Vertigo comics series#
Rick Veitch self-published a limited series called Brat Pack, a really dark satire of mainstream comic books, sort of akin to Watchmen in some ways but like….worse.
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In particular, a priest (who he promptly also murdered.) Millar would go on to be a really significant comic book creator for both DC and Marvel, and some of his works for other companies are now successful movie franchises, like Kingsman and Kick-Ass. Mark Millar, in his first published work, wrote a series called Saviour for Trident Comics - the lead character was the antichrist and he was not above raping men. Still, there was worse happening that year. It was making a really valid point, but still didn’t exactly paint gay people in the best possible light. In Dark Horse Presents #40, they began a story set in a dystopian future where homosexuality had taken over and heterosexuality was criminalized. Around this time Dark Horse Comics was making waves, having steadily grown for years. Marvel wasn’t the only kind of missing the mark when it came to positive LGBTQ+ representation that year.
Scott Austen, Marceo Miranda and Juan-Carlos Castano which hangs in the NAMES Project Foundation’s offices (rather than being sewn into the actual quilt itself.) As far as I know, he is the only fictional character to have a panel in their honor. In Doonesbury, Andy Lippincott has a panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt. Garry Trudeau received a Pulitzer Prize nomination for the story arc (well deserved, in my opinion). Give yourself a little time in between the strips, okay? But its understandable that people had an emotional reaction, and some people were galvanized to take action. I read it all at once, which….I don’t recommend. I gotta tell you, I read his whole arc in researching this article and I cried. And then, finally, on May 24th, 1990, Andy Lippincott became the first comic character to die of AIDS complications. Only three of them refused to publish this story arc, saying it was “in bad taste.” But for readers of those other 897 newspapers, all over the country, it brought the very real tragedy that so much of the LGBTQ+ community was dealing with into their homes every day. 900 newspapers carried Doonesbury at the time. Over the next year, the comic would revisit Andy - touching on the stigma of the disease, the stigma of homosexuality, the medical community’s confusion over the disease’s unpredictability, the difficulty of getting into experimental treatments, and many other topics and issues facing AIDS patients. The story arc began with Andy’s friend, and one of the main characters of the strip, Joanie Caucus learning that Andy was in the hospital with AIDS. While the character had appeared off and on since his introduction in 1976, this time he became a staple of the strip - appearing pretty frequently over the course of the next year. Andy Lippincott returned to Doonesbury in 1989.
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