Naughty Bits #40: 'Matrimony, Teddy Bear Style'

In this short story, former Gay Comix editor Robert Triptow offers a very funny satire of gay marriage, through a couple of two bears who decide to make a trip to San Francisco during the recent gay wedding days.
Triptow, who married his partner at that time, shows his penchant for bad taste humor by having a queeny fanboy and a confused militant-sounding business attorney decide to marry... but then, they clearly love each other. Triptow doesn't look down on his characters, he makes us laugh with them, and not against them.
The solid and slightly over-the-top art enhances the feeling of a skewed reality not far from our own, but far funnier. It's definitely refreshing to see such a loaded question as same-sex marriage treated that way.

True Travel Tales #2: 'A Final Goodbye'

Here is a second issue of Justin Hall's true-to-life collection of travel stories. Among those stories, a very moving tale of a man meeting a friend of his in a strange place... but this friend is dead, and the man is dreaming.
Blending that dream with his memories of the last times he met his friend and his friend's boyfriend, Justin Hall -since it is him who's dreaming- manages to convey the emotions which engulf him, among other things by finding ways to link panels of the dream with the depiction of his actual memories.
Dreaming of a dead person one cared for is not unusual, but by making it so personal, Justin Hall definitely affects each and everyone of us.

True Travel Tales #1: 'Oh, Mighty Isis!'

After the very unique A Sacred Text, Justin Hall is back with a collection of true stories told to him about travels all over the world.
One of these shows two guys visiting an temple of Isis in Egypt. Which better place for a sexual encounter than the ruins of a sand-covered fertility altar? Justin Hall's art is getting more assured with each story he draws, and the irony of writing about gay sex in a country now known for imprisoning its Gays was probably not lost on the author.

Mind Riot: 'Out at the movies'

An anthology about the pleasures and pains of adolescence, Mind Riot offered Maurice Vellekoop, the author of Vellevision, an opportunity to give us another of his short sweet tales of gay boys.
'Out at the Movies' is the story of a teenaged old movies lover, eager to burst out of the closet he still inhabits. With his usual, simple but effective classic art style, Vellekoop shows a young man beginning to take control of his life.

Within Our Reach: 'Home for Christmas'

Within Our Reach was a Christmas-themed anthology produced to benefit organisations fighting for the environment and against aids. 'Home for Christmas' was written by Shair, a woman writer I know nothing about, and drawn by Eric Shanower, who's now working on his excellent Age of Bronze series.
It tells the story of two gay men, one living with aids, who take in their home a straight man dying from aids, alone for Christmas. Shanower's art, solid and calm, grounds in reality this moving tale which, managing to avoid being maudlin, shows humane solidarity at its best.

Last Day in Vietnam: 'A Purple Heart for George'

A 10-page story, Dark Horse Comics, 2000.
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Category: historical, slice-of-life.

Author(s): Will Eisner.

Website: http://willeisner.com.

Heartthrobs #1: 'Genes and a T-shirt'

Flinch #7: 'Parade'

Promethea #7