Comic Book Librarian

I really had planned to only do the 4 earlier posts, but it's Pride Month and I still have other things I can recommend that don't really fall into any of the earlier categories. This post will be about books that have LGBTQ characters in the supporting cast. Basically the books I'm going to mention have LGBTQ characters who have a decent story (often with a coming out story), but don't drive the story over all. Sometimes that means they have one major scene and are just there supporting and being supported over the course of the series or sometimes their role is more prominent at times than others, but again their story doesn't dominate the series as it's not really about them. Make sense? I hope so. Now onto the recommendations: X-Force/X-Statix   by Peter Milligan and Mike Allred - Sadly the only way this is available at the moment is in an over-large Omnibus edition which many libraries would be reluctant to lend out due to cost and the fact that the...

Back again with the 4th round of recommendations.. So this list is books that have an ensemble of different LGBTQ characters. So with no further ado, here they are: Secret Six (first run)  by Gail Simone and various artists - This includes Villains United, Murder for Money, Cat's Cradle  and Caution to the Wild  for all 36 issues plus the mini that started it all and yes.. you want them all. Contains: bisexual man , bisexual woman,  lesbians,  and  genderqueer  characters So to start off this rag tag band of misfits were a group of villains that refused to join all of the other villains in the world as they teamed up and the Secret Society of Villains didn't take to highly to them doing that, so they tried to have them killed. The Secret Six of course resisted, fought back, and won despite their power sets. It's a really fun romp all around and it has some nice emotional moments and backstabbing fun. In case you're wondering, Catman (Thomas Bl...

I feel like I'm running behind on a lot of stuff right now, so there will probably be a few posts this week to make up for it. Sorry about that,. So June is typically considered Pride Month in the US, though local areas may have their own pride at different times. I'm going to start doing a series of posts on LGBTQIA comics that I recommend, but I'm going to do this a little differently. My idea is to break it down into parts, the first focusing on gay and bi men, then lesbians and bi women, then trans*, queer, intersex and asexual, then  finally circle back and focus on books that do a bit of all of them well (namely team books). I want to do it this way for a couple of reasons. First, while LGBTQIA is a community for various reasons, each individual group has it's own wants/needs/desires, so a book with a lesbian lead may not speak to an asexual teen as well as another book. The second reasons is to highlight some of the areas where comics as a medium are lacking ov...