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Zan Christensen
Northwest Press is an American publisher specializing in LGBT-themed comic books and graphic novels. It was founded in 2010 by Charles "Zan" Christensen. The company publishes in print, as well as through digital channels such as ComiXology and Apple's iBooks, and also retails some similarly-themed books published independently. Controversy Northwest has had repeated conflicts with Apple's content limitations on sales through the iBooks store. In 2011, an adaptation by Tom Bouden of Oscar Wilde's play ''The Importance of Being Earnest'' was only approved after the addition of black bars to cover partial male nudity. The technology company initially permitted the individual issues of Jon Macy's ''Fearful Hunter'', but rejected the collected edition, then removed the issues. The satirical ''Al-Qaeda’s Super Secret Weapon'' was rejected outright. In 2016, Northwest published a self-censored version of ''Hard to Swallow'' by Justin Hall and Dave Davenport – covering the "obje ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seattle, Washington
Seattle ( ) is a port, seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the county seat, seat of King County, Washington, King County, Washington (state), Washington. With a 2020 population of 737,015, it is the largest city in both the U.S. state, state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America. The Seattle metropolitan area's population is 4.02 million, making it the List of metropolitan statistical areas, 15th-largest in the United States. Its growth rate of 21.1% between 2010 and 2020 makes it one of the nation's fastest-growing large cities. Seattle is situated on an isthmus between Puget Sound (an inlet of the Pacific Ocean) and Lake Washington. It is the northernmost major city in the United States, located about south of the Canada–United States border, Canadian border. A major gateway for trade with East Asia, Seattle is the fourth-largest port in North America in terms of container handling . The Seattle area was inhabited by Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bisexual Book Awards
The Bisexual Book Awards are an annual literary award program, presented by the Bi Writers Association to honour the year's best works of literature addressing themes of bisexuality. The awards were presented for the first time in 2013. Awards are presented in 11 categories, where any writer who has addressed bisexual themes in their work may be submitted for consideration regardless of their own sexual orientation. Two special awards are also presented: the Bi Book Publisher Award to the publishing company that has submitted the most books to the awards program that year, and the Bi Writer Award for the best book by an out bisexual writer. 2013 Bisexual Fiction * John Irving, '' In One Person'' *Ellis Avery, ''The Last Nude'' * Annette Lapointe, ''Whitetail Shooting Gallery'' * Catherine Lundoff, ''Silver Moon'' * Lee Mandelo, ''Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction'' * Richard Mason, ''History of a Pleasure Seeker'' * Basil Papademos, ''Mount Royal'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Publishing Companies Established In 2010
Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software and other content available to the public for sale or for free. Traditionally, the term refers to the creation and distribution of printed works, such as books, newspapers, and magazines. With the advent of digital information systems, the scope has expanded to include electronic publishing such as E-book, ebooks, academic journals, micropublishing, Electronic publishing, websites, blogs, video game publisher, video game publishing, and the like. Publishing may produce private, club, commons or public goods and may be conducted as a commercial, public, social or community activity. The commercial publishing industry ranges from large multinational conglomerates such as Bertelsmann, RELX, Pearson plc, Pearson and Thomson Reuters to thousands of small independents. It has various divisions such as trade/retail publishing of fiction and non-fiction, educational publishing K–12, (k-12) and Academic publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Worley
Rick Worley is an American cartoonist, known primarily for his comic strip ''A Waste of Time''. He is openly gay and lives in San Francisco. Career Worley began the strip ''A Waste of Time'' in 2008. A collection of the strips was published by Northwest Press in 2011, followed by a series of new material beginning in 2014. The strip is about an anthropomorphic rabbit named Rick (a stand-in for the creator) and his friends and associates, which include Truckstop (a sexually adventurous fox), Prester (an alcoholic teddy bear), Rickets (an amnesiac robot), and Capitalist Pig (a piggy bank). The series also depicts realistic human characters, including Rick's boyfriends, and fictionalized versions of cartoonists Bill Watterson and Jim Davis. In February 2013, Worley co-curated with Justin Hall the San Francisco art exhibit "Batman on Robin", featuring works exploring the theme of homoeroticism between Batman and Robin. His work has been featured in ''No Straight Lines'': ''F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teleny, Or The Reverse Of The Medal
''Teleny, or, The Reverse of the Medal'', is a pornographic novel, first published in London in 1893. The authorship of the work is unknown. There is a consensus that it was an ensemble effort, but it has often been attributed to Oscar Wilde. Set in fin-de-siècle Paris, its concerns are the magnetic attraction and passionate though ultimately tragic affair between a young Frenchman named Camille Des Grieux and the Hungarian pianist René Teleny. The novel is one of the earliest pieces of English-language pornography that focuses explicitly and near-exclusively on homosexuality (following ''The Sins of the Cities of the Plain'', published in 1881). Its lush and literate, though variable, prose style and the relative complexity and depth of character and plot development share as much with the aesthetic fiction of the period as with its typical pornography. History of publication Wilde's authorship, while unproven, is claimed by erotic bookseller and pornographer Charles Hirsch, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Kelly (cartoonist)
David Kelly may refer to: Entertainers * David Kelly (actor) (1929–2012), Irish actor * Matthew Kelly (born 1950 as David Kelly), English actor and television personality * David Patrick Kelly (born 1951), American actor and musician Sportsmen * David Kelly (Bahamian sailor) (1932–2009), Bahamian Olympic sailor * David Kelly (Australian footballer) (born 1953), Australian footballer for Melbourne * David Kelly (United States Virgin Islands sailor) (born 1955), United States Virgin Islands Olympic sailor * David Kelly (association footballer) (born 1965), Irish association football player * David Kelly (baseball announcer) (born 1967), American minor league baseball announcer * David Kelly (Australian cricketer) (born 1959), Australian cricketer * David Kelly (New Zealand cricketer) (born 1979), New Zealand cricketer * David Kelly (Gaelic footballer) (born 1987), Gaelic footballer from Tubbercurry, County Sligo Others * David Kelly (diplomat) (1891–1959), British d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Orner
Eric Orner (born c. 1965, Chicago) is an openly gay American cartoonist and animator, whose works often revolve around LGBT issues. He is best known for long-running syndicated comic strip '' The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green''. Career Orner began creating ''The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green'' in 1989, when he was working as a political cartoonist for the ''Concord Monitor'' in New Hampshire. The strip debuted in 1990 in '' Bay Windows'', a Boston LGBT newspaper. It was unusual at the time as "one of the first comics to portray gay men everywhere from the bedroom to the family dining room" The strip was carried by nearly 100 LGBT newspapers and alternative weeklies. Orner retired the strip in 2005, when it was adapted into a feature film of the same title, which received a limited national cinematic release. In the 1990s, Orner also worked in the office of US Representative Barney Frank. In 2000 he moved to California, where he worked briefly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ignatz Award
The Ignatz Awards recognize outstanding achievements in comics and cartooning by small press creators or creator-owned projects published by larger publishers. They have been awarded each year at the Small Press Expo since 1997, only skipping a year in 2001 due to the show's cancellation after the September 11 attacks. SPX has been held in either Bethesda, North Bethesda, or Silver Spring, Maryland. The Ignatz Awards are named in honour of George Herriman and his strip ''Krazy Kat'', which featured a brick-throwing mouse named Ignatz. Awards criteria As one of the few festival awards rewarded in comics, the Ignatz Awards are voted on by attendees of the annual Small Press Expo (SPX, or The Expo, its corporate name), a weekend convention and tradeshow showcasing creator-owned comics. Nominations for the Ignatz Awards are made by a five-member jury panel consisting of comic book professionals. The jury panel remains anonymous (from both the public as well as each other) unti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Kirby (cartoonist)
Robert Kirby (; born 1962) is an American cartoonist, known for his long-running syndicated comic ''Curbside'' – which ran in the gay and alternative presses from 1991 to 2008 – and other works focusing on queer characters and community, including ''Strange Looking Exile'', ''Boy Trouble'', ''THREE'', and ''QU33R.'' He has worked alongside critically acclaimed queer artists including Diane DiMassa and Alison Bechdel. Background Robert Kirby was born in Detroit, Michigan in September 1962. He lived in Manhattan, New York City, New York for a while, during which he worked on ''Curbside Boys: The New York Years.'' He attended the University of Minnesota. Kirby began publishing comics with ''Strange Looking Exile,'' a zine published in the early 1990s, and grew popular through his long-running comic ''Curbside Boys.'' Kirby was married in October 2013, after same-sex marriage was legalized in Minnesota in May of that same year. He and his spouse John live in Saint Paul, Minnes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lambda Literary Award
Lambda Literary Awards, also known as the "Lammys", are awarded yearly by Lambda Literary to recognize the crucial role LGBTQ writers play in shaping the world. The Lammys celebrate the very best in LGBTQ literature.The awards were instituted in 1989. The program has grown from 14 awards in early years to 24 awards today. Early categories such as HIV/AIDS literature were dropped as the prominence of the AIDS crisis within the gay community waned, and categories for bisexual and transgender literature were added as the community became more inclusive. In addition to the primary literary awards, Lambda Literary also presents a number of special awards. Award categories Current Notes 1 In both the bisexual and transgender categories, presentation may vary according to the number of eligible titles submitted in any given year. If the number of titles warrants, then separate awards are presented in either two (Fiction and Nonfiction, with the Fiction category inclusive of poetr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LGBT
' is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. In use since the 1990s, the initialism, as well as some of its common variants, functions as an umbrella term for sexuality and gender identity. The LGBT term is an adaptation of the initialism ', which began to replace the term ''gay'' (or ''gay and lesbian'') in reference to the broader LGBT community beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s. When not inclusive of transgender people, the shorter term LGB is still used instead of LGBT. It may refer to anyone who is non-heterosexual or non-cisgender, instead of exclusively to people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. To recognize this inclusion, a popular variant, ', adds the letter ''Q'' for those who identify as queer or are questioning their sexual or gender identity. The initialisms ''LGBT'' or ''GLBT'' are not agreed to by everyone that they are supposed to include. History of the term The first widely used term, '' homosexual'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Hall (cartoonist)
Justin Robinson Hall (born February 14, 1971) is an American cartoonist and educator. He has written and illustrated autobiographical and erotic comics, and edited ''No Straight Lines'', a scholarly overview of LGBT comics of the previous 40 years. He is an Associate Professor of Comics and Writing-and-Literature at the California College of the Arts. Career Hall began creating comics in 2001. His first published work was ''A Sacred Text'', about seeing the Dead Sea Scrolls in Israel, published with funding from a Xeric Foundation, Xeric Grant. He followed this with ''True Travel Tales'', an anecdotal series about more of his international backpacking experiences. Next he and Dave Davenport (cartoonist), Dave Davenport produced ''Hard to Swallow'', a 4-issue series of gay erotica that was later collected into a single volume by Northwest Press in 2016. He served as the talent relations chair for the LGBT advocacy organization Prism Comics. He published ''Glamazonia'' about a c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
