Comic book to honour Orlando victims with LGBT love stories

A comic book will be released later this year in honour of victims of the Orlando Massacre.

Nick Duffy 

 
22^nd September 2016

 

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Backed by DC Comics, IDW Publishing the book features one hundred short comics penned by a number of writers, benefiting the fund for Orlando survivors maintained by LGBT charity Equality Florida.

 

 

 

 Titled Love is Love, the 144-page book is dedicated to the memories of those lost in the June 12 attack. 

Batwoman writer Marc Andreyko, who is organising the project, told the New York Times: “I’m a child of the 80s; I grew up with ‘We Are the World’ and Live Aid.

“Events like this shouldn’t be compartmentalised. They should hurt and we should want to change for the better.” 

A number of big comic book names including Damon Lindelof, Patton Oswalt, Phil Jimenez and Olivier Coipel will contribute short comics to the book, which will sell for $9.99.

Andreyko quipped: “I purposely said it would be a one-page thing to get people to commit.”
Love Is Love is due out on December 21. 

It is far from the first artistic tribute.

Hamilton creator Lin Manuel-Miranda captured hearts at the Tony Awards the day after the shooting with a spoken word poem.

It featured the beautiful words: “We chase the melodies that seem to find us/Until they’re finished songs and start to play,

“When senseless acts of tragedy remind us/That nothing here is promised, not one day.
“This show is proof that history remembers/We live through times when hate and fear seem stronger.

“We rise and fall and light from dying embers/Remembrances that hope and love lasts long.” 

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