Joe Glass

The Pride has launched a Kickstarter for a 260+ page Hardcover Collected Edition!

The Pride, launches a new Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for the printing of a massive, oversized hardcover collection of the LGBTQ+ superhero action adventure series, The Pride.

 The Pride stars FabMan as he decides enough is enough with the poor representation, treatment and media coverage of LGBTQ+ superheroes and decides to bring together his own team of queer powerhouses. Including Wolf, Muscle Mary, Twink, Bear, Frost, Angel, White Trash and Cub, The Pride fights for justice and diversity…but is the world ready for them? And when the villainous Reverend and his terrifying lackey Basher set their sights on world domination, The Pride may be all that stands between us and total chaos.

 The hardcover collection will collect all six issues of The Pride volume 1, plus all three issues of anthology sister series, The Pride Adventures, along with tons of exclusive content and bonus materials. Clocking in at over 260+ pages, the Kickstarter aims to not only print the books but bring a large print run so The Pride can reach as wise an audience as possible.

 Featuring artwork from a true community of incredible talent including @kristaferanka, @csmithart, Gavin Mitchell, Jacopo Camagni, Dani Abrams, Dan Harris, Jamal Campbell and many, many, many more!

 The Kickstarter is now live! Rewards include the book in print and digital, via DRM-free PDF or Comixology, as well as prints, posters, badges and exclusive sketches and commissions by superstar artists Kris Anka and @kevinwada

 The Pride has been a work from my heart for a long time, and the support of the fans and community has been out of this world. I hope we can make something really special with this Kickstarter and bring the book to even more people all over the world.

 The Pride #1 was one of the Top 25 Comixology Submit Titles of 2014. 

“I highly recommend this smart, charming, wonderful book to anyone who likes good comics. It’s absolutely a pleasure to read and a clear labor of love.” - Gail Simone, Batgirl, Leaving Megalopolis, Clean Room

  “THE PRIDE. Old-School and Progressive at the same time. Classic, high-energy superhero action that gives the queer community the heroes they’ve always deserved.” - Steve Orlando (Midnighter, Virgil)

 "Brilliantly progressive and strikingly relatable - The Pride delivers.“ - Mike Garley (The Kill Screen, Samurai Slasher)

 You can help support The Pride volume 1 Hardcover Collected Edition on Kickstarter here!

 The Pride can also be found on Facebook and twitter!

Amazing! A five star review for The Pride #4!

Another fantastic and fabulous review for The Pride #5, our latest issue, along with some lovely thoughts on the series thus far. Really pleased with this one, a really thoughtful and positive review. Hope I can keep it up :)

The Pride #5

Written by Joe Glass Art by Kendall Goode, Gavin Mitchell, JD Faith, Jack Davies, Christian Wildgoose and Marc Ellerby Colours by Ben Wilsonham & more Letters by Mike Stock

Cover Art by Cory Smith and Ben Wilsonham

”Cabaret”

Join us for our artist packed jam issue!

The Pride faces the loss of one of their own, and a new addition. As members break down and find each other, the Reverend finally lays his nefarious masterplan bare…and The Pride may be all that stands between him and world domination!

Bring your hankies and prepare for the feels in the penultimate issue of The Pride!

Now with preview of the issue! Check out the glorious first few pages of issue 5 by the incredible Kendall Goode, and the comic also features art by Gavin Mitchell, Jack Davies, Christian Wildgoose, benwilsonham marcellerby and jdmakescomics.

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Buy the comics at The Pride Store!

Hey hey hey! Stop right there! I´ve been veeeery busy (and absent, too, I know) but with a  good reason. I´m preparing a Con (I will share a table with the amazing Maxime Garbarini) and we have a looot of things coming. While we all wait, consider giving The Pride a chance. It is an amazing comic book, made out of pure nerd love by a team of great people commanded by Joe Glass. It has received amazing reviews (Gail Simone approved, guys, seriously!)  The 5th issue is just fresh out of the oven, so close to the end of the first arc that you can almost taste it.

Signal boost! Anyone else wanting to reblog and boost this, it’d be much appreciated!

The Pride Christmas Pack!

To celebrate Christmas, I’m having a massive sale on Pride comics, so you can top up, get the comics for the first time to discover the best LGBTQ superheroes around, or buy the comics for your friends and family so they can enjoy too!

We’re doing several levels of offers, too.

Buy at least 3 print comics and use discount code FANTABULOSA for free shipping!

Buy all the digital PDF comics and use code PRIDEPACK for 15% off your order!

Or, for the full Pride shebang, the ultimate LGBTQ comics Christmas present, buy ALL print comics AND the two gorgeous, limited edition prints by Kevin Wada (kevinwada) and Cory Smith (csmithart) (which are currently half price!) and use discount code MERRYXMAS for a massive 20% off your whole order!

So celebrate Christmas with The Pride now! I’d say to guarantee you get your orders in time for Christmas, the next two weeks will be the best time to order!

Head over to The Pride store and get your Christmas Pride now!

Please REBLOG like crazy guys! Spread the word! And if you want some Christmas Pride order now to make sure you avoid disappointment!

gaycomicgeek gaycomicbookwednesday queercomicsblog any chance of reblog to help spread the word and LGBTQ superhero Christmas joy?

And to all my followers, please, please, please reblog like crazy :)

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It can be really frustrating working on the comics sometimes.

There’s a large, vocal audience declaring how much they want to see more diversity in comics and more LGBTQ characters. I was one of them, even. And it’s why I made The Pride.

However, when an indie project comes out with just that, a lot of this audience don’t actually buy the product they’d been calling out for: because it’s not from Marvel or DC.

Fact is though, if an audience doesn’t prove a desire and market for such a product, they won’t be willing to take a risk on creating one of their own. 

Obviously, I’m small press. I self-publish. I pay to get the comics made out of my own pocket. At the moment, there’s still around £5000 to pay artists for work and get the rest of the series printed when it comes to it. This isn’t even taking into account the cost of postage etc…it’s hard work, and takes up a lot of my time and money.

But it’s a labor of love, so I keep working at it. I wouldn’t change that for the world. But I do wish that I was able to pay the artists faster and could afford printing easier.

The Pride has 841 Likes on Facebook. If all of them bought just one copy of The Pride digital issues (at just £1.50), any issue, that would raise a massive chunk needed towards paying off the remaining artists! It would literally fund itself. I wouldn’t make any money myself, but I don’t care about that. This project is as much about building my profile and name as a writer than it is about getting rich…I will never get rich off The Pride, but I love doing it.

Likes are all well and good, honestly they are great and a massive help in their own right, but it doesn’t help me actually make the comics. And it’s frustrating to see this market, this audience, saying they want a product and then just…not.

Just felt like sharing that is all. In case anyone is considering making comics of their own. Obviously, I don’t want to scare anyone off: you wanna make comics, make comics. But be prepared for hard times and struggles, but if you work hard it could well all be worth it in the end.

And of course, if you do want to buy The Pride, you can do so here.

I really do recommend this book, it’s absolutely a pleasure to read and a clear labor of love.

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You like it, you buy it. It’s very simple guys, it’s time to get more proactive in the community’s you want to be represented more. I was lucky enough to buy an issue of the Pride at SDCC. That is actually how I first discovered the art of Kris Anka.

Umm...at SDCC? I've never been, and I've never sent any there. Curious. Looking into that. But I do agree with those points. Liking and spreading the word obviously is a MASSIVE help to us, but the only way bigger companies take notice of new markets and voices is to show that there is a market/voice there. 

Like it and if you can, then please try it out too and buy. If you can't afford to at this time (even as low as £1.50), then reblogging, sharing, and adding your opinions as to why you think this is important is a great way to help us out too :)

Thanks all!

The Pride #1 was one of the first comic scripts I ever wrote. It took me a long time to be ready to show it to the world, as it felt so personal to me. And also, needed to find artists. Thankfully, regular collaborator, Gavin Mitchell, came on board to help me start this world.

We also had Kris Anka, Marvel artist extraordinaire, to make a cover for us, and artists JD Faith and Marc Ellerby to create some of the extra pages, which explore the origins of White Trash and Wolf. 

All these guys have been super-supportive of my little dream of getting more LGBTQ characters in comics, and having an open gay team of superheroes.

The Pride #1 follows the amazing FabMan (Tomorrow’s Fabulous Man, Today!) who is sick of being seen as a joke (camp guys are heroes too!) and decides to form a team of the best, greatest LGBTQ superheroes around! And so The Pride is born! Muscle Mary, Wolf, Twink, White Trash, Angel, Frost and Bear face a world ready to judge them before they know them, but they will surprise the whole world! That is, if they survive the mysterious, shadowy plot building in the background.

You can buy copies of The Pride #1 here, in both digital and print formats.

I supported this title when it was on kickstarter and two issues in I haven’t been given cause to regret it the decision.  It’s a great comic and totally worth picking up!! 

Aww, thanks for the comments! I am so glad you're enjoying the book!