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The Evolution Of Sex In Comics
BY SHEA HENNUM (JUNE 1, 2016)
Erotic comics have always been there—like a sexy omnipresent specter traversing the space-time continuum.
They exist in a long, rich tradition of erotic and eroticized art, from ancient cave paintings—like a French vulva
hailing from 37,000 years ago—to explicit sculptures, pottery, papyrus, daguerreotypes, word carvings,
drawings, you name it. Nearly every culture on earth has produced work that, while not necessarily pornographic,
revels in sex and sexuality; such pieces are part and parcel of our self-expression.
‘The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife 1814’ is a classic of Japanese erotic art, known as shunga. (1814)
Some erotic art has even been instrumental in the development of the medium to which it belongs: Eadweard Muybridge, pioneer of photography and film,
took countless photographs of nude men and women, and Le Coucher de la Mariée, or Bedtime for the Bride,
is not just one of the oldest pornographic films—it’s one of the oldest surviving films, period.
“Explicit art is part and parcel of our self-expression.”
Comics have also been fundamental to sexual expression, with a long and significant history (there’s some debate as
to whether erotic comics began with The Yellow Kid, The Adventures of Obidiah Oldbuck, or the Bayeux Tapestry).
The problem? In America, comics have largely been seen as a juvenile art form; the name itself, “comic,”
as in “comical,” reveals our “that’s for cheap childish laughs” societal attitude. As a result,
pornographic, erotic, and even simply sexually suggestive comics were kept underground and out of sight—until recently.
With the advent of the internet and the comics industry’s many attempts at breaking the stigma of juvenalia—including
the publication of Watchmen, Maus, Fun Home, and Persepolis—erotic or eroticized comics
are becoming more accessible and acceptable. In fact, many cartoonists are turning to
them to explore new artistic ground.
“Women are creating erotic, educational, experimental, and sublime art.”
But what is most interesting about this new wave of eroticized comics is that, more and more,
women are the ones producing them. With their educational, experimental, and sublime art,
women are rendering their own interests, and their own fantasies and ideas about sex, sexuality,
and sensuality—revolutionizing the historically male-dominated field of erotic comics in the process.
In the beginning there were Tijuana bibles. Taking their name from the Mexican city they were believed
to have originated from, these small pamphlets were wildly popular in the 1930s, though they were still floating around into the 1960s.
Often parodies of then-contemporary comic strips like Dick Tracy or the Popeye-starring Thimble Theatre,
these small comics featured crudely printed figures engaging in all manner of explicit sex, typically accompanied by a humorous tone.
One such pamphlet features Donald Duck happening upon Mickey and Minnie Mouse (and just as she’s about to “go boom-boom” too),
but that’s just pretense for the stork-like Donald to “put a duck egg” in Minnie. Like other pornographic material of its day,
owning these pamphlets was prohibited, and even distribution of them was illegal.
An August 6, 1955 story from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “Senate Probes Filth Ring,” concerns the raid of a porno stash.
One George Martin is quoted in the article as saying “sexual perversion among juveniles” is on the rise,
which begins to get at the real moral reasoning behind the proscription of pornography and America’s fraught history with smut.
A classic ‘Tijuana bible’ featuring the Queen of Snow White
In fact, even as late as the 1950s, the industry was self-censoring itself using the Code
Of The Comics Magazine Association Of America, which prohibited obscenity of any kind and
made sex—suggestive or explicit—strictly off limits:
“The comic-book medium, having come of age on the American cultural scene,
must measure up to its responsibilities.Constantly improving techniques and higher standards go hand in hand
with these responsibilities. To make a positive contribution to contemporary life,
the industry must seek new areas for developing sound, wholesome entertainment.
The people responsible for writing, drawing, printing, publishing, and selling comic books have done a commendable job
in the past, and have been striving toward this goal.”
In the 1960s, sexual mores dramatically evolved, and the advent of underground comics were part of
this seismic shift, fundamentally changing how sex in comics was rendered. Continuing the tradition of the Tijuana bibles,
cartoonists like Robert Crumb blended the humorous and the sexual with characters like Fritz the Cat.
‘Zap’ by R. Crumb
Instead of parodying other works, however, Crumb was interested in creating new and
original characters accompanied by the same depravity and lasciviousness of his forebears. Crumb and
his contemporaries, like Spain Rodriguez, Gilbert Shelton, and S. Clay Wilson, managed to
elevate erotic comics—despite their ostensibly too-racy-for-American-eyes content—out of the back alleys,
and made them exponentially more available, and appreciated as something other than a hush-hush
novelty with little to no artistic merit.
While this phenomenon is a noticeable development in comics’ erotic history, things like anthropomorphized animals
and the inclusion of humor were expected holdovers. But even in this slightly more liberal atmosphere,
the comics industry was still repressed and self-referentially maligned.
Jokingly emblazoned with the disclaimer “Fair Warning: For Adult Intellectuals Only,”
the landmark Zap Comix, the magazine that Crumb made famous and vice-versa,
continued to walk the line between the prurient and the mature.
It acknowledged this imagined boundary, and it reveled in the ephemeral quality of the medium and its
perception as juvenalia. The first issue was sold out of a baby carriage on a street corner,
and it’s obvious why the series was referred to as “underground”.
Sold largely in head shops, the series had limited distribution, but it was a definite step
above the under-the-counter anonymity of its predecessors, and,
for better or worse, it had the influence of The Velvet Underground & Nico.
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“I remember thinking, ‘I’m going to hell for reading [Zap],’” Gilbert Hernandez told The New York Times in 2014.
Hernandez and his brother Jaime would go on to launch their series Love & Rockets,
the title that helped inaugurate the 1980s paradigm-shifting wave of alternative comics.
This series forced an earnest reconsideration of what comics were, and the industrial
shift it began forever altered the perception that comics could only be for children.
But even Love & Rockets never hit the sexual heights of the Tijuana bibles,
or even some of the Zap Comix.
Gilbert Hernandez told me, “The sex in [Love & Rockets] has to be pretty much edited so as not
to offend most readers,” and that he feels he has to “reign in characters admitting to liking sex in regular comics.”
But what exactly are “regular comics”? Since the medium’s earliest days, there has been an arbitrary distinction between “erotic” comics
and “regular” comics, and like Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart—who famously said in
regards to “hard-core” pornography in 1964, “I know it when I see it”—we kind of knew the difference . . . when we saw it.
“What exactly are 'regular comics'?”
But in other cultures, the distinction isn’t as clear. Ryan Sands, publisher of the erotic comics
anthology
Thickness, told me that “in other comics traditions—manga primarily,
even among shonen [for young boys] action stories or seinen [for young adult men] rom-coms like Dance till
Tomorrow—some romance and sexual content does not automatically relegate a story to being ‘Adult Material.’”
Gilbert Hernandez’s “Garden of Flesh” an erotic depiction of the Bible.
And this distinction is becoming increasingly blurred. Ramping up the playful détournement of the Tijuana bible and convention
busting of the ‘60s comix, the past few years have seen an incredible wave of sex comics that are challenging the genre
conventions of the medium—and enabling a new cadre of artists to create them.
The Tijuana Bibles of the early 20th century were produced in secret by anonymous or unknown authors,
but they reflected—and how!—the common patriarchal objectification of their time. Women were treated
similarly in the underground comix of the 1960s, which were mostly produced by straight men,
and, as journalist and lecturer Paula Kamen writes, “[t]he sexual revolution of the 1960s [ . . . ] was a boon for many men,
who now had access to more women’s bodies and made the rules about what exactly took place in bed.”
Video - The ‘Smut Peddler Double Header’ — Kickstarter
http://www.theestablishment.co/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/smut_doublepeddler.mp4?_=1
Sex was everywhere, but it was a patriarchal sex; women were still treated and drawn like objects.
But in recent years, women have become the authors—and their innovative, creative, and diverse depictions of sex are
moving the medium in inspiring new directions.
“Sex was everywhere, but it was a patriarchal sex.”
“I love seeing how people react,” says Katie Skelly, My Pretty Vampire cartoonist and author
of the Agent series, hinting at the provocative nature of her comics, which have helped to usher in this new era
for the genre.
‘Comic Striptease: Agent Ten,’ by Katie Skelly
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Some cartoonists, like the celebrated Chester Brown in Paying For It, are de-eroticizing sex—presenting
it matter-of-factly as part of a high-minded and serious work. But for Spike Trotman,
it’s more about proudly and publicly reveling in the relatability to and desirability of erotic or
sexually explicit art. The artist recently raked in nearly $162,000— $121,000
more than they set out to raise on Kickstarter.
‘Oh Joy, Sex Toy’ by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan
Other influential figures include Oh Joy, Sex Toy’s Erika Moen,
who reviews sex toys in sometimes explicit, sometimes self-deprecating comics.
For Skelly, it’s simply about producing work that synthesizes pornography and “regular” comics,
creating something that eschews arbitrary and useless distinctions. “The barrier is folding,” Skelly
told me, “and I’m way less concerned about blending the carnal in with the cerebral.
Flesh is like a whole new medium.”
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Posted - 21/09/2016 : 08:56:31
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Peter Kuschel
Judith schneidet Holofernes lustvoll lächelnd den Hals durch. Ein Werk, das polarisiert. |
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Posted - 24/09/2016 : 21:07:42
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Sex In Italy 1 / Luca Tarlazzi
Vol. 1
Softcover / 48 pages
Vol. 2
Softcover / 48 pages
Vol. 3 & 4
Tarlazzi Luca is an Italian designer with diverse interests including the tattoo.
Marco and Serena are a couple and open the script and the Tarlazzi pencil linger on the beautiful blonde.
And Serena is the blonde as we imagine the volcanic woman, one who, in a wink, a touch,
a simple situation turns into a total bitch.
One thinks of the joy of his companion Marco, much flatter, just queutard unlikely to cut.
So keep coming for exhibition scenes, free and uninhibited sex, threesomes, etc.
It's blackjack, Serena is open, anyone can enter. And she asks for more, naughty.
Regarding the design, there is an indescribable something that reminds Liberatore (Ranx), surely the colors.
Some box with Serena are powerful enough, his poses are more than suggestive. Any reader will keep in mind,
especially since his anatomy we fully unveiled shamelessly.
You have to take "Sex In Italy" for what it is, a good recreation, almost mindless with the playback side
with one hand. For more brain stimulation, we will go elsewhere.
- Your ointment is effective, but as soon as ca bugger me again. In your opinion, am I too small?
Sample (V1 V2 V3)
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Info: Luca Tarlazzi
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca_Tarlazzi
Home:
http://www.lucatarlazzi.com/default.asp |
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Posted - 26/09/2016 : 09:16:28
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By EDOUARD CHIMOT
Edouard Chimot (November 26, 1880 - June 7 1959) was a French artist, illustrator and editor whose career peaked in the 1920s in Paris,
through the publication of fine quality art printed books. As an artist takes his own work a characteristic square, but as an editor and his role was very
important in some of the outstanding talents of this unique period in French art and providing the committees
on which occurred the merging of the development of their work in a formal framework. |
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Posted - 27/09/2016 : 09:14:48
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Ludivine - L'histoire sans dessous... dessous !
Publisher: Glénat
Text: Erroc / Rodrigue M.
Drawing: Dany
Content: Ludivine, young, blonde and attractive, wrote his thesis on the influence of gender on the course of history. But through the screen of his computer,
she finds herself mysteriously projected into the past, specifically to meet the events and people she is studying!
From prehistory to the assassination of Julius Caesar, through the Hundred Years War or the fall of the Bastille,
ludivine will discover that it is often she who, by her charms, will cause great changes ...
Stayed in this, his friend Jean-Baptiste he will reach the fry?
Cover:
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Posted - 28/09/2016 : 18:11:33
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Platinum - Lethal Strike Annual
Jacklyn "Stryke" Mitchell is hired to recover an ancient mystical sword from a temple on an island off the coast of Japan. Shortly after arriving she finds the job
is not as straight forward as she and her partner were led to believe.
Creators
Leonard Kirk, Rick Lyon & Terry Pallot
(Elena Quartermain)
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Posted - 30/09/2016 : 10:48:56
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DIE FEUER VON ASKELL (Les feux d'Askell)
Publischer: Soleil Productions (1993/95) / Splitter V. (1994/95) & Carlsen V. (2002/03) Germany
Scenario: Scotch Arleston
Design: Jean-Louis Mourier
Format: Album (22.0 x 29.5 cm) - Multicolored
Genre: Fantasy
Country: France / Belgium
Content: An endless sea, the islands always are built then disappear civilizations: Askell. Here boats plying thousand kinds primal ocean, despite the monsters that every moment can
pop up the waves and crush the shells. Merchants and smugglers arrive in each port, precious cargoes came from more distant archipelagos. It's on a small ship-theater that chance
met Cybil, the voluptuous erotic dancer, Dao Xi'an, the mercenary, Brumaire the knife thrower, Keresquin the Poet and Tittle , for a series of 'fantasy adventure where action,
charm and humor are served by the sumptuous graphics Jean-Louis Mourier.
Wiki:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Feux_d%27Askell
Vol. 1 - L'onguent admirable
HC / 44 pages
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Vol. 2 - Retour à Vocable
HC / 44 pages
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Vol. 3 - Corail sanglant
HC / 44 pages
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INT. Les feux d'askell 1-2-3
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DIE FEUER VON ASKELL - Sonderausgabe -Nr-1+2-HC / Limitiert 250 Exemp. - Splitter V.
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Posted - 01/10/2016 : 20:48:50
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Capcom Figure Builder Morrigan Aensland (Nurse Ver.) @ Tokyo Toy Show 2016.
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