Forty Lies: A Work of IPSEDIXITISM - Softcover

David Shenton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0861662911 ISBN 13: 9780861662913

Publisher: Knoackabout, 2023

Synopsis

Neighbours and relatives called me names. I have been a 'Queer Cartoonist' for over 40 years and throughout this time I have been as serious, as angry, as funny, camp, and ridiculous as I can possibly be, sometimes all at the same time, beause it's how I see my job, and my duty as a gay man. I've always made LGBTQI+ cartoons and been lucky enough to have had them regularly published. I have played a central part in them, sometimes as a character or narrator, exploring gay politics from the inside perspective, which means I can criticise governments, health education offices, the church, the police, anything that is bigoted, and still laugh at myself. Attacking the haters, fighting, and trying to protect my community through my cartoons, one tiny square at a time. This anagram of a book, is a vaguely chronological patchwork of forty(ish) personal stories, that don't bear too much factual scrutiny, yet are as real and honest as need be, following the trials of Coming Out, the Age of Consent, family rejection, dodgy boyfriends, shaky career prospects, police swoops, the enemy without, queer bashers, the stern presence of HIV/AIDS, the loathsome Section 28,the friends, the outrage and outrageous, the fun, the sex, the scene, Love, Equal Marriage and bereavement... This is my History, it is the history of every 70 year old gay man in Britain today. FORTY LIES=LIFE STORY. Basically, a Comic Book, with knitting patterns.

About this title

About the Author

British cartoonist David Shenton has been creating LGBT+ cartoons and comics since the 1970s when his work started appearing in publications such as Gay News, Him and Capital Gay.Along with cartoonists such as Alison Bechdel and Kate Charlesworth, David has been at the forefront of exploring LGBT+ life and issues through cartoon and comic art in the late twentieth century. David’s other books include Get Her! (2008), Phobia Phobia (1988), Salomé (text by Oscar Wilde, 1986), Bananas Are Not the Only Fruit (1993) and, with Kate Charlesworth, Drawn Out & Painted Pink (2009). His book Stanley and the Mask of Mystery (1983) was one of the world’s first LGBT+ graphic novels. David’s strips have also featured in anthologies including AARGH! Magazine (1988), No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics edited by Justin Hall (2013) and Strip AIDS edited by Don Melia (1987). David studied printed textiles at Loughborough College of Art and received his teaching certificate at Leeds University in 1971. Alongside his career as an artist, he has also taught literacy at Norwich Prison, Hackney College, and the Education Department of the London Zoo.

Edition details

• Publisher: Knoackabout
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0861662911
• ISBN 13: 9780861662913
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288