Author of My Brother's Husband Set to Release New Queer Graphic Novel
The legendary manga artist and writer Gengoroh Tagame, author of the critically acclaimed My Brother's Husband, is set to release an LGBTQ+ graphic novel titled Our Colors this June. Our Colors will follow Sora Itoda, a closeted gay Japanese 16-year old struggling with his identity in an emotional story about self-acceptance, family, and intergeneration support.
Gengoroh Tagame is a gay Japanese man who is often regarded as one of the most influential creators in the genre of gay manga, first gaining prominence as a contributor of art to the magazine Badi before finding major success after co-founding the gay men's magazine G-men in 1994. Tagame's art, until the early 2010s, was typically incredibly pornographic and erotic, emphasizing the hypermasculinity of gay male culture and focusing on themes of sadomasochism and violence. However after the breakout success of his 2014 manga My Brother's Husband, Tagame gained mainstream attention and has continued to produce works that focus on LGBTQ+ themes of acceptance and belonging that are not intrinsically sexual in nature, while continuing his erotic queer work as well.
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My Brother's Husband was a 4 volume manga series that followed a sweet and sentimental story about a homophobic man and his young daughter in Japan learning to accept and love the Canadian husband of his recently deceased twin brother. My Brother's Husband won an Eisner Award and a Japan Media Arts Award and was adapted into a very well received anime series as well. Now, Tagame has written a 500+ page graphic novel, Our Colors published by Pantheon and translated from Japanese by Anne Ishii, that continues to follow the themes
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