Chelsea boys: Sexual Paradigms of a Queer Comic Authors Rafael M. Mérida Jiménez Universitat de Lleida Keywords: American comic, Chelsey Boys, Glen Hanson, Allan Neuwirth, cultural studies, queer theory Abstract Chelsea Boys (2003) and Chelsea Boys: Steppin’ Out! (2006) are two albums by Glen Hanson and Allan Neuwirth which gather together the strips that began to be published in Anglo-Saxon journals from 1998, and that have achieved an enormous success among GLTBQ communities. This article analyzes the social and cultural dimensions of the New York neighborhood where the plot is developed, and values those aspects that best define the creativity of their authors with the aim of evaluating their ideological sympathies, which would show a clear willingness to the renewal of the American gay comic throughout the last decade. 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).
