Celebrating LGBTQ+ Pride Month this June, Dark Horse Comics presents an updated reading guide highlighting comics that explore LGBTQ+ stories, themes, and characters.
Hear more from staff and creators themselves and more in this shortlist of recent comics, and find many additional recommended reads listed below.
There are many more titles from Dark Horse featuring LGBTQ+ themes and creators that readers can enjoy all year round.
Check out more Pride Reading Guides: 2019-20, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2024
The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos Library Edition Volume 1
From the multi-Eisner award-winning creator of Something is Killing the Children and Batgirl’s Tate Brombal comes this deluxe, oversized library edition hardcover of the hit GLAAD Media award-nominated series!
Meet teenage mad scientist Christopher Chaos. His brilliant mind works in ways that defy logic and enable him to do things that push him beyond his peers–but these abilities also lead others to fear him. One day, something cracks. When the cute boy at high school turns out to be a deadly creature, Christopher finds himself pitted in a world of monsters, heroes, and a cult of hunters out to kill them all.
Monsters in Love: A Pride Anthology
Beloved anthology Monsters In Love turns romance comics on their ogre-sized head with 10 swoon-worthy stories by fan-favorite LGBTQIA+ creators, including James Tynion IV, Jadzia Axelrod, Vita Ayala, Zoe Tunnell, Sina Grace, Josh Trujillo, Claudia Aguirre, Tench, and many others, just in time for Pride Month.
This super-sized special also includes a framing story by the creative team from The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos!
Did You Hear About Mimi Green?
Tastemaker Mimi Green is a popular essayist with a perfectly curated social media presence—until a blog post she wrote a decade ago, cruelly mocking fat people, resurfaces and sparks a viral furor. Mimi checks into an isolated mental health facility in Topanga to ride out the scandal, but as sound baths and crystal healings by day give way to restless nights, she’s pulled into another version of the building. There the halls are old and gluttonous and gilded, and the vainglorious like Mimi and her fellow patients are punished again and again. Only local bartender Natalie, the lesbian lover Mimi hid from the public, stands a chance of tracking her down before it’s too late.
I Am Their Silence
From world-famous cartoonist Jordi Lafebre, creator of the Eisner Award-nominated graphic novel Always Never, comes a murder mystery unlike any other.
Eva is a brilliant Psychiatrist, but this is no simple story of a clever shrink helping a patient dissect their problems. No, this story is about Eva in the throes of a bipolar episode, navigating her own spiraling mental health as she is pulled down a scandalous rabbit hole when one of her first patients and only friends has invited her to the reading of her grandmother’s living will.
The Monturos are a wine-making empire revered worldwide and their matriarch has organized a party at their villa to discuss her will and the family’s future. Their Dynasty is riddled with scandal, which is why the youngest heir, Penelope Monturo, invited the brilliant doctor along to help her through the drama. When Eva finds the families’ current patriarch dead the night before the will reading, she finds herself catapulted into a web of intrigue and deception.
With her name on the suspect list, Eva transforms into an amateur sleuth out of obsession more than self-defense. Guided by the voices of her dead relatives who seem to haunt her wherever she goes, she takes fate in her own hands and does all she can to solve the mystery of who murdered Penelope’s uncle.
Gunnerkrigg Court Volume 4
Tom Siddell’s Reuben Award-winning sci-fi/fantasy webcomic continues to be presented in print with Gunnerkrigg Court Volume 4, arriving July 2026.
Jeanne’s tragic story comes to an end, and the repercussions caused by Annie, Kat and the gang will have long-reaching consequences that plunge Gunnerkrigg Court into a terrifying new chapter of its history.
The series features queer love of all kinds, including lifelong friends-to-lovers, bashful and burgeoning young love, and the unexpected bonds between two non-humans.
Gunnerkrigg Court Volume 4 will be available in bookstores and comic shops on July 21, 2026.
The Perfectly Monstrous Life of Adam Frankenstein
From the mind of James Tynion IV, the New York Times bestselling and multi-Eisner award-winning creator of Something is Killing the Children, comes this terrifying new series spinning out of the hit three-time GLAAD Media award-nominated comics series THE ODDLY PEDESTRIAN LIFE OF CHRISTOPHER CHAOS!
Tate Brombal (Batgirl, BARBALIEN: RED PLANET, House of Slaughter) and Soo Lee (CARMILLA, Maleficent) bring fan-favorite character Adam Frankenstein to life in his own series.
This epic tale is a thrilling adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein for the modern audiences and tells the story of the heartbreaking immortal life of our titular hero, showing his origins under the knives of Victor Frankenstein. Overcoming his horrific creation, Adam Frankenstein is now the protector of all Monsterkind and his immortal mission begins here!
Collects THE ODDLY PEDESTRIAN LIFE OF CHRISTOPHER CHAOS #7 and 8 as well as THE PERFECTLY MONSTROUS LIFE OF ADAM FRANKENSTEIN one-shot.
The Perfectly Monstrous Life of Adam Frankenstein one-shot will be available in comic shops on August 26, 2026.
The Perfectly Monstrous Life of Adam Frankenstein paperback collection is available for pre-order now, arriving in bookstores and comic shops on December 15, 2026.
Strangers in Paradise Omnibus Volume 1
Celebrate the landmark series that redefined independent comics. Strangers in Paradise Omnibus Volume 1 gathers the opening arcs of Terry Moore’s Eisner Award–winning epic into a premium hardcover edition—now under the new Abstract Studio | Dark Horse Comics imprint.
Follow Katchoo, Francine, and David as their lives collide in a story that effortlessly blends romance, noir, crime, and heartfelt drama. Moore’s sharp writing and expressive artwork set a new standard for emotional storytelling, and this definitive collection presents the series like never before.
This edition features a brand-new cover illustrated by Terry Moore, along with newly designed pages created exclusively for this Dark Horse release. The volume also includes a curated selection of bonus content, offering readers a deeper look into the series.
Strangers in Paradise Omnibus Volume 1 is available for pre-order now, arriving October 27, 2026 at bookstores and comic shops.
Babanba Banban Vampire Volume 1
First moved by lust, then by love, an ancient vampire learns to care for others and respect the family that he works his “day job” for.
An unassuming worker in a long-established public bathhouse is really the lustful 450-year-old vampire Ranmaru Mori! The heir to this esteemed Koi No Yu Bathhouse, Rihito Tatsuno, is a fifteen-year-old virgin—who is about to fall in love for the first time with a girl in his class! Ranmaru begins to weave a desperate plan to prevent Rihito from losing his virginity and to make him fall for Ranmaru instead, so the bloodsucker can eventually have pure, eighteen-year-old virgin blood for his own vampiric self! This odd, hilarious, bloody love manga series from seinen mangaka Hiromasa Okujima has already been adapted into a Japanese anime series and a live-action film! Translated by Kumar Sivasubramanian (I Am a Hero, Blade of the Immortal) and lettered by Eisner Award-nominated Steve Dutro (The Fifth Beatle).
Babanba Banban Volume 1 is available for pre-order now, arriving November 10, 2026 at bookstores and comic shops.
More LGBTQ+ Titles to Enjoy
Carmilla: The First Vampire – All Three Volumes Now Available
Renegade Royale
Ripperland
Sparks – Two Volumes Now Available
Trick Pony
Pathways: Chronicles of Tuvana Volume 1
Killer Queens 2: Kings, Not Wings
Youth – Three Volumes Now Available
The Flying Ship Volumes 1 and 2
Time Traveler Tales
The World of Black Hammer Omnibus Volume 3 (collects Barbalien: Red Planet and Colonel Weird: Cosmagog in paperback)
All Eight Eyes
The Fifth Beatle – Anniversary Edition
ElfQuest: Stargazer’s Hunt
Basil and Oregano
Light Carries On
Us
Under Kingdom
And many more!
