Thursday, April 22, 2010

Archie Comics goes Gay

Wow, first an interracial kiss in Archie comics and now, a gay character!

Check it out!

Kevin Keller, who first appears in Veronica #202 released on September 1st, 2010, is a teenager at Riverdale High School, the fictional universe that has been entertaining kids of all ages since 1939.

"In the last year or two, we've been introducing a lot of new characters: Diverse characters, characters with different ethnicities. With trying to be diverse, we wanted to have everybody at the table," said cartoonist Dan Parent, who's writing and drawing the issue. "We knew at some point we wanted to introduce a gay character, and when I came up with the story idea, we felt it worked in context with this story."

So cute.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

That is very cool!!

Bob said...

You mean Archie and Jughead are straight?
Well, I never..........

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