Chelsea Boys is a comic strip created by Glen Hanson and Allan Neuwirth, about the lives of three gay male roommates living in New York City's Chelsea district. A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a Comics artist Glen Hanson is a Canadian -born Cartoonist and illustrator best known as co-creator with Allan Neuwirth of the LGBT Comic strip In the English language, gay is an Adjective that in modern usage refers to Homosexuality. The City of New York Chelsea is a neighborhood on the West Side of the Manhattan borough of New York City. The strip first began publication in 1998. Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar)
The roommates include:
- Nathan: a 42-year-old widowed Jewish man. WIDOW is a full-length Album recorded by British rock band Ritual released in 1983 PLEASE TAKE NOTE************ Nathan is portrayed as the "everyman" of the strip, is fairly short, and has a goatee. In the traditional taxonomy of facial hair a goatee is a Beard formed by a tuft of hair on the chin Though not made explicit, it appears from context that his late partner died of complications from AIDS. He also subsequently dated Steve, who worked in the World Trade Center and was killed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The World Trade Center in New York City, United States (sometimes informally the WTC or Twin Towers) was a complex of seven buildings in Lower Manhattan
- Soirée: a flamboyant African-American man around 30 years old. African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa Performs as a drag queen. A drag queen is a person usually a man who dresses (or "drags" in female clothes and make-up for special occasions and usually because they are performing and entertaining Soirée was thrown out of his parents' house for being gay when he was a teenager, although he later reconciled with some family members at his father's funeral. Soirée's real name is Delroy Monroe, though his real name is never used by himself or most of the other characters.
- Sky: a 22-year-old Canadian art student. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page Sky, the son of hippie parents, grew up on a commune. The Hippie Subculture was originally a Youth movement that began in the United States during the early 1960s and spread around the world A commune is an Intentional community of people living together sharing common interests Property, possessions Resources, work and Income He tends toward being extremely optimistic (if slightly naive), and is cartoonishly well-built, resulting in his attracting a lot of attention from others, although he is often unaware of how attractive he is to both men and women; the gang also once walked in on Sky having sex with his friend and classmate Annie after returning from the Pride parade.
Other characters include:
- Miss Marmelstein: Nathan's pet dog, named after a character in a Barbra Streisand's character in the Broadway play I Can Get It For You Wholesale. The dog ( Canis lupus familiaris) is a domesticated Subspecies of the gray wolf, a Mammal of the Canidae family of the order Broadway theater, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located
- Richard: Nathan's best friend.
- Ruben: Richard's boyfriend.
- Annie: Sky's friend and classmate.
- Kelvin Cohen: a clothing designer; parody of Calvin Klein. A parody (ˈpɛɹədiː US, [ˈpaɹədiː] UK) in contemporary usage is a work created to mock comment on or poke fun at an original work its subject Calvin Klein Inc is an American fashion brand founded in 1968 by Calvin Klein.
- Chris: Sky's boyfriend.
- Curtis: Soirée's boyfriend, a successful lawyer. A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law as an attorney, Counsel or Solicitor; a person
- Ricki and Lucie: a lesbian couple who live in Nathan, Soirée and Sky's apartment building. A lesbian is a Woman who is romantically or sexually attracted only to other women Nathan served as a sperm donor in one storyline so that the couple could have a child (named Lindsay). Sperm donation is the name of the practice by which a Man, known as a sperm donor, provides his Semen with the intention that it be used to produce a baby
- Risa: or Reese for short, Nathan's sister who recently divorced her husband. Divorce or dissolution of marriage is the termination of a Marriage. She has two sons, Jason and Justin.
Stylistically, the strip is very much "of its time", reflecting the prevailing fashion for heaviness of line and a tendency to angularity. In terms of content and characterization, the strip bears some similarities to a 1970s and 1980s comic strip called Poppers, which was drawn by Jerry Mills, though both strips differ artistically. This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. Jerry Mills ( February 26, 1951 - January 28, 1993) was a gay cartoonist noted particularly for his creation of the "Poppers" comic
New York's Next magazine is the lead carrier for the strip, which is also syndicated throughout the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Spain and South Africa. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. The Republic of South Africa (also known by other official names) is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa Hanson and Neuwirth signed a deal in 2005 with MTV's Logo Network to develop a television animated series based on the strip. Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic An animated cartoon is a short hand-drawn (or made with computers to look similar to something hand-drawn Film for the cinema, Television or computer
Strip compilations
- Chelsea Boys. published 2003 by Alyson Books.
- Chelsea Boys Steppin' Out!, published 2006 by Bruno Gmunder Books.
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