Artist
2020, 17 in. x 11 in.
Gouache on paper
A saucy take on certain well-known sidekick. Who’s he waiting for? And what does he have in mind?
To me, the superhero genre has always lent itself to homoerotic takes—usually without much effort. The dynamic duo perhaps more so than most.
Edward Ficklin (he/him), the maverick illustrator not afraid to say gay, is a self-taught painter, writer, publisher and sometimes technologist. He creates daring and exquisite queer fantasy art, publishes queer-centered sci-fi comix, and pontificates regularly on a range of topics in his Queer Quantum Dispatch newsletter. View more posts