The homoerotic comic strip, as a medium and genre in its own right, integrates
several media including illustration, cartoon, animation, graphics, physique art,
and pornography. In these subaltern texts, when the characters are of the same
gender the rites of masculinity are both indulged and subverted. Hence, this graphic
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