Since the decades of the Hays Code, queer characters have been pushed to the sidelines—othered, villainized, and monsterfied. As queer media becomes increasingly mainstream, the works selected and elevated by our capitalist system are those most palatable to the general public. Creature Comforts interrogates the goals of conventional representation. Who is left behind in the quest for normalization and assimilation?

Without the pressure to appeal to mass markets, the small press world is the ideal space for explorations into deviance. At Creature Comforts press, we embrace the other, recontextualize the villain, and find beauty in the monstrous.