{"id":14852,"date":"2014-03-02T15:22:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T23:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2014\/03\/02\/14852.html"},"modified":"2014-03-02T15:22:50","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T23:22:50","slug":"awesome-lesbian-comic-supercak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2014\/03\/02\/awesome-lesbian-comic-supercak\/","title":{"rendered":"Awesome lesbian-protagonists comic: Supercakes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mary Anne posted a link earlier to an awesome and charming and funny and sweet and thoroughly lovely 12-page <a href=\"http:\/\/katlay.tumblr.com\/post\/55574806063\/yes-i-am-going-to-draw-more-of-may-and-molly-from\">comics story<\/a> about a woman, May, taking her girlfriend Molly home to meet her family for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>(Although it's hard to read pages 2-5 because they're so tiny, and because of the terrible Tumblr UI that doesn't let you make them much bigger. I ended up copying individual image URLs and pasting them into a new browser window where I could enlarge the images.)<\/p>\n<p>I got curious and looked around, and learned that the comic is called <cite>Supercakes<\/cite>, and it's written and drawn by Kat Leyh, and published in brief stories every few months on Tumblr. I recommend starting with the abovelinked story even though it's not the first one, but after you've read that, here are some more links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>The first 8-page story, &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/katlay.tumblr.com\/post\/31426185271\/the-mini-ive-been-working-on-for-a-couple-weeks\">Pancakes<\/a>.&rdquo; (September 2012)<\/li>\n  <li>You can buy <a href=\"http:\/\/yetipress.storenvy.com\">&ldquo;Pancakes&rdquo; in paper form<\/a> from Yeti Press.<\/li>\n  <li>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autostraddle.com\/drawn-to-comics-like-superheroes-like-ladies-then-youll-love-supercakes-197471\">article about the comic<\/a> from October 2013.<\/li>\n  <li>A three-page piece, &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/katlay.tumblr.com\/post\/31831533735\/heres-a-bit-of-family-background-i-did-for-my\">Family<\/a>,&rdquo; showing a little about May's and Molly's families. (September 2012)<\/li>\n  <li>A three-page story about <a href=\"http:\/\/katlay.tumblr.com\/post\/44354552649\/heres-a-little-may-backstory-family-stuff-her\">May as a kid learning martial arts from her father<\/a>. (March 2013)<\/li>\n  <li>For completeness, here's another link to the abovementioned 12-page story, which turns out to be called &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/katlay.tumblr.com\/post\/55574806063\/yes-i-am-going-to-draw-more-of-may-and-molly-from\">Welcome to the Family<\/a>&rdquo;. (July 2013)<\/li>\n  <li>A very brief pencils-only <a href=\"http:\/\/katlay.tumblr.com\/post\/60802113488\/a-little-welcome-to-the-family-epilogue-some\">epilogue<\/a> to &ldquo;Welcome to the Family.&rdquo; (September 2013)<\/li>\n  <li>Everything tagged &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/katlay.tumblr.com\/tagged\/supercakes\">supercakes<\/a>&rdquo; from Leyh's Tumblr.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>...And btw, Leyh mentioned in passing in a post yesterday that she's working on getting these into a form that's more readable than Tumblr.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Anne posted a link earlier to an awesome and charming and funny and sweet and thoroughly lovely 12-page comics&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-queer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}