The Sci-Fi Comic Book That Portrays Gay Romance as Completely Ordinary
<em>Artifice</em> is a well-written, cleverly plotted action-romance with two likable, appealing leads who both happen to be men.
The sci-fi android romance comic Artifice is arresting—but not because it features gay protagonists. Rather, it's arresting because, reading it, you suddenly realize the extent to which gay protagonists are normal.
"Normal," in this context, means a couple of things. Most straightforwardly (if that's the right word here), writer Alex Woolfson and artist Winona Nelson are working in the yaoi comics genre. Yaoi—also referred to as boys' love or BL—is a Japanese comics (manga) genre written mostly by women, for women, which focuses on romance between gay men., published in book form this month, first appeared as a webcomic on Woolfson's website, which is called .
