Author Archive for Alex Woolfson
Filmmaker by day, yaoi creator by night, Alex has dedicated himself to helping cute guys fight evil and find love.
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 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
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.
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!
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.
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 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
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.
Alex on Twitter
You can follow Alex on Twitter now, if you’d like. His username is alexwoolfson. Just don’t expect him to only talk about yaoi — Alex gets his geek on in a variety of ways.
Gay Comic Review: Max & Sven by Tom Bouden
An often funny, truly poignant and honestly illuminating view of what it is to grow up gay at the turn of the millennium. Despite its cartoony art and occasional comic misfires, this book has characters you care about wanting things that matter. Out of all the books I’ve reviewed so far on this blog, this graphic novel does the best job of sharing what it is really like to be a young gay man — and it does so in an entertaining and engaging way. If you are looking for a good story with many good chuckles and some hot, cartoony sex, you should buy this book.
Yaoi Art: “Tough” Lettered Pages
Alex just completed lettering our next free comic, “Chapter One: Tough”, and got so excited that he had to share the first 12 pages. If you’ve been wondering what all these hot-and-bothered, cute guys have been saying to each other, read on!
Gay Comic Review: Side by Side by Mioki
A full-color, nearly plot-free, 119-page graphic novel with very beautiful and very shallow young, white twinks having explicit, clean, joyful and idealized sex for love and money. If you need actual plot and compelling characters to enjoy a romance comic, this book will disappoint. If, however, you like the kind of guys depicted in Freshmen magazine and your needs can be satisfied mostly visually, you should run, not walk, to pick up this book.
Who Really Reads Yaoi in English?
Communications professor and literary author Dru Pagliassotti has written a scholarly paper about Western yaoi fandom revealing the results of a 2005 online survey. Alex links and shares some of her provocative findings– with a few caveats.
How To Succeed As A Freelance Artist
The best advice Alex has found so far for making money while making comics.
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