Comics have increasingly become a popular format for telling queer stories. Before Heartstopperwas one of the most popular shows on Netflix, it was a series of graphic novels by Alice Oseman. Some of the other most acclaimed comic books of the past several years — such as Trung Le Nguyen's The Magic Fish and Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer, among others — have told beautiful stories about characters coming to terms with their queer identity and figuring out how to convey it to other people in their life.