We saved the best for last as we close this year’s Pride edition of Nerdcore with a bang.
Muchacho is such a gorgeously written and drawn comic that I can’t believe it exists. For a queer-themed comic, it’s up there with American Gods, A Man’s Skin, and The White Trees.
The blurb:
In 1976 Nicaragua “Tacit” Somoza rules the small Central American country with the support of the ruthless Guardia. The son of a powerful family from the capital, Managua, Gabriel is a young priest with an incredible talent for sacred art. He is sent to enhance his painting skills with Ruben, a priest in San Juan–a little village located at the base of a mountain. Despite his difficulty integrating with the villagers due to his father’s reputation, Gabriel slowly gets to know them and, eventually, to love them. Encouraged by Ruben, he paints the villagers. He paints them as they are–men and women of flesh and blood. But Gabriel is soon witness to acts of military repression of the locals. It doesn’t take long for him and the villagers to get swept away in these times of growing rebellion and smoldering revolution. Artistic passion, romantic passion, revolutionary passion. Passion courses though the pages of Muchacho, a two-part series.
Original title: Muchacho
Writer, artist: Emmanuel Lepage
Translator for Europe Comics: Montana Kane
Layouter: Philippe Ghielmetti (illusions)
Lettering and text layout: Calix Ltd
Publisher: Dupuis (French/2004 & 2006), Europe Comics (English/2015 & 206)
WARNING: Violence.
Dollsexposed showcases queer erotica, kink, fetish, and activism through twelve-inch doll photography. Their adventures in the doll world began in 2011 before establishing a home on dollsexposed.com eleven years later.
Dollsexposed's works have been displayed at Seattle Erotic Art Festival and Los Angeles Leather Getaway.