[3] These stories contained dark and surreal motifs, mixing eroticism with hallucination and death/rebirth, a common theme in Macy's personal works.

Gilad Padva argues in his academic paper "Dreamboys, Meatmen and Werewolves: Visualizing Erotic Identities in All-male Comic Strips" (2005) that Macy's "Tail" eroticizes and politicizes Sigmund Freud's homophobic myth of the Wolf Man.

[8] He has since collaborated with various established and independent gay cartoonists, including Sina Evil and Justin Hall.

[13] He produced the self-published comic book series Fearful Hunter (2010–2014), started as an act of protest against California's Proposition 8.

[16] He has contributed to many anthologies including Justin Hall's No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics and Robert Kirby's Qu33r.