Andrew "Aethan" French Email: paulie@rabco.org Web: rabco.org/circles Andy French's published writing career coincides with his decision to come out. Coincidence? Actually, it's because his first professionally published work was in an anthology of gay erotica and he wanted to tell his parents that he had been published.That story, "Full Moon Fever", can be found in the anthology Wired Hard from Circlet Press. After this came a number of "anthropomorphic animal" stories, on the internet, via the website he shares with his husband of three years, Steve Domanski. Andy co-created and scripted Circles, a gay, anthropomorphic animal slice-of-life comic, the third issue of which is coming soon from Another Rabco Disaster.This series is ongoing and Andy is very pleased with the reception it's receiving. It is his first work in comics.
Roberta Gregory’s Naughty Bits
Devin is happy to find herself back in her old Oakland, California stomping grounds after a wonderful four-year stint in New York, but even happier to have landed in Blüdhaven.
Devin Grayson Email: DKGrayson@aol.com Web: devingrayson.com
Roberta Gregory
Once an aspiring novelist, Devin Kalile Grayson has spent the last five years in love with comic books, a medium she never had the opportunity to explore as child. Grayson broke into the industry in 1997 with "Like Riding a Bike," a ten page Dick and Donna story for The Batman Chronicles 7.That led to a Batman Plus special with Arsenal, the Catwoman and Nightwing annuals for that year and then the Catwoman series at DC.
Email: roberta@drizzle.com Web: robertagregory.com drizzle.com/~roberta Roberta Gregory has been creating her own unique comics for over twenty years. She appeared in many issues of Gay Comix/Gay Comics and self-published Sheila and the Unicorn and Winging It, both of which studied gender issues. She also self-published two of the three issues of Artistic Licentiousness, which she describes as "a sort of bisexual love story."
Devin went on to write for many other projects, such as Relative Heroes, a creator-owned limited series following the adventures of a new group of teen heroes called The Weinbergs, which featured a gay team leader. She also had a two year run on The Titans and several miniseries.The Vertigo miniseries User, which dealt with sexual identity issues and online role-playing, was nominated this year in the "Outstanding Comic Book" category by GLAAD.
Roberta is best known in the comic world for her long-running Naughty Bits series, starring the unforgettable Bitchy Bitch, still coming out quarterly from Fantagraphics Books.The latest of five Naughty Bits trade paperbacks, Bitchy Butch: The World's Angriest Dyke, is available, along with most of her other books from Roberta herself. Send a SASE to her at PO Box 27438, Seattle WA 98125 for a catalog, or check out her website for all the details.
Devin’s success in the industry has been showcased in mainstream media such as USA Today, Working Woman and Entertainment Weekly and also in alternative press such as The Village Voice, The Advocate and Curve. Most recently, Devin has completed a twoyear plus run on Batman: Gotham Knights and is currently thrilled to find herself working on X-Men: Evolution, the Marvel comic book based on the hit TV series. Matador, a creator-owned project with artist Brian Stelfreeze, is due out from Wildstorm later this year and she's writing Nightwing for the DC Bat-office.
Roberta has just published Bitchy Strips, a collection of the Bitchy Bitch weekly newspaper strips.The “Bitchy Bitch“ animated cartoons for Oxygen Network have expanded into a second season of 11minute shows. Roberta is the script consultant and model designer.They are shown on the “XChromosome” show weekend nights on Oxygen Network, or can be seen on the Oxygen.com website.
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