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''Doc and Raider'' is a Canadian comic strip, created by Sean Martin. Published in newspapers and magazines for LGBT audiences beginning in 1987, the strip's main characters are Doc and Raider, two gay men who began the series as roommates but eventually became a couple. Doc was a writer, while Raider was a construction worker. In its original format, the strip ran from 1987 to 1997. Martin subsequently revived the strip as a webcomic in the mid-2000s. ==Original strip== The strip was usually drawn as a single panel, although for some more complex stories Martin used a multipanel format. Some scenes were set in Toronto's gay village, such as the steps of the Second Cup at Church and Wellesley. In others, they Raider takes part in a rodeo.〔Martin, Sean. ''Doc and Raider: Caught on Tape'' Introduction. 1994.〕〔Martin, Sean. ''Doc and Raider: Incredibly Lifelike''. 1996.〕 The names of the characters are taken from a long-running series of western novels by J.D. Hardin, about a pair of Pinkertons agents in the American West in the 1880s. Martin has said that using the names for his own characters was a bit of "cultural sedition". The series, while primarily humorous, also addressed serious issues in the gay community. During the strip's run, Raider was gay-bashed, which led to an extended conversation between Doc and God on the nature of good and evil. In another, Doc tested positive for HIV. Towards the end of the strip, Doc's HIV status became a strain on their relationship, and a fight between the two erupted into domestic violence. In the final strip, Doc and Raider had reconciled and Raider asked Doc to have unprotected sex, although it was never revealed whether this in fact happened. The original strip was retired in 1997. In addition to the regular strip, Doc and Raider appeared in safer sex education campaigns in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The strip's appearance in newspapers and magazines around the world also allowed it to underwrite gay-related causes, everything from an arts festival in Scotland to a hospice in New Zealand, thanks to an arrangement Martin had with each publication: they were free to run the comic as they wished, but they had to put something back into the local community as compensation. It's estimated that Doc and Raider raised somewhere in the neighbourhood of $750,000 during its run. Two books were also published, ''Doc and Raider: Caught on Tape'' in 1994 and ''Doc and Raider: Incredibly Lifelike'' in 1996. Filmmaker Randy Riddle released ''Raider in Canada: A Portrait of Sean Martin'', a documentary film about Martin and the strip, in 1998. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Doc and Raider」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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