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NO SAINTS NOR POETS #1-3: an Adventure-Romance BL Comic

Publisher: Tightrope Press
Creative Team: Iolanda Zanfardino, Martina Belli, Ilaria Chiocca
Launch Date: Currently funding – ends June 18 2026 11:00 AM EDT
Risk: Low – They’ve run a previous campaign and delivered.

Tightrope Press invites you to join them as they continue their debut comic series, NO SAINTS NOR POETS, a chaotic swashbuckling adventure-romance Comic full of sea monsters, motor-gondola races, pride, faith and love triangles.

Created by the critically acclaimed queer writer Iolanda Zanfardino (A Thing Called Truth, Midnight Radio, Alice in Leatherland, You Never Heard Of Me, Hecate’s Will, The Least We Can Do), this story marks their first steps into BL / MLM storytelling!

After their beloved city of Serena sinks into the dark waters of the lagoon, leaving it half-submerged, a charming two-bit con artist and a disenchanted former priest reinvent themselves as delivery men, skirting the thin line between piety and profanity on their motorized gondolas. As they fight for a brighter future, they soon realize that their past is not too far behind them.

In issue #3 things get more complicated for Flynn. Disgusted by the hypocrisy of the upper classes, he returns home to the man he really wants… But does he want him, too?

A conversation about hiding behind costumes and masks makes Flynn realize that he’s sick of being asked to hide his true self, though being open and honest about it comes with its own set of unexpected problems!