My first colour cartoon ran this week in X-Tra West and it looks Michelin-Man phat! Henkl says the colour scheme reminds him of the Archie comics he read as a child, then I got t’laugh at him because he read Archie comics as a child.

Spent frickin’ HOURS sweatin’ over the colour of Thomas’ hoodie, Ian’s shirt, Henkl’s skin-tone, stuff like that. Originally, I choose a deep red for Thomas t’show his passion, and a grey for Ian t’show his cool remove, then figgered not only did it not look good, but the point of The Brotherhood is low-brow humor for high-brows. The symbolic-colour thing is just me trying t’get too talky and fancy again…

Anyway, I DO miss how in the smaller cities like Edmonton, where I started out as a gay, the communities mingled more. My crowd included straight girls and their hunky sexually-ambiguous boyfriends, as well as some very sexy baby-dykes.
A Friday night would find the gay boys sittin’ on couches and chairs that had been pushed against the walls, sippin’ high-balls, while the Lesbians drank beer and played floor hockey in the space that had been cleared in the middle of the room.
Miss my Lesbian friends and their belly-laughs and salty sense of humor. Some of the real-life members of the brotherhood have been mistaken for dykes more often than gay-boys, they’re that sour-lookin’…

Easter Eggs: 1) Can y’name the famous lesbians in the strip?

2) The character in the middle of the snippy trio of gays is Skip Williamson’s “Snappy Sammy Smoot” from the 60’s. The most foppish straight cartoon I’ve ever laid eyes on.

Sugar & Spice

...that's what l'il Dykes are made of...