Ed Luce is an American cartoonist, best known for his indie comics series ''

Wuvable Oaf ''Wuvable Oaf'' is an indie comic book series by American artist and writer Ed Luce, under his Goteblüd Comics imprint. The central story follows the title character, Oaf Jadwiga, as he searches for love in a city that is never explicitly named, ...

''. The series focuses on Oaf Jadwiga, a bearish gay ex-wrestler looking for love. Originally funded by a grant from Prism Comics, it was self-published in five standalone chapters"Fantagraphics to publish Ed Luce’s ‘Wuvable Oaf': An interview with the author"
. '' Comic Book Resources'', May 10, 2014. until being compiled in graphic novel form by

Fantagraphics Books Fantagraphics (previously Fantagraphics Books) is an American publisher of alternative comics, classic comic strip anthologies, manga, magazines, graphic novels, and the erotic Eros Comix imprint. History Founding Fantagraphics was found ...

in 2015. He is a two-time Ignatz Award nominee for the series, garnering nominations in 2009 for Promising New Talent and in 2015 for Outstanding Artist, and was a 2016 Lambda Literary Award nominee for LGBT Graphic Nove,l A second volume, ''Wuvable Oaf: Blood and Metal'', was published in 2016, and won the Award for LGBT Graphic Novel at the

29th Lambda Literary Awards The 29th Lambda Literary Awards were held on June 12, 2017, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2016.San Francisco, where he teaches at California College of the Arts."Drawing Distinctions"
'' Portland Mercury'', April 9, 2014.

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