Colorfully Queer: LGBTQ+ Graphic Novels

By Kat La Mantia | March 25 2022 | Graphic Novels

From memoir to dystopian sci-fi to horror and more, check out some of our recent exciting adult LGBTQ+ graphic novels!

Axelle Lenoir reimagines a lost girlhood in Secret Passages; four queer female friends fight for their chance at victory in a VR gaming tournament in Renegade Rule; and Be Gay, Do Comics collects a rich mix of comics from LGBTQ+ creators in an anthology exploring the queerness of comics and the power of creating new worlds.

Secret Passages
978-1-60309-499-3
Welcome to an autobiography from another dimension. A wildly inventive cartoonist begins her imaginary memoir -- exploring the girlhood she never had.
$19.99 US
Mar 22, 2022
Paperback
184 Pages
Top Shelf Productions

Crema
978-1-5067-2603-8
#1 New York Times Bestselling cartoonist Johnnie Christmas and Prism Award Nominee Dante Luiz bring you a haunted tale of love, ghosts, and coffee beans.
$19.99 US
Feb 01, 2022
Paperback
120 Pages
Dark Horse Books

Our Colors
978-1-5247-4856-2
A mesmerizing coming-of-age and coming-out graphic novel by the genius writer-artist of the Eisner Award–winning breakout hit My Brother’s Husband
$32.50 US
Jun 21, 2022
FOC Apr 25, 2022
Hardcover
528 Pages
Pantheon

The Pride Omnibus
978-1-5067-2447-8
Joe Glass's The Pride in a full omnibus trade paperback, collecting volumes 1 and 2 as well as the collection of self-contained stories, The Pride Adventures!
$29.99 US
Jun 01, 2021
Paperback
448 Pages
Dark Horse Books
Age 14 and up

Enigma: The Definitive Edition
978-1-5067-2069-2
Enigma is a visceral, post-modern tale of self-discovery and sexual identity told against the backdrop of outrageous superheroes and villains.
$24.99 US
Nov 16, 2021
Hardcover
264 Pages
Berger Books

Youth
978-1-5067-2461-4
"Bold, genre-defying and heartfelt, Youth hits a reader like the meteor in its own pages; an angry, wondrous and transformative book" -- Scott Snyder (Battman, Justice League)Named one of "10 Comic Books to Celebrate Pride," by The New York Times, June 2020Youth is Larry Clark's Kids meets Chronicle. X-Men by way of Frank Ocean. It smashes together the violence of coming of age with the violence of the superhero narrative--as well as the beauty.
$19.99 US
Apr 06, 2021
Paperback
136 Pages
Dark Horse Books

Renegade Rule
978-1-5067-1801-9
Prepare for competitive gaming like you've never seen it!
$19.99 US
Jun 15, 2021
Paperback
112 Pages
Dark Horse Books
Age 12 and up

Be Gay, Do Comics
978-1-68405-777-1
The dream of a queer separatist town. The life of a gay and Jewish Nazi-fighter. A gender reveal party that tears apart reality. These are the just some of the comics you'll find in this massive queer comics anthology from The Nib.
$24.99 US
Sep 01, 2020
Paperback
256 Pages
IDW Publishing

Cosmoknights (Book One)
978-1-60309-454-2
For this ragtag band of space gays, liberation means beating the patriarchy at its own game.
$19.99 US
Oct 22, 2019
Paperback
216 Pages
Top Shelf Productions

October Faction: Open Season
978-1-68405-527-2
Now a Netflix Original Series! Meet the Allan family in this tale about the typical challenges that a very atypical family encounters while fending off the attacks of vampires, werewolves, demons, and more.
$29.99 US
Sep 10, 2019
Paperback
288 Pages
IDW Publishing

Barbalien: Red Planet--From the World of Black Hammer
978-1-5067-1580-3
A groundbreaking new sci-fi action series in the world of the Eisner Award-winning Black Hammer universe, about prejudice, honor, and identity.
$19.99 US
May 11, 2021
Paperback
136 Pages
Dark Horse Books