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Chelsea Boys [Paperback]

Allan Neuwirth (Author), Glen Hanson (Illustrator), Howard Cruise (Foreword)
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September 1, 2003

Chelsea Boys is the first collection of Glen Hanson and Allan Neuwirth’s popular syndicated comic strip that appears in magazines, newspapers, and websites throughout the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. The strip follows the often outrageous antics, wild sexcapades, and everyday heartbreaks of three gay roommates, as different as can be from one another, living together in a three bedroom apartment in the heart of New York’s trendy Chelsea neighborhood: cuddly Nathan, a short, neurotic forty-something native New Yorker; gorgeous, buff Sky, a naive yet deeply spiritual art student raised on a farming commune in Canada; and the fabulous black club diva Soirée, who masks his inner pain with a rapier wit and outrageous style. Filled with humor, humanity, and wry observations on life in a modern setting, Chelsea Boys presents a family you’ve never seen before, and storytelling that speaks the truth rather than playing to stereotypes.

Glen Hanson, a native of Toronto, is an internationally acclaimed designer, illustrator, writer, and art director. His award-winning work has appeared in Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek, MTV, Comedy Central, VH-1, Vogue, The New York Times, and Maxim. His character designs have been seen on animated shows such as Beetlejuice and Daria, and he designed the album cover for Blink 182’s The Enema Strikes Back.

Allan Neuwirth, a native New Yorker, writes, produces, directs, and designs for a wide variety of media, with a strong emphasis on comedy and animation. His host of writing credits includes Courage, the Cowardly Dog, Gadget and the Gadgetinis, Toonsylvania, and Dragon Tales. Together, the men have written stories for DC Comic’s Cartoon Network comic books, designed characters for Hoppin’ Jon, an independent animated short, and collaborated on Wonder Woman vs. The Red Menace for DC Comics.


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This adventure in roommate relations starts because Nathan wants to keep his beautiful, three-bedroom apartment in the heart of New York's fashionable Chelsea district. Nathan's longtime lover has died, and Nathan can't manage the rent solo, so he advertises for roommates. Along comes Sky, a sweet, naive hunk just entering art school. He's joined by Soiree, a fierce, fabulous drag queen, as the third boarder. Chelsea Boys explores the tensions, traumas and tedium of sharing living space through a homosexual lens. Among the exploits: Nathan tentatively checks out the dating scene, but breaks up with his new lover after the guy can't see the transcendence of Barbra Streisand; Soiree tells of his struggles with his parents (after a fight during his adolescence, they kicked him out of the house for being gay and never took him back); Sky horrifies the gang by having sex with a woman during Gay Pride weekend; Nathan is asked to be a sperm donor for the lesbian couple downstairs. The gay situation comedy continues, drawn with strong, b&w lines. Hanson and Neuwirth never saw a dirty joke they didn't like (or a bulging crotch they'd hesitate to render), but this work is so good-natured and fun-filled, readers might struggle to remember that the content may be too strong for some readers (certainly young ones). The lessons of shared humanity are appropriate for all ages, though, and they're served up in such a frothy plot and masterful depiction that the medicine is almost entirely disguised by the massive spoonful of sugar.
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Product Details

  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Alyson Books; First Edition First Printing, Worn edition (September 1, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1555838200
  • ISBN-13: 978-1555838201
  • Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 7.8 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #821,865 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Thrilled to see "the Boys" collected finally, September 21, 2003
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Alan Scott (Palm Springs, CA) - See all my reviews
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I have been following the Chelsea Boys for years and am thrilled to see that they have finally gotten their stories together in a book. In my opinion, this is the only strip out there in which the characters open themselves enough to expose the reasons for who they are. The boys deal with real issues that face all of us (and I mean all of us - gay or straight) in real life and gives depth and "realness" to gay people.

The writing by Allan Neuwirth is insightful and poignant. And, as always, Glen Hanson's illustrations are brilliant. I look forward to future additions to the Chelsea Boys library.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Gay Doonesbury, September 20, 2003
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With charm, wit and talent Messrs. Hanson and Neuwirth have managed to straddle the line between sweet satire and real pathos. Tempered with a feel for contemporary issues facing gay and lesbian New Yorkers, "Chelsea Boys" is like a gay 'Doonesbury'.
Beginning with a cute 'meet' we are introduced to 3 inhabitants of a Chelsea apartment share. The characters and their milieu are so sharply crafted in line and words that we identify with them immediately.
We need little introduction to recognize friends and lovers from our own lives in Nathan, Sky, Soiree, Lucie and Ricki, their follies and foibles. The authors manage to take even serious world issues (Sept. 11th) and turn them into thought-provoking, entertaining strips.
I have been a big fan of the strip since I moved to New York and its a pleasure each time I read it to see how the characters have grown as I have in this wonderful, crazy, complicated city I am now proud to call my home.
I'm so glad that I can finally read all the strips consecutively in one volume. Needless to say this will be a great gift for all my out of town friends who are sadly New York deprived.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great collection!, September 22, 2003
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Hanson and Neuwirth have created warm, acerbic, witty, and utterly human characters who totally defy the Chelsea Boy stereotype. So don't let the strip's title fool you. These guys are universal-just like gay men from Pasadena to Poughkeepsie. This is a great collection, both for the terrific drawings and the wonderfully inclusive stories about these three gay roommates and people of ages, races, and sexual orientations in their lives.
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