Superhero Parody

Everything Am Reversed on the Bizarro World!

One page (cover); drawn 1986; published in Gay Comix #8
© 1986 Robert Triptow

Also known as “Yag Tragix,” because it was an alternate cover for Gay Comix and everything is reversed, etc.

The editors at DC Comics obviously weren’t thinking of sexuality (or society’s attitude toward it) when they created the backwards Bizarro people, imperfect duplicates of Superman and Lois Lane, etc., etc.

Fa-a-abulous Four

One page; drawn 1986; published in Gay Comix #8
© 1986 Robert Triptow

Here was my chance to make some disturbing comparisons between the homophobic comics fanboys who live in the Marvel universe and those Castroid clones who adore all things gay.

Too bad my page count was cut in half. I did this comic instead.

+ Persons

One page; drawn 1986; published in Gay Comix #8

© 1986 Robert Triptow

A new cartoonist promised me a great parody of the X-men, but couldn’t deliver the goods. But the cover of Gay Comix #8 had already been printed with “+ Persons.” Everything had to go to the printer on Monday. What to do, what to do?

When you’ve got a lemon, make lemonade. I hurriedly turned the X-men into cockeyed optimists. People who were too cheery always seemed like mutants to me anyway.