Brandon T Perlow

Watson and Holmes V1 Being reprinted by Fairsquare Comics in January 2023. Will be available in Comic Stores and BOOK STORES! New cover by Khary Randolph

V grumpy today ok bye

Co-signed in grumpy solidarity, because some of y’all didn’t live through the gay-panic HIV/AIDS moral hysteria of the ‘80s, and it shows.

Hair-splitting internecine infighting is exactly what the people who want us dead want us to be doing. When you try to gatekeep queerness, you’re doing their work for them. Please, for the love of everything good, knock it off.

The first time I tried to transition was in Alabama in the the early 2010s.

To keep it brief, it was hell.

It was so dangerous, I was forced to detransition and did not get the opportunity to do so again until a decade later, when I lived a very different environment and time.

A lot can change in a decade.

But I need the younger or more privileged and sheltered queer people to understand something: if it was that bad for me, a skinny white trans guy who did not look visibly disabled? How fucking bad do you think that place and time was for anyone who didn't have that leverage?

I survived by the skin of my teeth and through sheer luck; there were multiple situations I got caught in that nearly sent me down the river. And there are people who looked like me and identified like me who did not get lucky. And folks who were not white or skinny or any other factors? A lot of them did not make it. They fucking did not make it.

Because it was that bad. And in a lot of places, it is still that bad.

And that shit is what is coming. It is coming for your coastal blue cities, it is coming for your blue pockets and liberal schools, and for a lot of people, it is already here.

And the only thing that is going to keep that hateful, murdering cancer from eating us all alive is sticking together and fighting like our lives depend on it.

Because they do.

Brandon Perlow ,Paul Mendoza, and Wilson Ramos Jr of New Paradigm Studios “Watson And Holmes”  worked together on a Cthulhu short story for “Cthulhu Is Hard To Spell” by Wannabe Press for a September 2018 Kickstarter. Attached is our first page of that story. If you are going to San Diego Comicon, and you would like more information come find WANNABE PRESS at Small Press Booth K-3 (Go through entrance B2, turn right at ONI, then make a left at row 1500. they will  be the third booth on the right, next to WARHEAD). 

PS- We will be at the Afrofuturism Lounge

Friday, July 20 and Saturday, July 21 from 7PM-11PM at the Broker’s Building Gallery (402 Market St)

 on Friday/Saturday Night in the Gaslamp with some Watson and Holmes books, postcards, and FREE sketches! 

Page 4/5 spread Nimbus. This one was tougher to figure out than the last spread..

Page 2-3 of Nimbus. This was a challenging page to paint. Next one is nearly as tough… Looking forward to the few talking head pages…Onwards!

Mostly done page 1 of Nimbus.. Our next series. Art by Brandon Perlow, script Paul Mendoza

My work this time.

Characters for our upcoming series “Nimbus”. 

My designs for my next comic series.