Ok, how about this for an idea. We take it in turns to post a favourite (British spelling) comic cover every day. This went really well on the comic fan website that I used to frequent. What we tried to do was find a theme or subject and follow that, until we all got bored with that theme. I'd like to propose a theme of letters of the alphabet. So, for the remainder of October (only 5 days) and all of November, we post comic cover pictures associated with the letter "A". Then in December, we post covers pertaining to the letter "B". The association to the letter can be as tenuous as you want it to be. For example I could post a cover from "Adventure Comics" or "Amazing Spider Man". However Spider Man covers can also be posted when we're on the letter "S". Adventure Comic covers could also be posted when we're on the letter "L" if they depict the Legion of Super Heroes. So, no real hard, fast rules - in fact the cleverer the interpretation of the letter, the better, as far as I'm concerned.
And it's not written in stone that we have to post a cover every day. There may be some days when no cover gets posted. There's nothing wrong with this, it just demonstrates that we all have lives to lead.
If everyone's in agreement I'd like to kick this off with one of my favourite Action Comic covers, from January 1967. Curt Swan really excelled himself here.
Discussion and voting on future monthly themes takes place on the "Nominations, Themes and Statistics for A Cover A Day" thread. Click here to view the thread.
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Mini monochrome Dr. Spectros with rainbow leggings
Ah, dear old Hothead, I haven't thought her in years!
The old Tijuana Bibles sometimes had queer content, but it tended to be demeaning. As Art Spiegelman wrote: "I think it important to note that they [The Tijuana Bibles] demean everyone, regardless of gender, ethnic origin, or even species." There were occasional adult strips with queer characters, and the inevitable "coded" or "read as" queer characters in mainstream comics. However, the first comic books in the west with gay characters appear to be:
The gay pirates in this issue (1968) were hardly a positive step forward from the old Tijuana Bibles. Wimmen's Comix #1 (1972-later Wimmin's Comix) had a coming out story with an ostensibly positive portrayal of a lesbian character:
Hawkman #18 with Adam Strange and the bizarre Manhawks!
Fantastic Four #18
Mary Wings felt that Wimmen's Comix #1's take on coming out in the early 70s simplified things too much, so she published this single issue of Come Out Comix (1979):
A variant on my cover from yesterday.
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