Maria-sama ga Miteru 2 – Kibara Kakumei /マリア様がみてる ―黄薔薇革命

Itazura Choucho 2 / 悪戯ちょうちょ 2

Sakura and Nanoha, two students at a highly competitive performing arts school. Bucking the weight of tradition and propriety, they have been accepted into the end-of-year competition, despite the fact that they are merely first-years. They both are assigned new coaches and find that stress may pull them apart.

Yurimekuru Hibi / ゆりめくる日々

Saiyuri and Yoriko-sempai are in deep like, with very typical skinship (holding hands, sharing food, etc.). They go to school together, hang out after school together, go to the beach and flower-watching. Yoriko is a little goofy, but Saiyuri likes her a lot.

Suzuran Teichou / スズラン手帖

A collection of stories by Takahashi Mako, which  contains a wide variety of personalities, ages and situations including a story about an older couple.

Maria-sama ga Miteru 1 / マリア様がみてる 1

As the school festival approaches Fukuzawa Yumi is drawn into the affairs of the Lillian Academy Student Council, after the imperious Ogasawara Sachiko reties her tie one fateful morning.

The series that defined a decade begins here – meet Rosa Chinensis, Rosa Foetida and Rosa Gigantea, their “little sisters” and the whole Lillian gang once again.

GIRLS UPRISING カズアキ×深見真百合姫表紙画集

Illustrated by Comic Yuri Hime cover artist Kazuaki and written by novelist Fukami Makoto, Girls Uprising is an illustrated novel set in a fantasy world where high school girls practice sniper skills and an evil scientist experiments on a young girl locked in a tower accompanied only by a self-willed android.

“I will escape from this tower and find my sister.”

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戦争後、水没しかけたこの世界では、ガールズトークしながら、弾倉をセットするjkの姿が当たり前の風景だ。どんな弾丸でも当たる気がしなかったのに、あたしはターゲットの戦部千里に逆に心臓を撃ち抜かれてしまった。それ以来、あたしのハートはズキズキ疼く。アイツから、目が離せないのが悔しくて…。百合姫再誕初のカバーストーリーがイラスト&ノベル完全収録、さらに書き下ろしノベル追加でついに書籍化。

QU33R

Where No Straight Lines, Hall’s historical retrospective of western LGBTQ comix and comics, told us where we came from and  how we got here, Rob Kirby’s new anthology, QU33R: New Comics from 33 Creators, tells us where “here” is.

 

Dolltopia

Abby Denson’s Dolltopia is a light allegory about the plastic dolls we grew up with and what happens when they question their life of plastic conformity and consumerism.

No Straight Lines: Four Decades Of Queer Comics

Comix are the doujinshi of the western comics scene.  Small press or self-published, comix are typically tales told of underground or fringe “lifestyles.” Very often intensely personal, they are a window into a life that may be yours. No Straight Lines looks back at the early history of “gay comix” and the people who  told our stories.

This anthology is a must-read for people interested in the history of western LGBTQ comics.