Steve MacIsaac

Steve MacIsaac is a Canadian comics artist and creator living in Long Beach, California. He is known for his comics series Shirtlifter (2006-2019) and the graphic novel, Unpacking. His comics focus on the lives and relationships of contemporary gay men, from marriage to casual encounters. His work has been collected in “Best American Comics”, and other anthologies.

Career

Early in his comics career, MacIssac published gay male erotica. In 2006, he collaborated with writer Dale Lazarov on Sticky, a wordless graphic novel focusing on the sex lives of gay men. However, since 2006, he has focused on his series about gay men's relationships and experiences in the early twenty-first century, Shirtlifter (vols. 1 - 6 ). Shirtlifter is an anthology series in which MacIsaac has focused on creating short stories and serializing long-form comics work, such as his graphic novel, Unpacking.

MacIsaac's comics explore the varied facets of gay men's lives and experiences in modern life, including sex and sexuality. MacIsaac won the inaugural Queer Press Grant for LGBTQ comics creators from Prism Comics (with Todd Brower), Stripped, Boy Trouble, Blocked, and “Best Erotic Comics 2009.