![]() ![]() Cutting to 20 years later, we met Prince Siren of the Sharks. Blatant gay! It feels really good to put that in there.”Ĭastle Swimmer starts with a ball of golden light being dropped into the ocean, cracking to reveal a mermaid with golden scales, The God of The Surface names him the beacon and destines him to fulfill all the prophecies the species of mermaids hold. And so now in Castle Swimmer, it’s just blatant. It’s more implied than rather blatantly saying it. That was gay too, but I feel like if people read it, they could still deny it. ![]() It was about two girls and it was called Spread Your Wings. The second comic I made, it was more implied that they were gay. My first comic, which was like a very early version of Castle Swimmer, I wanted the characters to be gay, but I wasn’t out of the closet yet. It kind of took me a long time to be able to put gay characters into my comics. “ I mean, I’m gay, so it was a given there. In an interview with The Beat: The News Blog of Comic Culture, Martin explained why she chose to write a gay romance this way. One of the things that have made Castle Swimmer such a popular webcomic is the explicit queer representation that happens early and through out the comic. It has 2.2 million subscribers and it is the second most popular fantasy webcomic on the site. ![]() Castle Swimmer is a fantasy and gay romance webcomic hosted on WEBTOON by Iowan author and illustrator Wendy Lian Martin. ![]()
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