom from Catalan Communications, Bulls Balls from BK Press (3010 Cedar St., Box G, Austin, TX 78705 for $18.95), and the recent Maybe.... Maybe Not from Ignite! Entertainment ($14.95 postpaid, Ignite Entertainment!, P.O. Box 2273, Grand Central Station, New York, NY 10163). Two films have been produced from his work: Maybe.... Maybe Not from Live Entertainment Video with subtitles, while The Killer Condom has been released in a subtitled form from Troma Pictures.

David Kottler
(Gay Comix #3)
The whereabouts and credits of David Kottler are unknown.

Kris Kovick
(Gay Comics #17, 22)
Kris Kovick is a San Francisco writer and cartoonist whose book, What I Love About Lesbian Politics Is Arguing With People I Agree With (Alyson Press), has a really long title. She's now producing the zine Burning Bush and illustrating the Bible in all its sexy and gory reality! She's had 'toons in Real Girl, Girljock, Deneuve, Frighten the Horses, and many lesbian/feminist books.

Jeffrey A. Krell
(Gay Comix #6–8, 10–12 / Gay Comics #25)
Jeffrey A. Krell created "Jayson" on Christmas Day 1982 — the last holiday he will ever spend with his parents. "Jayson" debuted the following year in the Philadelphia Gay News, then went national in 1985 with the first of many stories for Gay Comix. Two years later "Jayson" appeared in the inaugural volume of Meatmen, and has since appeared in many issues of that anthology series. For the past few years, Jeff has been collaborating with Ron Romanovsky and Paul Phillips on a Jayson musical, which will open this summer in New York City. A complete 176-page collection of Jayson comics is available for $16.95 postpaid from Ignite Entertainment!, P.O. Box 2273, Grand Central Station, New York, NY 10163. You can e-mail Jeff at jeffkrell@aol.com or visit his web site at http://ignite-ent.com.

Julia Lacquement
(Gay Comics #18, 25)
Julia Lacquement is one of the comic industry's best color artists. Her work includes Green Arrow, Rick O'Shay, Wonder Woman, Elementals, Modesty Blaise, and Captain Sternn. More recently she has worked for Milestone, especially on the mini-series Heroes, which featured two openly lesbian characters. Though known in comics as a colorist she is also gaining recognition as a science-fiction and fantasy illustrator, with regular appearances in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, and collections of her illustrations appearing in a series of CD-ROMs by CD Titles. She lives in Arizona, and can be reached by email at Tiggerz1@ aol.com.

Michele Lloyd
(Gay Comix #5)
The whereabouts and credits of Michele Lloyd are unknown.

Stephen Lowther
(Gay Comix #11, 12, 14 / Gay Comics #17, 20, 22, 25)
Stephen Lowther is a medical archivist in Old London Town who has declined offers to draw comics full-time because he wants "drawing to stay fun." His work has appeared in many publications over the last twelve years, including Buddies, Heartbreak Hotel, Avalon, Trident, Him, and many volumes of Meatmen, as well as the recent anthology Ersatz Peach. Much of his work has been in collaboration with Howard Stangroom. Lowther alternates comic art with cataloguing 19th century medical theses and pamphlets, which he claims is "much more interesting than you'd think."

Marc Lynx
(Gay Comics #24, 25)
Marc Lynx is a two-stepper and software tester from the San Francisco Bay area. Under the name Jim Drew, he has been drawing editorial cartoons for the gay and lesbian newspaper OutNOW! since early 1993. He also published a number of issues of the queer comic review zine Ciao!

Jon Macy
(Gay Comics #23, 25)
Jon Macy is best known for his underground comic book series Tropo. He is now a full-time pornographer doing hard-core gay sex comics for such illustrious magazines as Meatmen, Wilde, and Bunkhouse. He is the set designer for the Nesting Dolls dance company, and, in true renaissance style, he is the personal pornographer to a secret diaper fetishist. Eight issues of his "gender bending" comic book series Nefarismo were published by the thoroughly debauched Eros Comix (Fantagraphics, 7563 Lake City Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115 or call 800-657-1100).

Beck Main
(Gay Comics #23, 25)
Beck Main is an Australian cartoonist who has self-enduring obsessions with sheep, sputnik, Barbie (the doll, not cooking of meat), ants, and aliens, all of which have appeared somewhere in her cartoon and comic work. That work has been seen in Lesbians on the Loose, The Sydney Star Observer, Westside Observer, QueerZine, Scratch, and Dyke Strippers (from Cleis Press). She used to co-edit and publish Drawing Away, an Australian anthology of womenÕs comics, and she has also worked in commercial animation. You can contact her by writing P.O. Box 541, Kings Cross, NSW 2011, Australia, or you can e-mail her at beckmain@one.net.au

Andy Mangels
(Gay Comix #14, Special #1 / Gay Comics #15–25)
Andy Mangels edits Gay Comics and has written for many comic publishers, including such diverse series as ElfQuest: Blood of Ten Chiefs, Friday the 13th, Child's Play, Nightmares on Elm Street, Justice League Quarterly, Annie Sprinkle Is Miss Timed, Bloodwulf, Troll, Badrock & Company, UltraVerse Premiere, and the best-selling Boba Fett: Twin Engines of Destruction. His Quantum Leap #9 (Innovation), set during the week of the Stonewall riots, created a national stir. He tries to include gay and lesbian characters in every comic he writes. He has written two books: Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Characters (Del Rey) and Beyond Mulder and Scully: The Mysterious Characters of The X-Files (Citadel Press). He has more recently written the on-line interactive comic series RE-Man for Microsoft and has co-written (with Mike Martin) Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and other Star Trek projects for Marvel, introducing lesbian characters into the DS9 series. He writes a weekly Hollywood gossip column at http://Mania.com called "Hollywood Heroes," and is now working on his third book, tentatively titled From Scream to Dawson's Creek: The World of Kevin Williamson (Renaissance Books, Fall 98). Finally, Mangels is publisher and editor of an erotic magazine called IN UNIFORM The Magazine. Visit the web site at http://www.teleport.com/~uniform. You can e-mail him at AMangelsSW@aol.com.

Patrick Marcel
(Gay Comix #3, 4, 6–8, 12, 13)
A French artist, Patrick Marcel also translates English science fiction into French and has been publishing Manticora, a horror & fantasy fanzine. He has been preparing for years a huge fantasy/funny animal/gay saga and hopes that, when it gets underway, it will have been worth it. You can e-mail him at manticor@cyberstation.fr.

J.D. March, aka Ajax
(Gay Comix #14 / Gay Comics #18, 22, 24, 25)
J.D. March is a bi dyke sharing rent in California, with another witch and a bevy of female beasts. She has been a cartoonist since 1983 and has been published in Lesbian Contradiction and a variety of smaller zines. She is a survivor of the military lifestyle, an urban witch, and considered by some to be playing with the major arcana missing. Her favorite quote is: "A warped mind is a terrible thing to waste."

Lee Marrs
(Gay Comix #1–4 / Gay Comics #25)
Lee Marrs' career has spanned the range of modern media, but around 1972 her concentration narrowed to two fields she continues to pursue: comic books and animation. One of the founding mommies of the Wimmen's Comix collective, the majority of her work has appeared in the underground and alternative press, with such series as Unicorn Isle, Pudge: Girl Blimp, The Compleat Fart, and Wimmen's Comix. She received comicdom's Inkpot Award in 1982. Her mainstream work includes humor and horror stories for Plop!, Crazy Magazine, Epic Illustrated, and Heavy Metal. More recent work includes scripts for a DC graphic novel, Viking Glory, as well as Wonder Woman, Legends of the Dark Knight, and Zatanna. For Dark Horse, she wrote two Indiana Jones mini-series, and last year she wrote the Vertigo mini-series Fault Lines. Today she still scripts comics, as well as working for software game companies and her own audio-visual and animation company, Lee Marrs Artwork. To top it off, she won an Emmy Award for her work as a TV art director!

Sean Martin
(Gay Comics #16, 18, 25)
Sean Martin is a Canadian cartoonist and playwright whose "Doc & Raider" has been appearing in gay magazines for many years. A line of T-shirts is available, as well as two book collections, Caught on Tape and Amazingly LIFE-Like (Queer Press of Toronto). The series is housed in the National Archives of Canada, a first for a gay comic strip! You can e-mail him at PutEmUp40@aol.com.

P. Mastin
(Gay Comix #7)
The whereabouts and credits of British cartoonist Pete Mastin are unknown.

Melissa Bay Mathis
(Gay Comix #2)
The whereabouts and credits of Melissa Bay Mathis are unknown.

Steve Matuszak
(Gay Comics #18, 24, 25)
Steve Matuszak has had work in Caliber Presents, Dadaville (Caliber), and Boy Trouble. He's worked six years in Minneapolis' stand-up comedy circuit. In 1997 he won comicdom's prestigious Xeric grant and used the fund to self-publish Most Likely to Succeed. You can order copies of that ($4.00 postpaid) or his own zine, Killjoy, from Killjoy Press, P.O. Box 581036, Minneapolis, MN 55458-1036.

Brandon McKinney
(Gay Comics #24, 25)
Brandon McKinney is an illustrator living in Oakland. He illustrated the Star Wars Trilogy "Big Little Book" style books (Chronicle), and has been the artist on such diverse comics as Godzilla, ElfQuest, and Child's Play. He also works in animation, with his character "Chainsaw Bob" appearing in several animation festivals and a Converse/Foot Locker commercial. His work will be seen in the upcoming book, Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Planets (Del Rey), and in an upcoming Indiana Jones "Big Little Book" style book.

Jerry Mills
(Gay Comix #4–6, 9 / Gay Comics #25)
Jerry Mills was the creator of "Poppers," a brilliant strip which began in April 1982 in In Touch magazine. Jerry worked there in the subscriptions department when then-editor John Calendo encouraged him to do a regular sex comic to sandwich between the buns and the beefcake. In the mid-1980s, "Poppers" was translated and published in the French gay weekly magazine Gai Pied Hebdo and in the Japanese monthly magazine Barazoko. Jerry also wrote an eight-page history of gays in comics for the first Meatmen book, published by Leyland Publications in 1986. Jerry later got a job in the classifieds department at Advocate Men, which then sporadically printed "Poppers" until editorial indecision and growing health complications forced Jerry to lay down his pen in his prime. Mills died January 28, 1993, of complications from a long battle with HIV. He is survived by his life partner, Sal Lucarello.

Andrea Natalie
(Gay Comix #13, 14 / Gay Comics #15, 16, 18, 25)
Andrea Natalie came out as a dyke in New York in 1980 and began syndicating her single-panel cartoon series, "Stonewall Riots," in 1989. Her strip has been seen nationally in the lesbian and gay press, and three collections are in print: Stonewall Riots, The Night Audrey's Vibrator Spoke, and Rubyfruit Mountain. The former is available from Venus Envy, 7100 Boulevard East, Guttenburg, NJ 07093, and the latter two are available from Cleis Press, P.O. Box 8933, Pittsburgh, PA 15221. Natalie's work has also appeared in England's Dyke's Delight.

Matthew Nelson
(Gay Comics #16)
Matthew Nelson's work also appeared in a few issues of Bear magazine. His whereabouts and other credits are unknown.

Brad Parker
(Gay Comix #12 / Gay Comics #25)
California artist Brad Parker has been all over the map in comics. His early work was sexually explicit cartoons for gay magazines such as In Touch, Skin, Stroke, Friction, Advocate Men, Male Review, and others. Many of his strips were collected in the trade paperback Oh, Boy! (Leyland Publications). Parker dabbled in mainstream comics for a while with such kung-fu titles as Tales of the Kung-Fu Warriors and Tales of the Rei-Ki Warriors, then went into commercial artwork, designing video games and computer programs. More recently he has reappeared in comics, computer-painting for Marvel Comics in the mini-series Code of Honor. He is also staff artist for the action figure magazine, Go Figure.

Stephanie Pennington
(Gay Comics #23–25)
Stephanie Pennington is a Californian who, until recently, was living in Augsburg, Germany. As a child, she could never decide who she more desperately wanted to be: Mr. Steed or Ms. Peel. Sometimes a thespian (with a th), she enjoys drawing comics. Her work has also been seen in many issues of OhÉ

George Pérez
(Gay Comics #20)
George Pérez is one of the most respected artists in the comics business, having worked on virtually every mainstream super-hero comic over his long career: The Avengers, Fantastic Four, Justice League of America, New Teen Titans, Crisis on Infinite Earths, and more. He wrote and/or drew Wonder Woman from 1987-92, introducing the first openly lesbian and gay characters in the book's 50-year history! He's now back at Marvel, working on The Avengers again, and is continuing work on his creator-owned project, Crimson Plague.

Milo Poulsen
(Gay Comix #5 / Gay Comics #25)
Milo Poulsen was born in 1929 in Copenhagen and is a retired major from the Danish army, where he once did illustrations enticing young college boys to choose a career in the Army. He actively paints and draws and is especially fond of illustrating male nudes. He does not sell his art, with the exception of his one-page contribution to Gay Comix. He was widowed in 1976, is a father of three, and a grandfather of seven. In 1996 he entered into Denmark's "registered partnership" with his friend of 20 years, Torsten. He is currently a teacher in Danish for refugees given asylum in Denmark. You can email him at bkb3266@vip.cybercity.dk

Jacki Randall
(Gay Comix #14 / Gay Comics #16, 18, 25)
Jacki Randall is adept in creative fields including art, music, and verse. She has received criticism alleging her perversity, as well as an official gubernatorial commendation and commissions from houses of worship! Her fetishes include skin art, 88 keys, powerful machines, Morse code, and chance. Her cartoons have shown up in On Our Backs, Bad Attitude, Her, Outlook, Jewish Times, Baltimore Sun, Lesbian Connection, Lesbian Contradiction, Independent Biker, Outrageous Women, Tattoo Review, On Our Rag, Girljock, Calyx, and many others. She was profiled in Tabu Tattoo magazine for her tattoo work. Randall now resides in Baltimore, MD.

Laura Rebecca
(Gay Comics #18)
Laura Rebecca cartoons in Los Angeles. Her other credits are unknown.

Jeff Richard
(Gay Comics #15, 16)
Jeff Richard is a Portland-based comic fan and collector of Ralf König's work. He discovered them during a two-year stint in Berlin, doing solar and "cultural" research. Jeff translated two of König's safe-sex pamphlets from German for Gay Comics. He now works at an environmental science firm in Portland and collects adult comics.

Trina Robbins
(Gay Comix #6, 11 / Gay Comics #25)
Trina Robbins is one of the best-known women in comics history, not only for her own cartoons but also for her work promoting other women in the industry. She wrote the books A Century of Women Cartoonists and The Great Women Superheroes for Kitchen Sink and co-wrote Women and the Comics with cat yronwode. Her next book, coming out in 1999 from Chronicle Books, is a history of girls' comics entitled From Girls to Grrrlz. Trina also edited and published Choices, a pro-choice benefit book, and co-edited Strip AIDS USA, a 1988 benefit anthology from Last Gasp featuring 121 comics creators donating strips and one-pagers. She is also credited as writing the first openly lesbian comic character, in the story "Sandy Comes Out" in Wimmen's Comix #1. She is also credited with the first all-woman comic book, It Ain't Me, Babe, in 1970. More recently, her writing and art have graced the pages of Meet Misty,ÊCalifornia Girls, The Legend of Wonder Woman, Barbie, The Little Mermaid, and many other series. She lives in San Francisco with her longtime partner, inker and illustrator Steve Leialoha.

P. Craig Russell
(Gay Comics #21, 25)
Phillip Craig Russell is one of the comic world's most respected and award-winning artists, and he remains the most high-profile, openly gay creator in the business. The Ohio-born creator began at Marvel while he was a junior in college. Today he is known for his gorgeous adaptations of classic operas, as well as his versions of books such as Michael Moorcock's Elric and Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book. Russell continues to work in mainstream comics, as well, bringing his own brand of classical artistic sensibilities to them. Recent work has included stories in various Batman titles for DC and Star Wars titles for Dark Horse. His strongest series to date has been The Fairy Tales Of Oscar Wilde, a hardcover set from NBM Publishing. For his work on those books, Russell won the Harvey Award for best graphic album and the Eisner Award for best artist. In 1993 he also received the Inkpot Award for career achievement. He came out to the industry in an interview with The Comics Journal (#147, Dec. 1991), where he referred to himself as "just another left-handed, night-dwelling, gay libertarian cartoonist."

David Sexton
(Gay Comics #21, 25)
David Sexton currently lives with his lover Doug in Miami Beach, where he owns Ironworks Gym. His other published work has appeared in Taboo from Kitchen Sink and IN UNIFORM The Magazine. He has a tarot deck coming out this fall from U.S. Game Systems. Sexton's professional comics career began when he met his idol, P. Craig Russell, at the Chicago Comic Con. The two collaborated on the story "Satan and the Savior" for Taboo and on his first published story in Gay Comics.

Eric Shanower
(Gay Comics #17)
Eric Shanower is the writer and artist of the Oz graphic novels published by First and Dark Horse, as well as many series for DC, Marvel, Epic, and Dark Horse, including An Accidental Death, The Elsewhere Prince, Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor, and recent Star Wars titles. He lives in New Jersey with his lover David and their rat Percy. Upcoming, he is planning a massive retelling of the Trojan War in a black-and-white comic series called Age of Bronze. It will be published by Autumn People Press, 15 Marcy Street, Bloomfield, NJ 07003. That's also where you can write Hungry Tiger Press, the publisher's of Shanower's excellent Oz Story Magazine, a yearly must-have for any fans of the Land of Oz.

Stan Shaw
(Gay Comix #14 / Gay Comics #25)
Stan works as an illustrator for various magazines and comic books. He has done work for clients ranging from the Boy Scouts of America to Rhino Records to The Village Voice. His comic book work includes Sunglasses After Dark and Verotika (Verotik), Billy Nguyen (Attitude Zone and Caliber), Real Stuff (Fantagraphics), Cool World (DC Comics), Creepy and Vampirella (Harris), Cheval Noir, Dark Horse Presents, and Beauty and the Beast (Dark Horse), Elvira (Claypool), and Negative Burn (Caliber). He spends what little time he has remodeling and researching the history and practice of illustration.

Joe Sinardi
(Gay Comix #2, 4, 6 / Gay Comics #25)
Joe Sinardi is the creator of Maxwell Mouse Follies, a series which appeared in 1986 from Renegade Press. His early published work was in the heterosexual naughty magazine Sex to Sexty. His "Gideon" comic strip (making its publishing debut in Gay Comics #25) was an attempt to deliver a gay-themed daily newspaper strip to the syndicates. Joe currently lives in New Orleans and misses Florida.

Skye
(Gay Comix #13) The whereabouts and credits of Skye Smith are unknown.

Cheela Smith
(Gay Comix #3 / Gay Comics #17, 20)
Cheela Smith has specialized in females since her birth in 1957. Her work has appeared in Real Girl, Wimmen's Comix, and Girljock. She is one of the world's leading authorities on Pig Latin and Veeblefetzers. Her whereabouts are unknown.

Terrie Smith
(Gay Comics #22, 25)
Terrie Smith is one of the artists behind the anthropomorphic Shanda the Panda series. Terrie is from California and has contributed to Katmandu and numerous small press publications.

Howard Stangroom
(Gay Comix #11, 12, 14 / Gay Comics #17, 20, 22, 25)
Howard Stangroom is currently happily single, but applications from wealthy and intelligent chubby-chasers are always invited. He runs the 30th Century Comics store in London, England, and occasionally writes comics, most recently for Donna Barr's Ersatz Peach collection. He was the editor of our British counterpart, Buddies, and his other work has appeared in Avalon, Boy Crazy Boy, Heartbreak Hotel, Him, Joy of Sox, Masters of the Universe, Meanwhile..... , She-Ra, Sugar & Spice, the kinky My Little Pony, and several volumes of Meatmen. He often collaborates with Stephen Lowther. He can be e-mailed at Morgan247@bigfoot.com.

Noreen Stevens
(Gay Comix #13, 14 / Gay Comics #15, 25)
Noreen Stevens is a comic artist and activist artist living in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, with her girlfriend Jill and their hamster Hercules. Her strip "The Chosen Family" appears in the gay/lesbian press throughout North America. As well, she is currently working on Mobile Homo, a public art project which merges her 20-year-old dream of owning a bitchin' van with the desire to bring gay/lesbian positive messages to the general public. You can e-mail her at noreen@magic.mb.ca.

T.O. Sylvester
(Gay Comix #5, 6 / Gay Comics #25)
Artist Sylvia Mollick and writer Terry Ryan have been a cartooning team for 20 years. For the past 15 years they've published a weekly literary cartoon feature in the "Review" section of The San Francisco Sunday Chronicle. Their single-panel cartoons have appeared in the pages of Ms. Magazine, Mother Jones, The Saturday Evening Post, Saturday Review, Boy's Life, Datamation, Vegetarian Times, San Francisco Bay Guardian, San Francisco Magazine, The Advocate, Women's Glib calendars, and a number of textbooks and anthologies. In 1993 their cartoons were featured in a three-month exhibit at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco. You may contact them at P.O. Box 31100, San Francisco, CA 94131.

Robert Triptow
(Gay Comix #2, 3, 5–13 / Gay Comics #25)
When Howard Cruse retired as editor, Denis Kitchen turned the editorship of Gay Comix over to San Franciscan Robert Triptow. The talented cartoonist edited from issues #5 to 13, taking the series to new publisher Bob Ross with issue #6. Triptow also co-edited Strip AIDS USA, a 1988 trade paperback anthology from Last Gasp which featured 121 comics creators donating strips and one-pagers. He wrote and edited the book Gay Comics (Plume, 1989), a history of non-pornographic queer cartoonists to that point. Robert loves going back to Salt Lake City and telling the Mormons from his childhood that his work has appeared in titles like Bizarre Sex, Young Lust, Real Girl, Spastic Culture, Filth, and Holy Titclamps. He is now finishing Thrilling Realities, an imaginative compendium of fictitious life stories based on a school photograph from 1937 Brooklyn. There's also a collection of all his past cartoons in the works. E-mail him at rtriptow@skyhouse.org, and visit his web site at http://www.skyhouse.org/robert.

Jacki Urbanovik/Bird
(Gay Comix #4 / Gay Comics #25)
Over the last 46 years, much has changed in Jacki Urbanovik's life, but some things she never outgrew: her love of drawing, her delight in comics and toys, and her crush on her high-school gym teacher. She makes her living as an illustrator and shares a Minneapolis home with two dogs, two cats, and the love of her life. More of her work can be found in Wimmen's Comix #14 and 17, Women's Glibber, Choices, Images of Omaha #1, and The Best Contemporary Women Humorists.

Richard Valley
(Gay Comix #5 / Gay Comics #25)
Richard Valley is the creator, publisher, and editor of Scarlet Street: The Magazine of Mystery and Horror, a bimonthly publication that frequently focuses on gay-themed subjects, as well as old and new horror/detective/sci-fi films and television series. He is the author of the farcical plays A Piece of Cake, Play by Play, Down the Rabbit Hole, and Change Partners, which have been performed in New York, Boston, and Minneapolis, among other cities. The inker of (Gay Comics 25th) issue's contribution is John E. Payne, Scarlet Street's artistic director. For more information, contact Richard Valley at reditor@aol.com or write Scarlet Street Inc., PO Box 604, Glen Rock, NJ 07452.

Ivan Velez, Jr.
(Gay Comics #15, 16, 18, 24, 25)
In the comics mainstream for the last six years, Ivan Velez, Jr., is proudest of writing Blood Syndicate for Milestone Media. There he also worked on Static and My Name Is Holocaust. He wrote a Venom mini-series, Abominations, and Ghost Rider for Marvel, and an Eradicator mini-series for DC, as well as some short stories for both companies. He is best known for his work as writer and artist of Tales of the Closet, the excellent 10-issue series about gay youth, for which he did everything including licking the stamps..... and which he swears will finally be finished soon (back issues of 1-9 are available for $1.50 each from HMI, 2 Astor Place, NY, NY 10003-6998). He's cartooned for Details and NYQ and sold a television script to Cosmic Slop on HBO. HeÕs begun to write full-length scripts. Now if only his agent would call him back......

Reed Waller
(Gay Comics #22)
Reed Waller created the immensely popular, critically acclaimed, anthropomorphic, adults-only series Omaha, The Cat Dancer with his then-wife, Kate Worley. They publicly came out as bisexual in their letters column in 1988, making them the first openly bisexual creators in comics. They have had characters of all sexual orientations in their series, which moved from Kitchen Sink Press to Fantagraphics Books. That latter publisher has several volumes of Omaha in print. Reed's work has included stories in Strip AIDS USA, Critters, Grateful Dead Comix, and Real Girl. Reed is currently developing an interactive CD-ROM project.

Linda Sue Welch
(Gay Comics #18)
When last we knew, Linda Sue Welch resided in Nashville. Her panel "Out of the Darkness" has appeared in dozens of obscure yet progressive newspapers from coast to coast. Her first published work was in Query, Nashville's gay and lesbian weekly magazine. Her current whereabouts are unknown.

Mary Wings
(Gay Comix #1, 2 / Gay Comics #25)
In 1973 Mary Wings made history by releasing Come Out Comix, the first lesbian-oriented underground comic book. Wings created the comic in reaction to a lesbian story by Trina Robbins in Wimmen's Comix #1. Wings later released Dyke Shorts and Are Your Highs Getting You Down? Wings is now retired from comics and has written a number of lesbian detective novels, including She Came to the Castro, She Came by the Book, She Came in a Flash, and Divine Victim.

Kate Worley
(Gay Comics #22)
Best known for her writing on the successful, adults-only series, Omaha, The Cat Dancer, Kate Worley has recently worked on projects as diverse as the 1995 Wonder Woman Annual, the Universal Horror Movie trading card set, John Jakes' Mullkon Empire for Tekno Comics, Roger Rabbit Adventures, and the new Jonny Quest series for Dark Horse. Kate publicly came out as bisexual in the Omaha letters column in 1988, making her and her then-husband Reed Waller the first openly bisexual creators in comics. She now lives in Tulsa with her husband, writer James Vance, and their baby son. You can e-mail her at Kate.Worley@gratisnet.com.

Jim Yost
(Gay Comix #4)
The whereabouts and credits of Jim Yost are unknown.

Dave Young
(Gay Comix #14 / Gay Comics #15, 18, 25)
"Bernie" was created in 1980 by cartoonist David Shelton, using the pseudonym "Dave Young." The strip appeared in various gay publications across the U.S. until 1987. David enjoyed the celebrity of being one of a few cartoonists and feature writers represented by Stonewall Features Syndicate, the first all-gay syndicate. For almost ten years, "Bernie" has been absent from the gay press, but Shelton is intent on reviving the strip and dreams to someday see "Bernie" in mainstream papers. David cartoons in Oregon.

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