Rick Worley is an American cartoonist, known primarily for his comic strip ''A Waste of Time''. He is openly gay and lives in

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Career

Worley began the strip ''A Waste of Time'' in 2008. A collection of the strips was published by

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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

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and Jim Davis. In February 2013, Worley co-curated with

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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'': ''Four Decades of Queer Comics'', published by

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in 2012; editor

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's hardcover anthology ''QU33R'' in 2014; and in ''What’s Your Sign, Girl?'' an astrological anthology edited by Kirby 2016.

References

Living people American cartoonists American gay artists LGBT comics creators Year of birth missing (living people) {{LGBT-bio-stub