I created a series of public posters called Marching Toward Pride illustrating San Francisco LGBTQ history from 1955-1970 for the SF Arts Commission. They were installed in the bus stops along Market Street in 2020-2021 to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Pride.
I created this Fantagraphics book in 2012 as a survey of LGBTQ comics from the 1960s - 2000s. It received a Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBT Anthology and an Eisner Award nomination for Best Anthology. The collection came out of the No Straight Lines: The World of Queer Comics show I curated for the SF Cartoon Art Museum in 2006, and in turn inspired the documentary film No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics I produced in 2021. Cover art by Maurice Vellekoop.
Theater of Terror: Revenge of the Queers is an anthology of queer horror comics I conceived of and then co-edited with William O. Tyler and published with Northwest Press, with SF drag impresario Peaches Christ hosting the collection of stories in a haunted Castro Theater, Samuel Delany writing the intro, and Phil Jimenez providing the cover art. I wrote four of the stories in the book and illustrated one of those. It was a wonderful collaborative experience and I’m very proud of the book!
Dave Davenport and I collected the entire Hard to Swallow series, added over 60 pages of new material, and published it with Northwest Press. It was gratifying to collect the whole run into a deluxe volume; I’m very proud of the work we created here and where we were able to push erotic comics storytelling. We also had an excellent line-up of guest creators: Julian Cardozo, Drub, Victor Hodge, Steve MacIsaac, Jon Macy, BiL Sherman, and William O. Tyler. The cover art here is a collaborative piece by Dave and me.
I created the series True Travel Tales off-and-on from 2001-2010 based on my years on the road visiting over 70 countries. There were four self-published comics (issue #3, La Rubia Loca, was printed in its 48-page entirety in the Houghton Miflin Best American Comics 2006) as well as a slew of mini-comics and short stories that popped up in various anthologies. This is the work I cut my teeth on as a cartoonist, and it represents both some of my awkward learning curves and some of my favorite experimentations. This illustration was created as the cover for a collected edition that still hasn’t happened, but I hope will in the future.
I created the gay erotic comics series Hard to Swallow with Dave Davenport, which was first self-published from 2006-2009 and eventually collected by Northwest Press in 2016 here. We started with a simple premise: that erotica should be good storytelling that is challenging, inspiring, delightful, and strange as well as sexy. Creating erotica also helped me to expand my visual storytelling skills and made me think about the language of comics differently, something I’ve carried over into all of my projects since. We brought on other gay erotic cartoonists to do guest short pieces over the course of the four-year run as well.
I created this cover for the 2010 edition of the Best Erotic Comics series published by Last Gasp Comix. Unfortunately, the series was cancelled right before this edition was published, though I do have stories in the previous 2008 and 2009 volumes.