This one is a pastiche of the cover for TV Party, the classic EP record by Black Flag. Ask your parents.

The metro Grand Rapids transit system is half-cleverly named The Rapid. Nowhere near as good as most European cities’, but pretty good for a US city this size.

The book that Jason and Scout are enjoying there is one of a several produced by Julius for the publisher of Handjobs magazine. These typically featured Tom-of-Finland-inspired muscular daddy types, paired with innocent young twinks, which I was surprised to find that Scout found really sexy. I used the same typeface as Back Alley Graffiti…

As I was working on this tale, I also adapted it for You Are Not Alone, an anti-bullying anthology intended for older kids and teens. The most obvious change was to get rid of most of the nudity, but it also needed a less risque resolution that offered a better example of how to handle…

Bisexuality is confusing to many people… including bisexual people. Like… when and how do you tell people about it? A straight boy doesn’t have to explain his sexual history to a girl before bumping fun bits with her, but apparently he’s expected to do that if that includes boys.

Something I’ve gone back and forth about in the storytelling of this series is what to tell, what to show, and what to imply. There are things I’d rather not go into, and the events directly preceding this episode are among them.

This tale was conceived as a pun and a challenge: to do a story that consisted entirely of… talking heads. In addition to being the name of one of the most innovative bands of the 1980s, it’s also disparaging term for a comics scene that consists of nothing but close-ups of people talking. I resolved…

One of the challenges of this series has been matching the art with the tone of the tales. One way I’ve done that has been collaborating with other artists, but funds and opportunities for that are limited. The tales involving “Sir” have been some of the biggest stretches for me, since this kind of gritty…

When I first published this story, a few months into posting parts of the series, Scout kinda surprised some people, who thought I was just doing a straightforward Gay Porn Comic. Nope. Sexuality doesn’t fit into neat little categories – mine especially – and I intended this series to reflect that.

This is one of several Tales drawn by Rick Worley whose series “A Waste of Time” told me that he would be an ideal artist to draw a gaggle of track-and-field boys, and had the storytelling chops to pull of a story without any diaglog. I was never an athlete in school (team sports are…

In semi-fictionalizing myself online, one of my favorite recurring jokes is that Jonny Quest is my cousin. I’ve had the idea for this “crossover” for a long time, and at one point I had a really great Hanna-Barbera-style artist lined up, but that went nowhere. So I decided to do it myself.

Looking for a script I could start and finish quickly, I noticed “A Fast One”. Conveniently, the Tale is only 4 pages long. Nonetheless, it’s taken me a couple weeks to get it done: such is the level of my productivity in these anxious times. It features the dom client Sir, so despite a little…