''Sticky'' is a book of

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written by

Dale Lazarov Dale Lazarov (born in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico) is an openly gay American comics writer and poet. He is known for writing wordless homoerotic short stories and graphic novels. His work has been included in "best of" anthologies featuring erotic comic ...

and drawn by Steve MacIsaac.

Publication history

It was originally serialized in three issues by

Eros Comics 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 founde ...

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. The series was collected, with remastered color, better paper and production values, and a new framing sequence, as a hardcover published by Bruno Gmünder Verlag.

Format

The book uses wordless sequential art to tell four stories about masculine gay men who find unexpected congeniality as well as sexual passion with each other. These stories are interleaved with a framing narrative of a gay couple whose intimacy is enhanced by the stories they read in their copy of the book. The illustration consists of line art with a limited monochromatic palette for each story. The framing sequences use full color. The hardcover collection of ''Sticky'' is 80 pages long, and was published by Bruno Gmünder Verlag (Berlin, Germany) in March 2006.

Reception

In ''TimeOut Chicago'', Jason Heidemann wrote, "Carnality and sweetness is the exactly the right combination that makes ''Sticky'' a real standout in the genre. Readers will find the material is both erotically charged and unabashedly romantic."

External links

* Review in

Rain Taxi ''Rain Taxi'' is a Minneapolis-based book review and literary organization. In addition to publishing its quarterly print edition, ''Rain Taxi'' maintains an online edition with distinct content, sponsors the Twin Cities Book Festival, hosts read ...

: * Interview with Dale Lazarov and Steve MacIsaac: * Interview with Dale Lazarov and Steve MacIsaac: * Review in

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