Boy gets virus.

Boy draws comic strip.

Hilarity ensues.

A graphic rendering (OK, OK, it's a comic-strip) guide to living with HIV and AIDS, by Chris Companik When I first got the diagnosis, I remember complaining to a fellow friends (also HIV+) "Why don't they hand you something when you get news like this?" A subsequent therapy session, general b.s..-ing with friends, a reminder I wasn't doing "How to build a sidewalk" brochures any longer, and soon, "HIV + Me" was evolved.

Special thanks go to many people including Marty McNeill, Charles Dickey, Liz England, and in memory, Steve Warner, Art Prillaman, Loy McNeill, Brandon Abernathy, Joe Greenwood, and Pedro Zamora, (the latter of which I never met but his spirit never left me.) And on a more recent note, I'd like to especially thank Judd Winick (Pedro and Me) who understands why I've kept doing this. And has unofficially promised to write the introduction of the book (whenever THAT may be...) And that new header in blue above comes from, of all places, a Hungarian website which links to this one, and their description of this site.

updated March, 2010

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Select Another Strip Match Game Next for Norvir The Elite Society of the Undectables John King and His Cool Magic Wall HIV+ People Have the Best Sex The Getaway Car Wake Me Up Before You Blago Joe Greenwood Microbicides Giving Blood at the San Diego Comic-Con Sweet Dreams Are Made of This Mac vs. PC The Stimulus Package Spitzer Swallows Ft. Lauderdale... or Urinetown? Dental Care I`ve Looked at Clouds from Both Sides Now The Donut Hole Topkatz the Naltorian Bedtime TV Vacationing in Damascus The HIV Drug with NO Side Effects A Letter from Bill Frist Paintball! Dangerous Comics Hello, My Name Is... Comic Strip Characters Convention Got Some Bad News and Some Good News Just Needs a Little Salt On the Way to a Million The First AIDS Musical Martha Stewart Is in Our Dumpster Saving Face Too Many Balls Pills: How NOT to Be Seen On Hold The USA Today Pie Chart The Call in the Middle of the Night A Delicate Operation The HIV+ Paper Chase The FDA Meets Homeland Security Buffy the Former Vampire Slayer Drug Trials & Tribulations Food Glorious Food A Visit with Nick and Jessica The Price Is So NOT Right Counting Blue Pills Shipping to India The Stay-out-of-Jail Card The Good Name of Tina The ADAP Duck O Canada Queer Eye for the HIV+ Guy Joining the X-Men Back in Our Day You HAVE to Do a Strip About... The Fishing Trip The Flasher and the Drag Queen At Bat I Want My HIV TV! The HIV+ Dating Game Emily Litella Dawn Averitt The Football Heartsong Laverne & Shirley... and the Rest We Have SO Much in Common Just My Type I´d Like to Teach the World to Sing We´re All Wasted! Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Another Day the Earth Stood Still Where DO They Get These Numbers? The Cheap Cell Phone The Sustiva Olympics The Math Lesson September 11, 2001 Baggage Is That a Greg Louganis in Your Pocket... Returning to Work Bridget Jones´Diary, Pt. 2 A Card for Every Occasion They´re Too Small for Me Fraudulex Undetectable Meeting Judd Rapunzel Planning a Vacation Dr. Laura & the Tribal Council Expiration Dates Rocker Sensitivity Training Milk Thistle John Rocker Horror Picture Show 60 Years from Now Whatever Happened to the Dinosaurs? Therapies of Tomorrow Expanding One´s Vocabulary Livin´ HIV Loca Bewitched Green Acres Radio Radio Lucy Does a Protease Inhibitor Commercial Titanic Breaking the Record Disclosure Today Mushrooms Rent Condoms Come to South Park Barebacking Sleeping Beauty Cocktail Attire Pets Virus Wars Half-Full or Half-Empty Christmas Wishes They´re Outside Smoking The HOV Lane The Protease Nazi Phantom of the Office Campfire Stories Peer Counseling On Trial Travelin´ Medicine Show Secret Origins Water Water Everywhere Good Sex Vengeance Is Mine... The 100 T-Cell Pyramid Telling Others The Original Three Episodes

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