4 Perfect Queer Romance Graphic Novels

This magical girl (gender neutral) softball romance in three volumes also acts as a coming-of-age story of Mickey Monsoon, the best pitcher this side of the Atlantic. When their oldest friend comes back on the scene, there is much drama. And when her ex appears with a new team on the block designed specifically to send everyone home crying, things just continue to escalate. This is a delightful, funny, messy story of three people figuring themselves out and helping each other to become their best person, both on and off the field.

We don’t get a whole lot of Edwardian romance in any format, and this delightful story is a quiet, lovely look at two women working in service. Patience, a new parlormaid, doesn’t make the best first impression on lady’s maid Esther. But they’re roommates, and they have to work together and live together. As they get to know each other and experience the changes that the world is introducing in both their small environment and across the world, they can grow together. Please note: this book contains graphic depictions of sex.

If you love a foodie romance, this one should definitely be on your radar. Laurie is a food blogger who has been trying to get a story on handsome and talented chef Oryan Adjei for years. When he finally gets a sit-down with the celebrity cook, things don’t work out as expected. But they keep finding their way back to each other, and eventually begin a friendship through conversations about food, dreams, and life. They’re sweet bbs who deserve the world, even as they keep making silly mistakes. 

What if Emma, but queer(er)? (That girl is definitely on the aroace spectrum.) This is the question Hari Conner asks in this story of dear friends who don’t want to leave their quiet corner of the world, and certainly don’t want to go on the marriage market. George likes nothing better than spending time with their best friend Eleanor, particularly when they don’t have to think about the estate they have to run and the dresses they would love never to wear. When Eleanor’s cousin Charlotte comes to stay, the three of them become inseparable, but know that the tides will soon have to change. 

This is NOT a graphic novel. It is a novel novel. But it is an illustrated novel novel, and it is a gorgeous piece of art, created by a writer who also creates in the graphic novel realm. Benny is an ironworker in 1910s New York who gets commissioned to build a strange glass box. When he discovers what—or more, who—the glass box has been created to contain, he is torn between helping the captive creature he’s drawn to and staying loyal to the found family of his Coney Island sideshow cast.