Pimps and Boyfriends on Strips. How to Devote Oneself to the (Gay) Comic without Dying in the Attempt Authors Sebas Martín (autor de cómics) Keywords: Comic, gay subject-matter, publishing world, prejudices Abstract To make a living from the comic is itself something impossible, but difficulties increase if the goal of an author is to devote himself to the gay comic. This autobiographical article narrates the obstacles and the successes which have influenced the professional trajectory of its author, since his beginnings in the 80s as the creator of a fanzine, to the proliferation of projects that have marked the 2000s. With all, it draws a review through the cultural and ideological panorama of the Spain of the last decades, bringing to us the slow but constant overcoming of the prejudices that still today surround both the genre of the comic and the gay world. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2010-10-14 Issue No. 15 (2009): Mujeres y naciones Section Miscellaneous License The Author retains ownership of the copyright in this article, unless the opposite is expressed, and all rights not expressly granted in this agreement, including the nonexclusive right to reproduce, distribute, perform, and display the article in print or electronic form, and grants, Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat the exclusive rights to print publication of the Article for a period beginning when this Agreement is executed and ending twelve (12) months after the first publicaton of the work in this Journal. After this time, the work will be available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license, by which the article must be credited to the Author and the Journal be credited as first place of publication. Beginning twelve (12) months after the article´s first publication, the Author is free to enter in seperate, additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the work as published in this journal. The Author is encouraged to post the work online (eg in institutional or subject repositories, or on their website) after the exclusivity period of twelve (12) months has expired, as it can lead to productive exchanges as well as a greater citation of the published work (see The Effect of Open Access).
