Ménage à 3 (webcomic)

Ménage à 3 is a webcomic by Gisèle Lagacé and David Lumsdon.[1] The comic ran from 2008 to 2019.[citation needed]

Ménage à 3
Cover of Ménage à 3 Volume 1 with Didi, Zii, Gary & Lita
Author(s)Gisèle Lagacé & David Lumsdon
WebsiteMa3comic.com
Launch dateMay 16, 2008[citation needed]
End dateApril 9, 2019[citation needed]
Genre(s)Sex comedy

Premise

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Ménage à 3 is set in Montreal and centres on Gary, who initially is a virgin with little social life and a large pornography collection. After his two roommates Dillon and Matt move out, they are replaced by two women: Zii, a pansexual punk rocker with no sense of boundaries, and Didi, a naive francophone. Zii decides to help find Gary someone to lose his virginity with. Other characters include Sonya, who insists she isn't a lesbian even while having sex with women, and Yuki who suffers from phallophobia.[2]

Ménage à 3 is a sex comedy initially drawing from harem manga, with misunderstandings and slapstick. The comic features explicit discussions of sex acts and depictions of bare breasts and panty shots.[2]

Reception

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Ménage à 3 won its creators the 2018 Joe Shuster Award, a Canadian comics award, for "Webcomics Creator / Créateur de Bandes Dessinées Web".[1] It was also nominated in 2009[3] and 2010.[4]

In 2008, Ménage à 3 was the thirteenth most popular webcomic among those comics that used the Project Wonderful ad-serving system.[5]

Reviewing the comic for ComicsAlliance, Lauren Davis felt that the first year or so of strips were "a bit one-note" and "banal", leaning heavily on the "sexy shenanigans". But Davis felt that over time the comic grew and developed a suitable rhythm for its stories. Davis called Lagacé's artwork "simply gorgeous; her grasp of anatomy makes a comic where people are constantly taking off their clothes a natural fit."[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b Boyd, Kevin A. (2018-09-05). "The 2018 Joe Shuster Award Winners". THE JOE SHUSTER AWARDS. Retrieved 2022-07-26.
  2. ^ a b c Lauren Davis (2012-01-20). "Three's Company gets Omnisexual in Ménage à 3". Comics Alliance. Archived from the original on 2014-03-13. Retrieved 2014-03-09.
  3. ^ "2009 Nominees and Winners". THE JOE SHUSTER AWARDS. 2009-04-02. Retrieved 2022-07-26.
  4. ^ "2010 Nominees and Winners". THE JOE SHUSTER AWARDS. 2010-01-01. Retrieved 2022-07-26.
  5. ^ "Most Read Webcomics – Final Version". Archived from the original on July 19, 2012. Retrieved 2014-03-07.
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