Castroids

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It’s Pollyanna

One page; drawn 1981; published in Gay Comix #2, 1981 © 1981 Robert Triptow

I went through this experience and lived to draw about it.

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Love, Mommie Dearest

One page; drawn 1981; published in Gay Comix #3 (back cover), 1982

© 1982 Robert Triptow

My Uncle David sent me a phony postcard (from Joan Crawford herself) that inspired this strip.

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Pick-Up Lines

One page; drawn 1982; published in Gay Comix #3, 1982© 1982 Robert Triptow

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Snow Job

One page; drawn 1981; published in Gay Comix #12, 1989

© 1989 Robert Triptow

The children’s comic book Sugar and Spike sometimes ran a feature, “Write Your Own Comics Page.” They’d supply a situation comic with blank word balloons for the kids to fill out. This cartoon was lifted directly from such a page, but now starring the “Castroids.”