NEWS WATCH: Tapas Media Comics Hosts Virtual Pride Month

By Guest Author

on June 12, 2020

CELEBRATE PRIDE MONTH WITH TAPAS MEDIA’S VIRTUAL PRIDE PARADE OF CREATORS

The platform is amplifying its LGBTQ+ stories and creators of all backgrounds throughout the month of June.

WHEN: June 2020

WHAT: Tapas Media has launched their Virtual Pride Parade of Creators this month to celebrate its diverse range of voices, backgrounds, and experiences in its LGBTQ+ creator community. Throughout the month of June, Tapas will host a series of Q+As and Instagram features of some of the platforms most popular LGBTQ creators and stories. Users can submit questions to their favorite creators through the Tapas Instagram, @tapas_app where the creators will answer them every Monday in June on Tapas’ Instagram Stories.

Featured LGBTQ+ creators include:

‘High Class Homos’ by momozerii – https://tapas.io/series/High-Class-Homos
Lucid Memories’ by Meganebii – https://tapas.io/series/Lucid-Memories
‘Kids Being Kids’ by aiyeim – https://tapas.io/series/kids-being-kids
‘Preheat’ by Bilvy – https://tapas.io/series/Preheat
‘Jamie’ by NDGOarts – https://tapas.io/series/Jamie
‘Living When Dead’ by Koolaid-Girl – https://tapas.io/series/Living-When-Dead
‘Magical Boy’ by TheKao – https://tapas.io/series/magicalboy

Tapas is also currently hosting the Pride Comic Contest running through June 17, where users submit a comic strip illustrating how they celebrate pride. Tapas Staff will select the top 30 submissions for ssers to vote on. The top 3 submissions with the most votes will receive free “ink” — the platform’s virtual currency used to unlock episodes of premium series with paid content, and support creators directly.

Pride Comic Contest Prizes:

1st Place will win 30,000 Ink
2nd Place will win 20,000 Ink
3rd Place will win 10,000 Ink

WHO: Tapas has over 2.7 million monthly unique readers, who collectively spend upwards of 70 million minutes per month on the platform. Other popular creators on Tapas Media platform include Andy Weir (Author of The Martian), Ki Hong Lee (Star of The Maze Runner) and Sarah Andersen (Sarah’s Scribbles, FANGS). Tapas has also teamed up with other leading publishers to co-produce or distribute works from Zoic Studios, Vault Comics, BOOM!, Hachette Book Group and Ten Speed Press (Penguin Random House).

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