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Follow on Google News | European Comics Journal #02 - LGBT characters in comic booksWe're back with the second issue of our new magazine, this time we'll focus on LGBT characters in European comic books!
By: Diego Comics Publishing In recent years, openly gay characters have made their appearance in a variety of comics, and they are no longer a taboo to be found only in underground and niche comics. Although Europe, compared to the United States, has been more open to the subject, most publishers had a conservative profile and avoided openly gay characters in their titles. There have been a few exceptions, mostly in France where the American cartoonists Drake and Starr choose to publish so that they can avoid the reach of USA censorship. In Italy, Luca Enoch used gay characters in his comics and was often open about the sexuality of his female protagonists whilst we also have German Ralf Koning, and 2000AD in Great Britain published Devlin Waugh by Sean Smith and Sean Phillips. And that is only a few of those we will cover. "I believe as a publisher" said Giuseppe Pennestri, "that comics should open the minds of their readers, helping to show the world and society as it is, with diversity in all of its glory. There are authors that do it with humour, others who do it with drama - you cannot stop someone’s creativity from following its own path and that is exactly why we need to bring light to freedom of expression in comics." WE NEED YOUR HELP TO PRODUCE THIS AWESOME SECOND ISSUE OF EUROPEAN COMICS JOURNAL! FOLLOW THE LINK BELOW TO KICKSTARTER. https://www.kickstarter.com/ Why Kickstarter? Diego Comics Publishing is a family run business with limited resources, our titles aren't distributed in book retailers, we sell at conventions and through our website (http://www.diegopublishing.co.uk/ Crowdfunding helps us to cover part of the production and printing costs for European Comics Journal #02, so that we can distribute for free at Conventions across UK and Europe until we have built a readership base that will allow us to regularly printing the magazine and offer subscriptions to a Continental public. Currently our tight budget does not allow us to hire full-time staff, therefore we rely on what our contributors can do in their free time. End
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