Why are there so few straight romances?

[PassionQueen]

Some good romance comic/manga that I recommend are

• https://tapastic.com/series/Outside-The-Box1
• https://tapastic.com/series/President-Rivals-
• https://tapastic.com/series/wtsm
• https://tapastic.com/series/rnk
• https://tapastic.com/series/memoria
• https://tapastic.com/series/Forever-My-Love-
• https://tapastic.com/series/MYth-My-Seasons
• https://tapastic.com/series/ranro
• https://tapastic.com/series/Stringless
• https://tapastic.com/series/Deep-blue-sea

[J.Lovelace]

To answer your question as to why there's fewer het romances on here, think about it.
Hetero romance is in incredible amounts in any media. People who want to see same sex romance have extremely limited choices if i comes to movies. And I mean decent movies. Because everything else would be just porn.
Same goes to books. If they wanna read any of the homo stuff, it would be mostly fanfics or freelance scripts on the internet by non published authors. And video games started to include same sex couples only since few years back, slowly, some still refuse that. Only in manga sites I see a fair amount of het/GL/BL to pick from.
And most of the time those media do the same sex couples poorly. We can only depend on indie artists trying their best to be noticed.
And in the name of "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself" the comic artists draw what they really want by themselves.
It's not all of a sudden there's BL boom, it's always been there. Maybe somewhere in the future others will understand that hetero romance shouldn't be considered "normal" or "default", but also GL/BL should be available in equal amounts to everyone.

[ratique]

There are a lot of romances here, but currently they are just not as easy to find. Romances are also often embedded in other genres, like fantasy - so you might miss them when simply searching through the Romance section.

Just keep your eyes open or ask others for their favorites, and you will find a great list!

[hushicho]

It's not wrong to like what you like. It's wrong to expect others to cater to your tastes without putting forth any real energy or effort though, or offering any compensation whatsoever for playing to your tastes. This just looks like you're complaining without having expended any effort, or you'd probably realize that straight romance is the norm, and it's everywhere.

Hetero romance is all over the place, it's in all media, including shoehorned in where it honestly doesn't fit. You can't turn around without running into another straight romance story. The fact that Tapastic has some popular gay and BL titles, and that the authors feel comfortable enough to put their comics here and promote them here, is something I think is great since we are still dealing with serious discrimination and marginalization even now.

And no, gay/BL comics are not just done for the views, and no, gay/BL comics do not just instantly get thousands of views or subscribers. You actually have to work at it, and gayness does not equal an easy ticket to fame and fortune.

To be honest, I'm getting a little tired of the whining and the passive-aggressive snipes at gay/BL creators and fans. If you want to read hetero romance, there's no end of stories that revolve around that. If you want to do a comic around that, great! But it's not the fault of gay-oriented, gay, or BL creators or their comics if you're not getting the views and subscribers you would like. It takes a lot of work and indeed a lot of luck to get the eyes you need on your work. Keep trying your best, think about all the options available to you, and don't dwell on easy, handy scapegoats instead of actually addressing the problem.

One of the most valuable things I ever heard was in the brilliant "A Fat Rant." by Joy Nash. To paraphrase, we are doing ourselves a disservice every time we dwell on one single issue and use it as the explanation for all shortcomings, failures, and weaknesses. We never have to work on any real aspect of anything, as long as there's a handy excuse that must be the reason why something is happening or isn't happening. That ends up causing far more problems than it solves, including demonizing people who have nothing to do with your problems, and I'm not here for that.

[KoreanTacos]

Actually I don't think I've seen any GL comics (at least on the homepage) on Tapastic since I've started on this site... by the way if I remember correctly I believe Tapastic is a Korean company and most yaoi is the hottest thing right now, it's out of the ordinary as far as romance, and for now it's unique (as far as effeminate male protagonists being dominated by a slightly less effeminate male character goes). Honestly some of them are good (trust me I'm not into yaoi), I like Cat & Pickle. Also most straight romance is pretty cliche, I'm sure BL will die out kind of like how GL died out after awhile.

[abbastudios]

Check out Romantical Tales

[mariusthered]

TAlesfromswipecity has straight romances although they are not the main feature of the story lines (apart from one in season one.) I do have a big romance story coming up but don't know how long before it is ready three or four more seasons yet i think.

[JKNNKL]

I think if you want straight romance comics you should try like commercial manga (eg on mangafox) cuz there's more, unless you don't like manga style but anyway most of the comics here are manga style too

[Herofeeder]

you cant have romance comedy labels .you can have only one.most likely there are some good love comic disguised as comedies but are actually romance

[Vanesalisa]

LGBT stories are the hottest stories but I'm not being offensive to LGBT, I'm more of a old fashion romance man and woman but LGBT has the more interesting stories in people's eyes including the smuts of any smuts from them not judging here I'm ok with reading LGBT romance peck on the lips and being cute but not the smuts

[MissMagicGirl]

Hahaha as gay person I feel like there is straight representations everywhere LOL and never enough LGBT characters for me to relate to XD But maybe you are right in that on tapastic that is different. ^^; Never thought of it. I feel like a good recommendation is the comic Oh my Ghost. Despite me personally being more interested in GL I really love the romance in Oh MY Ghost It is so cute and I ship it so much! Its a slow burn romance and very well done

[punkarsenic]

its not wrong to like straight stuff, its just...... you have so much of it. so so much. webcomics are created independently, giving people a lot more free reign on what they can say and do in them, and while networks and publishers and maybe even viewers of mainstream media want straight stories, very few webcomic producers and fans do. most of us are lgbt (or straight girls with a fetish for BL, but i try to ignore them) so why wouldnt we tell stories that reflect us?

that being said, there are successful, high quality webcomics following heterosexual romance. plenty of them. maybe youre just so unused to lgbt content, youre exaggerating how much there is?

[punkarsenic]

ive seen about one gl comic on front page, and maybe a few more stories that centre wlw. but its definitely not to the same ratio as BL, and theres lots of kinda nasty reasons for that.

for the same reasons, i dont think BL will die out - fetishising mlm and ignoring female characters has been a fandom staple for generations, even if people stop liking yaoi as they mature, theyll always prefer yaoi-type stories, and therell always be newer, younger fans and creators creating the next My Trash Boyfriend

[MissMagicGirl]

@punkarsenic well said. I feel like that to. There is so much straight romance in all other types of media.

[MissMagicGirl]

Mysby there aren´t more gay webcomics then straight comics but the gay ones get more popular (and therefore more visible) because there is such a huge need for them. Since all movies, books and mainstream comics lacks gay representation.

[JKNNKL]

LOL why my trash boyfriend specifically?

[punkarsenic]

it has a particularly cringey name

[gosunkgugi]

What I'm curious about is what the demographics look like on Tapastic. If we are to believe OP, that would imply that there's a vastly disproportionate amount of gay male readers (or, I dunno, maybe women are into that stuff too) on this site, and I can't help but wonder why.

Or maybe it's just that the readership is split on other series, while all the gay guys are upvoting all the gay comics. What do I know.

[infectedbloodcomics]

Many webcomic readers and authors are young and straight (BL is definitely for straight girls), and they create stuff for straight people, so I have no idea where this complain comes from. Lesbian comics here on Tapastic are as rare as white flies. I only know of another two, other than my own - I'm talking about comics with actual lesbian characters, and not women who pretend to be lesbians or are fetishised according to straight people's tastes. Simply put, get outta here, you're complaining over a huge nothing.

[MissMagicGirl]

@gosunkgugi BL is mostly read by straight girls is the impression I get...

@infectedbloodcomics YES! I wish GL was as big. I would love more lesbian comics and character that (like you say) are not fetishised). My protagonist in my comic is a lesbian but my comic is more focused on adventure and comedy then romance. As a lesbian myself I really wish for more comics about queer women. I would love to read your comic!