Our main protagonist, Mia, is part of a crew that rebuilds beautiful and broken-down structures throughout space, piecing the past together.Īs Mia gets to know her team, who are each well fleshed out with their own stories that become relevant later, we flashback to Mia’s time in a boarding school where she fell in love with a mysterious new student.
The use of red and blue throughout On a Sunbeam is a feast for the eyes and forces you to linger and reread for full impact. There’s so much going on in this story which balances Star Wars, space adventure romp with multiple timelines, romance, and newfound family.Įvery page is more breathtaking in the last, notably the full-art pages which are fully deserving of being framed. Tillie Walden is legendary on the queer graphic novel scene by this point but if you have managed to miss this stunning work then here’s your friendly push to pick it up next. Read More: LGBTQ Books from Around the World Queer Graphic Novelsįrom queer memoirs to gay romances to action series’ with queer protagonists, here is a deep and varied list of some of the best queer graphic novels available right now. This list might not be exhaustive by any means, but these are all queer graphic novels and manga that have affected us and we hope that you will love equally. Queerness has stuck its flag in the comics and manga scene, and we are living for it. Here, you’ll find a lesbian memoir, a gay romance, queer graphic novels filled with asexual and non-binary characters, as well as books by trans writers featuring trans characters. Being queer means a lot of things to a lot of people, and here we have attempted to represent a broad scope of queer writers and stories within the world of comics, graphic novels, and manga.