'It's A Sin' primary source material

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Russell T Davies is a fan of artist Oliver Frey, so am I. Oliver drew a comic series called 'The Street' in the early eighties, RTD used this strip as inspiration for the early stages of his hit tv show 'It's A Sin'
Gay comics are usualy fantasy, this one is a harshly realistic story of the perils of moving to the big bad city in the hope of starting a new life. The tv show did not go as far as the comic with it's hallucinogenics and self harm, that might be pushing it too far for a mainstream audience, but I hope you can see how the cartoonists ability to cram a lot of ideas into a small space has helped the tv writer to do the same thing, he had a lot of ground to cover in only a few episodes.
The toon was published over nine months in the gay advertorial mag 'Him' Here is part one.



Part two coming soon.

 

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Next part coming soon.

 

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More coming soon.

 

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Part five tomorrow.

 

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Part six coming soon.

 

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Don't touch that dial, there's more on it's way.

 

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Don't try this at home, kids.

 

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Not long to go now.

 

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The End

At this point Him magazine has a change of management and the toon is cancelled. We will never know what happened to Gareth, let's hope he eventualy lived happily ever after.