Thursday, June 28, 2007
Ken Boesem Profile
:: Posted by Bryan @ 6/28/2007 06:02:00 AM The Ottawa version of gay weekly Xtra profiles Ken Boesem, the teacher/cartoonist behind The Village, a soap-opera style strip set in Vancouver's gay village. Comics literates may also know Boesem from a silent strip in the last SPX Anthology. He is also the author of a graphic novel:
He easily breaks into a smile when he mentions the name and main character of his 2005 graphic novel, It's Monty!
"The premise of the story is it's a little boy at seven-years-old and he's as gay at seven as some people at 35," he laughs. "His mom is always wearing these 1950s clothes and is totally clueless to the fact that he's gay and she makes him mix martinis for her."
"About 13 years ago -- for reasons completely disconnected from reality -- [my mother] thought that I might be [gay] so brought it up in conversation," Boesem remembers. "It took her a couple of years to wrap her mind around it but now it's all good."
Labels: comic strips, graphic novels
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