Comics Beat’s Pride 2025 Reading List
To celebrate Pride 2025, The Beat staff is sharing a non-exhaustive list of queer comics to read, enjoy and share.
Pride 2025: NO STRAIGHT LINES is streaming on PBS to celebrate Pride Month
In celebration of Pride Month, PBS is proudly streaming No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics on the PBS Video app. The 2001 documentary...
Manga Review: THE LITTLE BIRD SLEEPS BY THE SEA is a bittersweet story of...
The Little Bird Sleeps by the Sea
Story and Art: Yuu Minaduki
Publisher: TOKYOPOP (Print & Digital)
Imprint: LoveLove
Translation: Christine Dashiell
Retouching and Lettering: Vibrant Publishing Studio
Publication Date:...
Glass and Miner are back with YOUNG MEN IN LOVE: NEW ROMANCE
Fans are getting a follow-up to the GLAAD Media Award-winning LGBT+ anthology Young Men in Love: New Romance, published by A Wave Blue World,...
Manga Review: PALACE OF THE OMEGA Volume Two sweetly satisfies
Palace of the Omega Volume Two
Story and Art: Fumi Tsuyuhisa
Publisher: Viz Media
Imprint: SuBLime (Print & Digital)
Translation: Adrienne Beck
Retouching and Lettering: Gwen Butler
Publication Date: May...
FATED NOT TO MEET is a spicy rivals-to-lovers BL
Fated NOT to Meet
Story and Art: Ei Eijou
Publisher: TOKYOPOP (Digital & Paperback)
Translation: Dylan Jekels
Retouching and Lettering: Vibrant Publishing Studio
Publication Date: April 22, 2025
Rating: Mature,...
11 comics to read during Lesbian Visibility Week
It’s Lesbian Visibility Week! As a very visible lesbian, I wanted to give some recommendations (thanks, Beat staff!) for sapphic books to check out this week.
Trans women are women: Pedro Pascal wears ‘PROTECT THE DOLLS’ tee at UK premiere,...
At the London premiere of Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts on April 22, 2025, Pedro Pascal, 50, made waves by raising awareness for the protection of...
Q CON 2025: Prism Comics’ queer comic convention returns for its 4th year
Prism Comics LGBTQIA+ comic book convention, Q Con, is returning for its fourth year. Check out everything it has to offer!
Interview: Wheeler and Hickman on the ‘victory’ of Hey, MARY! and Oni’s ‘fearless support’
Comics Beat spoke with Andrew Wheeler and Rye Hickman about the "victory" of Hey, Mary! being told as a comic and Oni's "fearless support."
Manga Review: MELTING STRAWBERRY KISS is a fluffy confection
Melting Strawberry Kiss Volume 1
Story and Art: Rico Sakura
Publisher: Animate International (Digital)
Translation: Nomnom Namako
Typesetting: Sara Sato
Publication Date: March 11, 2025
Rating: Mature, 18+
Genre: Manga, Boys...
Interview: Mattie Lubchansky talks SIMPLICITY and making trans culture, for trans people
Penguin Random House imprint Pantheon has announced the next graphic novel from Ignatz winner and Herblock Prize finalist Mattie Lubchansky. Simplicity: A Novel arrives...
