Thursday, January 15, 2015

How Loathsome


The cover of How Loathsome

For the inaugural entry of the Queer Comics Blog, I have chosen the relatively obscure How Loathsome, created by Tristan Crane and Ted Naifeh.  Originally published monthly as four separate issues by NBM/Comics Lit Publishing in 2003, it was collected as a graphic novel in 2004.  The story concerns a group of friends in San Francisco as they hook up, take drugs, party and shock and offend each other and mainstream sensibilities. The main character is Catherine Gore, an androgynous female lesbian artist who narrates most of the chapters.