Poly Comic Strips
The same way the web lets anyone's brother-in-law's dog publish his writings, anyone can publish a comic strip. Web comics number more than 7,000, ranging from pathetic to brilliant. (Here are 100 of the most popular.)
I've run across a few poly strips:
Strange Den, which is semi-autobiographical. The characters in the author's house are real despite how they're drawn. Here's what the author thinks of her family.
Blue Crash Kit. The furry superheroes were loosely based on the cartoonist's triad. Motto: "Justice Is... Cute?"
Spice, an archived oldie telling the story of how the author's quad got together.
Queen of Wands, another archival strip, is at least poly-friendly. Claims to be 70% nonfiction. This page is a wonderful, fast explanation of poly suitable for printing out in large format (take the file to Kinko's) and taping to your door.
The hauntingly winsome Bruno has long had polyamory drift in and out of her dreamy, ineffectual life.
The long-running, ever-popular Dykes to Watch Out For featured this sly episode a while back. (With thanx to diligent researcher Guy With Hounds.)
Those were all I found. Can you add more? Post in the Comments section below.
P.S.: Then I open my morning newspaper a couple days ago to see a Harry Bliss cartoon (not available on the web) showing one lightbulb saying to another as they look at a third: "A three-way bulb! That's hot!"
P.P.S.: Questionable Content offers this explosive-laden scene. And this update of old-timey doctoring....
Here's a lolcats that's been going around.
And here is a major historical golden oldie! A genuine paper copy of Far Out West comics starring Polly Morfus — by "Even Eve" Furchgott of the seminal Kerista commune in Haight-Ashbury, the group that invented the terms polyfidelity and compersion. This was drawn in the 1970s, when computers were supposed to look like that thing on the cover.
Update May 30, 2008: The long-running "Fans" has returned with a storyline exploring a new-forming triad, complete with Heinlein reference. It helps to know the characters and their backstories (bad goth bondage girl with heart of gold, maybe; sweet little anime artist, a runaway from Japan; all-American Christian college kid, thinks he's Archie). And the frames can cut from one storyline to another. But never mind, pick it up from here. Keep clicking the forward arrow.
The artist clearly knows what he's doing. As the story develops he's touching one important base after another.
Update July 2008: In The New PolyAnna, cartoonist Anna Hirsch chronicles her life of multiples.
Update April 2009: "Oopsie" from the Polyamorous Percolations forums is starting up a comic named <3.
Update July 2009:And another, from "Pictures for Sad Children".
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I've run across a few poly strips:
Strange Den, which is semi-autobiographical. The characters in the author's house are real despite how they're drawn. Here's what the author thinks of her family.
Blue Crash Kit. The furry superheroes were loosely based on the cartoonist's triad. Motto: "Justice Is... Cute?"
Spice, an archived oldie telling the story of how the author's quad got together.
Queen of Wands, another archival strip, is at least poly-friendly. Claims to be 70% nonfiction. This page is a wonderful, fast explanation of poly suitable for printing out in large format (take the file to Kinko's) and taping to your door.
The hauntingly winsome Bruno has long had polyamory drift in and out of her dreamy, ineffectual life.
The long-running, ever-popular Dykes to Watch Out For featured this sly episode a while back. (With thanx to diligent researcher Guy With Hounds.)
Those were all I found. Can you add more? Post in the Comments section below.
P.S.: Then I open my morning newspaper a couple days ago to see a Harry Bliss cartoon (not available on the web) showing one lightbulb saying to another as they look at a third: "A three-way bulb! That's hot!"
P.P.S.: Questionable Content offers this explosive-laden scene. And this update of old-timey doctoring....
Here's a lolcats that's been going around.
And here is a major historical golden oldie! A genuine paper copy of Far Out West comics starring Polly Morfus — by "Even Eve" Furchgott of the seminal Kerista commune in Haight-Ashbury, the group that invented the terms polyfidelity and compersion. This was drawn in the 1970s, when computers were supposed to look like that thing on the cover.
Update May 30, 2008: The long-running "Fans" has returned with a storyline exploring a new-forming triad, complete with Heinlein reference. It helps to know the characters and their backstories (bad goth bondage girl with heart of gold, maybe; sweet little anime artist, a runaway from Japan; all-American Christian college kid, thinks he's Archie). And the frames can cut from one storyline to another. But never mind, pick it up from here. Keep clicking the forward arrow.
The artist clearly knows what he's doing. As the story develops he's touching one important base after another.
Update July 2008: In The New PolyAnna, cartoonist Anna Hirsch chronicles her life of multiples.
Update April 2009: "Oopsie" from the Polyamorous Percolations forums is starting up a comic named <3.
Update July 2009:And another, from "Pictures for Sad Children".
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My comic Buddies in Big Places www.bibp.com has a poly trio, the characters Tawny, Ted and Celine. Heh heh...
http://www.thisismarcus.com/jake/
I think Strange Den might possibly become a favorite of mine, after Something Positive. I starting reading it and suddenly my sides were hurting.
This is from the Polyamory FAQ at stason.org:
22). Polyamory Comic Books/Graphic Novels
Love and Rockets comic books have a poly/bi accepting story line written by Jaime Hernandez.
Omaha the Cat Dancer and ElfQuest comic books also have main characters that are frequently or occasionally involved in polyamorous relationships.
There was a comic in the Kerista newsletters called "Far Out West." Some of these were collated into a comic called "Polly Morphus in FAR OUT WEST".
Whom Gods Destroy, a DC Elseworlds graphic novel which features an alternate earth where the Nazis are still in power, Superman never aged, and Lois Lane and Lana Lang got old. In the end, when the adventure is finished, the three profess to love one another and then live in polyamorous cohabitation.
Shade: The Changing Man has a plot thread involving the title character and two women (Kathy and Lenny).
Strange Den is awesome. It's so exciting to find this site and see so many people working creatively to represent polyamory through art and literacy.
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