Chelsea Boys is an American comic strip created by Glen Hanson and Allan Charles Neuwirth, about the lives of three gay male roommates living in New York City's Chelsea district.
Stylistically, the strip is very much "of its time", reflecting the prevailing fashion for heaviness of line and a tendency to angularity.
Hanson and Neuwirth signed a deal in 2005 with Logo to develop a television animated series based on the strip, but after several months of development the network declined to move forward, citing budget concerns.
While cautioning that it was easy to forget that some of the content might be "too strong" for younger readers, Publishers Weekly said about the Chelsea Boys book in 2003 that "The lessons of shared humanity are appropriate for all ages, though, and they're served up in such a frothy plot and masterful depiction that the medicine is almost entirely disguised by the massive spoonful of sugar.
"[1] A review of the Chelsea Boys book in Entertainment Weekly stated, "The Boys may be vividly drawn and their stories memorable, but the creators want it both ways, reveling in LGBT stereotypes while sermonizing against them.