Les [Linda] Simpson, ed

My Comrade, No. 2: 60 Photos [Ru Paul, Tabboo!]

New York: [My Comrade], 1988. Xerox. Saddle stapled. 7 x 8 ½ in. Heavily illustrated throughout with black-and-white illustrations, photographs, and photo-collages, along with numerous illustrated ads for local businesses. Near fine. Item #10536

The second issue of My Comrade, the campy, anarchic queer zine published by drag artist, performer, and publisher Linda Simpson – this issue with pages upon pages of photographic comic spreads featuring RuPaul, Tabboo!, Keoki, Hapi Phace, John Boyer, and many more.

My Comrade was an underground gay culture zine that captured the zeitgeist of New York’s gay downtown scene. It set itself apart from the deluge of Xeroxed zines popping up in New York in the late 1980s and early 1990s through parody of both mainstream tabloid magazines and the self-serious gay press, a feisty, ironic sensibility, and radical left sympathies and sloganeering, My Comrade acted as a showcase for photographers, illustrators, and writers of the queer subculture. Eleven issues were published irregularly between 1987 and 1994, and a handful of issues have followed since in a series of reboots.

Price: $350.00