Queer Comics - A Critical Guide

An international and intersectional overview of queer comics, this book offers an introductory guide to the history, development, impact, and key texts from the genre and methods surrounding queer content and creators.

About the author

Tof Eklund is a Lecturer in Language and Culture at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. An aneurotypical nonbinary parent, and an occasional game designer and zine comics creator, their research interests lie at the intersection of the theoretical, the subcultural, the digital, the creative, and the queer, and their passion is for how people find and create meaning, for good and ill.

Sam Orchard is Assistant Curator of the New Zealand Cartoons and Comics Archive at the National Library of New Zealand, and a working comic artist. He has developed comic resources and contributed to publications and journals across the globe. Sam is particularly interested in inclusive and intersectional ways of working that acknowledge the importance of accessibility, decolonisation and feminism.

Product details

• Authors: Tof Eklund, Sam Orchard, Sam Orchard, Tof Eklund
• Assisted by: Chris Gavaler (Editor), Chris Gavaler (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 01.10.2026
• EAN: 9781350477087
• ISBN: 978-1-350-47708-7
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Bloomsbury Comics Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Graphic Novels, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comics & Graphic Novels, Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest, Graphic novels: history & criticism, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: styles / traditions, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / LGBTQ+ / General, Relating to LGBTQIA+ people