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Tough Chapter Two: No Kissing
By Alex Woolfson on May 05, 2010  |  Comments 56

Yaoi Comic “No Kissing” Is Ready For Download!

Hot diggety! Our next free comic, the 35-page second chapter of Tough, “No Kissing”, is finished and ready for download! In this post, I’m again sharing the first 16 full-color pages of the comic and letting you know how to get the entire comic sent to you for free. And this post is also where readers are commenting about what they thought about “No Kissing”. Check it out!

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Bara Art from Kowmeiism
By Alex Woolfson on September 07, 2008  |  Comments 41

How To Find Bara In English

Like any blogger, I keep an eye on my Web site’s stats and visitors and I’ve discovered that a significant number of readers come here though search engines looking for “bara” — that is, Japanese gay male romance manga written by gay men for gay men (referred to by some as “muscle yaoi” due to the fact that the character design often is fairly muscular — particularly compared to traditional yaoi-style bishonen.)

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Yaoi Art: “Artifice” Pencils
By Alex Woolfson on June 24, 2008  |  Comments 8

Yaoi Art: “Artifice” Pencils

Hoping to see more guys in their underwear from Yaoi 911™? Then wait no longer! The pencils for the second comic — the 90-page sci-fi action-romance “Artifice” from our upcoming book Yaoi 911™: Firsts — are finally complete. So we can now give everyone a taste of what’s to come — something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time! :-D

(Oh, and I should say that one of these preview pages is even without the underwear — so read no further unless you are over 18, please!)

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Free Yaoi Comic For Registered Users
By Alex Woolfson on July 27, 2007  |  Comments 30

Free Yaoi Comic For Registered Users

So let me tell you, we’ve been awful busy lately putting together the book — super busy, crazy busy, so busy, in fact, that I haven’t had a chance to mention yet that the first story in the book. “A Shot in the Dark,” is completely finished and ready for public consumption. Well, all that is going to change right now. I’ll be posting its final pages up here (like I’ve done with its in-production pages ) sometime soon, but in the meantime, I’d like to give out a preview PDF of this complete full-color yaoi comic to those readers who’ve registered their email address with this blog. Just as a special treat. :-)

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Jeff, an inconvenient orphan...
By Alex Woolfson on June 01, 2007  |  Comments 2

Yaoi Art: Guys In Their Underwear! (“Artifice” Character Designs)

Hey, everyone! :-) The first book of the Yaoi 911™ action-yaoi series (which I’m pretty sure I’m going to call “Firsts”) is well under way. And the first story in the book — “A Shot in the Dark,” which you’ve been watching us create on this blog — is finally completely colored and lettered and you can now download the entire comic for free. But there are, of course, more stories in this graphic novel and I’d like to begin previewing them here as well, starting with “Artifice,” a comic with art created from start to finish by “A Shot in the Dark” inker and colorist Winona Nelson.

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Free Yaoi Comics

Why You Should Pay Artists For Sample Pages

A reader on our Facebook Page asked

Hey Alex, I’m curious, when you look for artists, do you go strictly by their portfolio or do you pay for sample panels?

I thought my answer might be useful for others so I’m posting it up here. :-)

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Webcomic: Go Read OGLAF (NSFW)

So, I just spent the most awesome hour reading through an online webcomic called OGLAF.COM. You should too.

Yaoi Review: Loud Snow by Tina Anderson and Amelie Belcher

Yaoi Review: Loud Snow by Tina Anderson and Amelie Belcher

Not without its flaws, this is a sweet and engaging yaoi comic by independent Western creators that delivers laughs and smiles. If you like your guy-on-guy romance to be cute and fun with strong characters who get adorably worked up and deserve to be together, it’s definitely worth the Kindle price of $4.99 and even the $8.00 pre-order for the print book. You won’t be disappointed.

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“No Kissing” T-Shirts

You folks with all your kind words got me so jazzed on the Tough project that I decided to create a T-shirt with my favorite panel from “No Kissing”. Please check it out and let me know what you think!

Cover for "No Kissing". Art by Winona Nelson. © 2010 Alex Woolfson. All Rights Reserved.

Yaoi Art: Painted Cover Art for “No Kissing”

We’re hard at work putting the final touches on the second chapter of our High School gay romance Tough, “No Kissing.” And the first thing I have to share is another wonderful painted cover by kick-ass artist Winona Nelson!

Tough: Chapter One Cover

Yaoi Comic “Tough” Is Ready For Download!

Exciting news! Our next free comic, the 35-page first chapter of Tough is finished and ready for download! In this post, I’m sharing the first 16 full-color pages of the comic and how to get the entire comic sent to you for free. And this post is also where readers are commenting about what they thought. Check it out!

Yaoi Moments In Anime

Yaoi Moments In Anime

Here’s some Yaoi Anime vids from YouTube to brighten your Valentine’s Day!

Chocolate Surprise by Lily Hoshino

Yaoi Review: Party Favors

Alex brings a yummy chocolate cake to a manga BBQ and leaves with a bag full of yaoi to review. Read on to find out whether Kumiko Suekane’s “world without girls” fantasy Once Upon A Glashma or Lily Hoshino’s virgin-sacrificing Chocolate Surprise are worth dipping your chips into.

Yaoi Review: Future Lovers by Saika Kunieda

Yaoi Review: Future Lovers by Saika Kunieda

Likable, non-cliché characters with real depth, great art and an exceptionally solid and credible love story make for a great read. Despite a somewhat weaker, more conventional B-story, this book is definitely worth your $12.95.

Painted Cover Art for "Tough"

Yaoi Art: Painted Cover Art For “Tough”

I have something very exciting to show you. As I’ve mentioned “Tough” is the first chapter in a two volume, seven chapter graphic novel, Tough (it gets its title from this first chapter). Well, our artist Winona Nelson has just finished painting the cover art for the book and here it is!

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Straight Friends Don’t Get It? Show Them: “Are You Straight?”

A lot of folks I showed this video to — both straight and gay — found it to be perfect to show to their friends who don’t quite “get it”. It certainly helps bring home the subtler forms of prejudice and ignorance that are hard for all of us to shake. Since cool people come to this blog, I decided it was worth sharing here. And let’s face it – he’s a cutie.

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How To Write Badly: The Idiot Plot Device

There are enough examples of quality writing in genre work that there is no excuse for writing stories that can’t stand toe-to-toe with more “mainstream” work. And I believe the first step to recovery is admitting that you have a problem. Thus this series of posts on “How To Write Badly” – because knowing is half the battle.

The first shameful technique we’ll discuss is something I like to call “The Idiot Plot Device”.

Amazon search for "manly dale lazarov" fail!

Amazon excluding LGBT material from searches!

Amazon seemed to have decided to unilaterally exclude LGBT books from their internal searches. So… what’s going on?

Gay Comic Review: The Book of Boy Trouble Edited by Robert Kirby and David Kelly

Gay Comic Review: The Book of Boy Trouble Edited by Robert Kirby and David Kelly

This is a great book of short comics — especially for young guys in the early stages of coming out. It pulls no punches when it comes to the realities of sex and drugs and feels totally real, but the overall tone is light, hopeful and full of energy. You aren’t going to hang any of the art on your wall, but you will definitely want to read each of these stories more than once. Even more authentic than Max & Sven, it should be part of every gay youth’s library. If you like comics of guys who fall in love with other guys, you should buy this book.