New exhibit spotlights queer voices through comics

SINTA: Queer Stories Across Asia opens at Ayala Malls The 30th.

The Philippine International Comics Festival (PICOF) has announced “SINTA: Queer Stories Across Asia,” an international comics exhibition that explores how queer stories have traveled across Asia through the medium of comics.

Co-organized with The Japan Foundation and Komiket, the exhibit aims to gather queer artists, authors, and creators from Japan and Southeast Asia for a cross-cultural exchange centered on queer experiences portrayed through art.

As part of its goal of examining “the evolving contours of queer intimacy,” the exhibit also focuses on the evolution of Boys’ Love (BL), tracing the genre’s journey from Japanese girls’ comics to its influence on queer storytelling and readership today.