[Verdant]

Hey Everyone!

If you missed the previous posts about Pride High, it's an independent, gay-themed, vegetarian-friendly comic book. It follows the story of a gay-straight alliance at a high school for superpowered youth. Two of the main characters, Suravi & Kid Mischief, are vegetarian (Kid Mischief is "vegan-curious"), while a mentor of theirs, Verdant (yup, my namesake), is vegan. The first 12 of 36 pages are free, and can be accessed at

http://pridecomics.com/previews.html

It was sent to the printers on September 5th. I'm looking at (hopefully) a September 27th print release. My friends and I are planning to officially release the online version a week earlier, on Wednesday, September 20th. However, I'm releasing it here a few days early

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http://pridecomics.com/checkout.html

For friends who don't speak English as a first language, the Japanese, French, and Dutch versions of Pride High are currently in production. Previews of these are linked from the main page:

http://pridecomics.com

Best,

Tommy

 

[kpickell]

Congratuations on getting it done!

Looks very promising.

Reminds me of X-Men, except of course that X-Men's homosexual undertones stayed in the closet.

 

[Verdant]

Thanks! This past Sunday my friends and I celebrated Pride High's print release with a signing at "Whatever," the comic shop in San Francisco's Castro district. I was treated to an AMAZING vegetarian Indonesian dinner later that night as a gift

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http://www.pridecomics.com/castro-street-fair/

 

[isowish]

I just finished reading the first issue, that I bought the online version of. It's great so far!

 

[Verdant]

Glad you liked it! Here's a review of Pride High from Prism Comics:

Color Commentary: The Out Crowd

 

[Eclipse]

..Always glad to see veg*n cartoon chars. I keep asking about veg*n anime but so far there seems to be none despite the loads of anime there is.

I have veg*n chars myself, but I'm not into the story part, I just use them to build my portfolio.

If I start buying comics again sometime, I'll definatly buy one.

 

[Verdant]

Yeah, they're rare. In mainstream comics, I can only think of two:

Karolina from the Runaways

Beast Boy from the Teen Titans

In anime, the only one I can recall is Nadia from "Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water."

 

[Eclipse]

I'll have to get that anime eventually.

 

[mazikeen]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Verdant

Yeah, they're rare. In mainstream comics, I can only think of two:

Karolina from the Runaways

Beast Boy from the Teen Titans

How about Bruce Banner (aka Hulk)?

 

[Blue Plastic Straw]

Tofurkey NOT FUNNY!

*SMASH*