Interrupting your ongoing SDCC coverage:

Steve MacIsaac is interviewed in the August 2009 issue of of OUT magazine in a feature titled “Comic Book Queers”. Note: the interview is not available online, only in the print edition.

MacIsaac self-publishes his comic Shirtlifter which was submitted for the 2009 Gene Day Award.

Interested in self-published comics, comix and zines? Check out this growing list of Canadian creators.

Requisite SDCC reference:

Steve MacIssac will be attending SDCC and available at the Prism Comics booth (#2146-2148) on Saturday July 24 and Sunday July 25th and participating in the panel Love Is In The Air: LGBT Romance Comics.

Saturday: 4:30-5:30
Room: 30AB

Love Is In The Air: LGBT Romance Comics

Romance Comics, once a staple of the comics industry but now considered campy curiosities, inspired a new generation which has created their own take on matters of the heart while moving beyond the boy-girl soap operas of yesteryear. Join moderator Charles “Zan” Christensen (Mark of Aeacus) and panelists Terry Moore (Strangers In Paradise), Tim Fish (Cavalcade of Boys), Mari Morimoto (Manga Translator: Naruto), Colleen Coover (Small Favors), Steve MacIsaac (Shirtlifter), and Michelle Nolan (Love on the Racks: A History of American Romance Comics) as they discuss the new LGBT romance comics.