{"id":1095,"date":"2007-12-14T02:42:50","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T06:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/2007\/12\/14\/a-yaoi-primer-for-gay-dudes\/"},"modified":"2007-12-14T02:42:50","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T06:42:50","slug":"a-yaoi-primer-for-gay-dudes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=1095","title":{"rendered":"A Yaoi Primer For Gay Dudes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"xtra-yaoi.jpg\"<\/a>If you head over to Xtra.ca, the website of Canada’s twice-monthly free gay newspaper, you can see my second article for the paper, a primer on Yaoi manga from a gay perspective<\/strong><\/a>. It’s actually based on a blog post I made here from 2 and a half years ago, which in and of itself was adapted from an article I wrote for a U.S. based gay newspaper, but which never appeared in print because they had weird rights issues. Anyway.<\/p>\n

What struck me when rewriting it (and I think it only shares maybe 1 or 2 paragraphs with the original) was how much the yaoi segment of the manga market has changed in just a few years. Where once upon a time there was only Be Beautiful, DMP, and those guys that did Skyscrapers of Oz<\/em>, there are now so many different publishers and imprints and sub-imprints producing more than 20 volumes a month! What was once an emerging category is now full-blown, and it was a real treat writing an introduction to the genre\/phenomena for a gay male audience.<\/p>\n

Even better? The story ended up as the cover-feature of the print version of the magazine! My name, finally in lights. My friend Eric Kim, illustrator of Love as a Foreign Language<\/em> for Oni Press (amongst other comics work) was comissioned to do the cover illustration, and you can see it up on the right there. He did a great job (thanks Eric!) and the paper really pops in the newspaper boxes. You can click on the image to see a larger version.
\nSo, yeah. I’m a paid journalist now, which means I’m Completely Entitled!<\/em> I get _paid_ for these opinions of mine, which makes me fabulous and insufferable! Bwahahaha!<\/p>\n

Love,<\/p>\n

– Christopher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you head over to Xtra.ca, the website of Canada’s twice-monthly free gay newspaper, you can see my second article for the paper, a primer on Yaoi manga from a gay perspective. It’s actually based on a blog post I made here from 2 and a half years ago, which in and of itself was … <\/p>\n

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