Kyle's Bed & Breakfast by Greg Fox
The long-awaited second collection of the wildly addictive syndicated comic strip Kyle's Bed & Breakfast has arrived This volume finds the boys of the harbor-town B&B up to their collective ears in romance, drama, intrigue, insanity, laughter and the occasional heartbreak. sometimes all in the same episode The regulars are all here: Brad, the hunky, closeted minor-league baseball player.Lance, the take-no-prisoners ad exec.Richard, the club-hopping, gossip-spreading fashion plate.Eduardo, the struggling college student.and Kyle, the warm, compassionate, calm at the center of the storm around whom all the whackiness unfolds We also meet some new characters, such as the gruff, buff Canadian hockey player Breyer and the mobility-challenged sci-fi maven Dave. As always, mixed in with the laughter, some serious issues facing the gay community are addressed, too. but never in a heavy-handed way. Also included is a three-episode story never-before printed elsewhere, and a nice Who's Who section introducing you to all of the major & minor characters. You don't need to have read the first volume to enjoy this; the strip is designed so newcomers can jump right in and join in the gay antics (And you don't need to be LGBT, either. the comic strip has plenty of straight fans). It's hard to think of these characters as cartoon characters once you get involved in their various stories; there is a humanity & heart-felt backstory behind each one of them. Once you check into Kyle's B&B. you'll never want to leaveGreg Fox started drawing cartoons at the age of twelve, publishing his first strip in his high school newspaper at the age of fourteen, and continuing to draw and write comic strips throughout high school and college. He graduated with a B.A. Geneseo College is located in upstate New York. Following college, he played guitar in many New York-based rock bands before diving headfirst into the world of comics. His artwork has featured in a variety of publications, including Triumphant Comics and Marvel Comics, as well as periodicals like Blue, the Advocate, Genre, and others.
He's also the creator/writer of Manic Music (based on his experiences in the rock music industry) and An Angel's Tale. Kyle's Bed & Breakfast, Fox's most well-known comic strip, debuted in late 1998. The comic is currently syndicated in a number of periodicals around North America, as well as having a large online following. Kyle's B&B's first book collection was released by Fox in September of 2004.
In 2005, the book was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Best Funny Book of the Year. In 2007, he won the grand prize in the Lambda Legal-sponsored Life Without Fair Courts cartoon contest. Kyle's Bed & Breakfast: A Second Bowl of Serial, a sequel to Kyle's B&B, was released in April 2012. In November of 2012, Sugar Maple Press released a new edition of Kyle's B&B's first book.
Kyle's Bed & Breakfast: Hot Off the Griddle, a third collection of Kyle's B&B, was released in September 2013, marking the strip's first appearance in full color. Greg Fox served as editor and photographer for the Sugar Maple Publishing Anthology of Nature Poetry, which was released in the spring of 2014. Fox is presently based in Northport, Long Island, New York, where he is working on new episodes of Kyle's B&B, as well as numerous other Sugar Maple Press book projects, including the fourth volume of the Kyle's Bed & Breakfast series.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780615627052 |
| ISBN 10 | 0615627056 |
| Title | Kyle's Bed & Breakfast |
| Author | Greg Fox |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Sugar Maple Press |
| Year published | 2012-04-12 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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