Our favorite queer comics creators recommend the best queer indie comics

polygon.com:

We’re living in a golden age of queer comics and queer comics creators. Queer superheroes have gone mainstream, and even some smaller titles have landed mainstream attention — like Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper, recently adapted as a buzzy, instantly renewed Netflix series, or Alison Bechdel’s autobiographical classic Fun Home, a New York Times bestseller that became a Tony-winning Broadway musical.

But while a few titles get the attention, so many other creators are out there bringing queer themes and characters to the comics industry, in stories ranging from fantasy and horror to mainstream drama and erotica to autobiographical comics that go far beyond the usual coming-out stories. Polygon recently reached out to five of our favorite queer comics creators to ask what they consider the best queer comics from the indie world, from small-press publishers to webcomics to self-published work and more.

Tillie Waldenis one of the best-known creators in queer indie comics. She’s a prolific writer and artist, known for books like the swoony road-trip fantasy Are You Listening, the science fiction epic On a Sunbeam, the autobiographical graphic novel Spinning, and most recently, the Telltale Games tie-in graphic novel Clementine.

Tillie Walden: I look for something really different than I used to when I was younger. When you’re fresh off coming out, I think you look for existence, baseline “Oh my god, a queer person exists! I love this book! It’s my new favorite book!” What’s fun about getting more comfortable in your identity is, I can be pickier. I can start to really think about the queer stories that draw me in. I find I’m very much drawn to queer stories that are positive and happy. Because so much of the queer experience