Yuri Manga
YNN Correspondent Chris D. has a heads up about a new Yuri series running in Dengeki Daioh, “Yagate Kimi ni Naru.” A girl asks her friend for advice about love only to have her friend to confess to her.
YNN Correspondent James W. is excited to tell you that Fujima Shion’s text and manga account of a her and her partner becoming parents in her Yurinin – Lesbian Couple Pregnancy Diary (ゆりにん レズビアンカップル妊活奮闘記) is now available as a collected volume!
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LGBTQ Manga/Comics
YNN correspondent Emily C. also has exciting news – Nishi UKO-sensei’s Manga Tonari no Robot, has received the “Sense of Gender” award from the Japanese Association of Gender Fantasy & Science Fiction. You can read her acceptance letter on the JAGF&S website. Congratulations!
Prism Comics announces new queer comics anthology. ALPHABET – The LGBTQAI comics creators from Prism Comics to benefit the Queer Press Grant. And they have opened submissions to their Queer Comics Showcase.
Other News
The hottest new comic in the USA celebrates the real heroes we all know – mothers. Raising Dion is about a mother with a super-powered son and the challenges that come along with trying to steer him on a path of kindness. Watch the awesome trailer and read the first issue for free, but if you can, please support this project with money, too.
Heidi MacDonald report that French women cartoonists launch a website “against comics sexism” on The Comics Beat.
And we’re going to wrap this up with The Economist’s excellent review of LGBTQ Pioneer Lillian Faderman’s new book, The Gay Revolution, a comprehensive history of America’s Gay Rights movment.
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