Eros Graphic Album no. 3 Anton's Collected Drek featuring Wendy Whitebread

Donald E. Simpson is an American comic book cartoonist and freelance illustrator, most noted as the creator of the series Megaton Man, Border Worlds, and Bizarre Heroes, as well as the official comic book adaption of King Kong. He also freelanced for nearly every major comic book publisher. His most widely seen work are the illustrations he created for Al Franken's 2004 bestseller, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.

Between 1990 and 1992, Simpson created six erotic underground comix under the pseudonym "Anton Drek," including Wendy Whitebread, Undercover Slut and Forbidden Frankenstein:

In 1993, Eros Comix began to collect their “greatest hits” into a series of trade paperbacks under the moniker of “Eros Graphic Albums.” Each volume generally collects an entire original mini-series under a single cover.

In this edition:
Wendy Whitebread #1-2, Forbidden Frankenstein #1-2, Dracula's Daughter #1, and Anton's Drekbook #1. And extra artwork and cartoons. The exact content is described here: comics.org

The [Fetish] Art of Michael Manning

As an artist, his comics are often discribed as being reminiscent of classical Japanese wood block prints. The plots are thin, but that never bothered since the point is really to enjoy the erotic art. And when it comes to art, Manning delivers. His black and white figures are drawn with simple, clean, fluid lines. The fetish elements are imaginative, sexy and even beautiful. If you think you could enjoy a potent mixture of sci-fi, bondage and harcore comics, you really can't go wrong with "Tranceptor: The Way Station". Followed by "Tranceptor: Book Two: Iron Gauge, Part One". Unfortunately, as the title suggests, this is only the first part of a second book. Consequently, even though the art is up to the same standard set in the first comic, the story feels distinctly unfinished. Which is too bad since "The Way Station" hinted at a very interesting and byzantine world beyond it's desert setting. But you don't see any more of it in the follow-up. "Part One of Iron Guage" captures the main characters in a story-line lull as they recuperate from the action that took place in "The Way Station". Fans of the first book will still find it hard to resist this purchase, but people should beware. The sexuality is defintely kinky and not for the easily offended.

Black Leather Corset of Dune by Noah Berlatsky:

Porn is the genre fiction that dare not speak its name. When you think of genre, you tend to think of sci-fi, detective, horror, western, romance, or the like. Porn doesn’t make the list — instead, its set off in a box by itself, for special censure or (less often) praise. Yet, when you look closely, porn doesn’t really seem all that anomalous. Like other genre art, it’s broadly popular, has its own predictable tropes, and appeals primarily (though not exclusively) to one gender. Porn isn’t an absolute evil ruining our children, nor is it a liberating force releasing the power of our repressed sexuality. It’s just another marketing niche.

The Art of Cornnell Clarke

Browsing the internet in search for some background material I often find these little gems. Ordinary people I assume, who give their opinion on books they read and are often more entertaining then the regular reviews. Below are some of those on one of my favorite artists and his creations.

Catholic high school senior Molly runs  into a wild classmate that gets her into the hottest situations.
Nothing like spreading peanut butter on the right spots, doing it in the school bathroom, getting instructed in oral for the very first time, even getting the strict head nun at their school to lift her robe for an all-out anal blasting orgy for graduation!

Now she must confess to her sins and face how she loves being taken vigorously, even if she has become pregnant! A shockingly arousing side-story to this best-selling series.

Molly Fredrickson is a concoction of humankind's most deliciously sinful desires. With her Catholic schoolgirl outfit, cute family pet, girlish hairstyles, gentle looking suburban neighborhood and freckles like chocolate sprinkles, Molly presents an image of innocent naivety--but across these pages this raw sexual creature is anybody but.

Molly is a nymph of the highest caliber, libido and id off their leashes, a young woman who thrives on pure, sweet pleasure whenever she finds it...or whenever it finds her first. And in her carnal universe she never has to look very far, for as Molly quickly discovers her entire neighborhood is a landscape of orgy-filled insanity. In this dimension EVERYBODY'S horny and ready to go. Anywhere Molly wanders, sex in some form is bound to happen. She's not so much the kind of girl you'd bring home to meet mom as the kind mom would later jump on in the dark.

Eros Graphic Albums no. 2, 31, 47, 55 - Young Witches - Solano Lopez & Barreiro

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NAJA - Morvan & Bengal

Originally published as five albums (the standard bande dessinees format) in France by Dargaud, NAJA is making its appearance in English for the first time courtesy of Magnetic Press. Written by JD Morvan and illustrated by Bengal, NAJA tells the story of the titular woman who serves, when the story begins, as the “number three” assassin for a man named Zero.

Our story opens with Naja committing murder in France before boarding a plane for home—which in this case is Iceland—where a strange man (whom Naja only ever refers to as “He” and “Him”) ties her up. The series lurches forward, ripping through a couple hundred pages at breakneck pace. But while its plot is frenetically paced and doesn’t ever lose your attention, it grows more and more unnecessarily convoluted with each page. That’s not to say that the plot doesn’t make sense or that you’re not able to follow it. On the contrary, Morvan’s dialogue is oftentimes too expository, spelling out things that are already pretty clear with just Bengal’s art. In fact, a silent scene in which Naja (who lacks the ability to feel pain) has surgery performed on her, and clearly derives a sexual pleasure from the rarity of feeling pain (which Bengal renders with just the right amount of overtness), is ruined when the following page has a line “She had a bunch of orgasms! Four I think. Yeah, yeah, four.” Which sounds like me mocking and chiding it, but seriously? That’s almost verbatim the line.
But more importantly: there are so many moving parts for no reason at all—and the last thirty pages are just a villain going over his plan in detail so that the audience can pull back and say…”Uh…but why?” There doesn’t seem to be any reason for the twists within twists within twists that all conclude with a vague epilogue that implies some skin-crawlingly gross actions on the part of a couple characters.

Eros Graphic Album No 1. Mark Sobels Essay Conclusion

Conclusion

After deciphering the various code words, the final section of Birdland appears to be a puzzling dismissal of the major social philosophies of life.  But if science, religion and mythology are not “the answers,” then what does Gilbert propose is “the answer”?
In each of the three dreams, no matter how bizarre and extreme the sexual situations, each ultimately concludes with the two lovers – Mark and Fritz — whose relationship seemed headed toward divorce in the first section of the book, discovering each other anew.  Although their genders have been inverted, indicating how backwards everything is in the world according to Reich (see end note), destiny has intervened to bring the two together, implying that their attraction is itself fated, and that love is a far greater power than the sexual energy swirling around them.
In the final scene on the alien ship, the reunion of Mark and Fritz proves to be the revelatory moment that restores normalcy. The realization of their love sets everything right in the universe.  All of the characters are transformed back into their true genders and the alien world dissolves away as the characters find themselves returned to reality.

Similar to Fritz’s revelation at the end of the first section, Gilbert’s underlying point in this final section is that, while the characters all seem stuck in a fruitless search for “the answer” – the answers they find are all wrong.  According to Reich, sexual liberation was supposed to help them gain clarity and understanding, as well as a sense of inner peace; however, throughout Birdland, the answers they find are fleeting and incomprehensible.  Despite their actualization of Reich’s theories, they are no happier or more fulfilled than anybody else.

Eros Graphic Album No 1. Mark Sobels Essay part 3

Birdland Section Two
Following Fritz’s revelation is a confusing but brilliant section in which the reader is meant to experience a series of visions under hypnosis.  To enhance this trance-like effect, the storytelling is primarily silent and jumps randomly throughout time and space.  While fascinating on the one hand, these final 24 pages are also the most confusing and difficult in the entire book.
The second section is structured into three seemingly unrelated scenes, like a series of disjointed wet dreams, silent and surreal, profound and enigmatic.  The sustained assault of sexual content overwhelms this section, and the meaning is difficult to decipher even after multiple readings, yet once understood, the whole book coalesces into something far more satisfying than just a pornographic fantasy.

The First Dream

The first dream in this section (pages 70-77) begins with the big bang, the scientific origin of the universe, and is followed by a highly graphic scene, which includes an infamous image of dinosaur coitus as well as a series of bizarre sexual encounters with various prehistoric human characters.

Throughout this scene, cryptic words are embedded into the images, like breadcrumbs intentionally left by Gilbert for his readers to decode.  The definitions of these terms are likely unfamiliar to most readers, but their meaning within the overall story is important.

The dozen text clues in this first dream scene are all names of pre-historic dinosaurs and birds, many of which are the earliest known species on record (see end note #1 for specific definitions of each term).  There is no clear commonality between the 12 species mentioned; they come from different time periods and different parts of the world.  Yet nothing is accidental or random about this scene.

Eros Graphic Album No 1. Mark Sobels Essay part 2

Birdland Section One

Throughout the first section (which is comprised of the first 69 pages in the collected edition), there are several clues that reveal Hernandez’s intention to satire Wilhelm Reich’s philosophies. 

“Orgiastic Potency”

The most notable are the book’s many sexual scenes themselves. In Hernandez’s parody, all of the main characters (Fritz and Petra, Mark and Simon, Bang and Inez) have achieved maximum “orgiastic potency” and live ideal lives of free and open sexuality. There are no social, political or religious barriers to sexual relations in the “alternate dimension” of Birdland. Rather, the characters engage in one tryst after another, in a variety of positions and locations, often with different or multiple partners, fulfilling every sexual urge without any fear of moral, legal, social or health-related repercussions.

The pervasiveness of the pornography in Birdland may seem gratuitous, but the images are also skillfully used in service of the parody. The depiction of sex is cartoonish and hyper-exaggerated; there are cumshots on nearly every page; characters have incredible stamina; men require virtually no recovery time; the size and appearance of breasts and genitals are enhanced. In every way, the sex is garish and comical, yet conspicuously devoid of any semblance of realism.

Fritz, the lisping psychotherapist who would later become one of Hernandez’s favorite characters, also shares some telling professional habits with Wilhelm Reich. Her use of hypnotherapy during counseling sessions to lull her patients into a trance, before taking advantage of them sexually, is directly based on Reich’s similarly infamous and highly controversial violations. According to his Wikipedia entry (which cites Myron Sharaf’s 1994 book, Fury on Earth: A Biography of Wilhelm Reich as source for this information), “from 1930 onwards, Reich became more interested in his patients’ physical responses during therapy sessions, and toward the late 1930s, he began to violate several of psychoanalysis’ great taboos. He began to sit next to his patients, rather than behind them, and started touching them. He would ask his male patients to undress down to their shorts, and sometimes to undress entirely, and his female patients down to their bra and panties” (in order to break through their “armor” and release their blocked flow of orgone energy). Of course, as with everything in Birdland, Gilbert takes this notion and exaggerates it to a ridiculous extreme. Rather than the awkward groping implied in Reich’s case, Fritz’s “sexual healing” includes oral sex, intercourse and group sex, in all sorts of bizarre positions and scenarios.

 

Eros Graphic Album No 1. Mark Sobels Essay part 1

Review from Marc Sobel in 'The Comics Journal ' called:
“Birdland Reconsidered”: The roots of Gilbert Hernandez’ sex comic in Reich’s orgone energy.
 Very lengthy read but quite interesting.

“Him and his daddy used to sit inside
And circle the blue fields and grease the night.
It was as if someone had spread butter on all the fine points of the stars
cause when he looked up they started to slip.
Then he put his head in the crux of his arm
And he started to drift, drift to the belly of a ship,
Let the ship slide open, and he went inside of it
And saw his daddy hind the control board streamin’ beads of light,
He saw his daddy hind the control board,
And he was very different tonight
cause he was not human, he was not human.”
-       Patti Smith, Birdland
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Birdland may be Gilbert Hernandez’s single most misunderstood and underappreciated work.  The book is mostly known for its graphic sex, which is so pervasive, so raunchy and so outrageous, it was released as a standalone series, despite the fact that the four-part story is tangentially tied into Love & Rockets continuity (in a 2007 interview with The Daily Crosshatch website, Hernandez described Birdland as having occurred in “another dimension” so as not “to spoil the relative purity of the Palomar work”).

A brief survey of the book’s smattering of reviews confirms that most readers were too distracted by the excessive use of pornography and too unfamiliar with the book’s obscure literary and cultural references to penetrate its underlying themes.  For example, one prominent blogger concluded that Birdland is “just plain filthy” and that, for all its “mad energy,” it’s still just a “deranged pornographic fantasy.”  Yet to dismiss Birdland as merely a “semen-drenched fantasia,” as so many critics and readers have over the years, is to miss the much richer subtext of the work.

Eros Graphic Album No 1. Birdland - Gilbert Hernandez

Gilbert Hernandez‘s comics, from his work in Love and Rockets to standalone volumes like last year’s Love from the Shadows, have often included some pretty intense sexual content. But he’s only ever released one project that qualifies as full-on pornography: Birdland, a three-issue miniseries from 1990-1991 and a one-shot sequel from 1994, later collected as a single volume. Birdland has been out of print for a while, which is a pity. It’s witty, eccentric, bursting with joy, and utterly, cheerfully smutty.

As often happens in Hernandez’s stories, the basic setup is a complicated chain of frustrated and sublimated desires, although in this one everyone’s sublimating them by getting it on. The stripping team of Bang Bang and Inez (who’d previously appeared briefly in early issues of Love and Rockets) are both carrying on secret affairs with sexually inexhaustible lawyer Mark Herrera.

Every woman seems to desire Mark, except for his wife, Fritz, a psychotherapist who has sex with her patients while they’re under her hypnotic spell. Fritz’s sister Petra unrequitedly lusts after Mark, too, but she’s been carrying on a years-long affair with Mark’s brother Simon, who in turn is erotically fixated on Fritz and, specifically, her lisp, although he’s also sleeping with Inez. And so on. Eventually, the aliens who abducted Bang Bang as a child get involved, and transport the whole cast up to their ship for a pansexual orgy.

Then things get weird, or weirder. Almost the entire cast undergoes a gender reversal, and Fritz breaks the fourth wall to attempt to hypnotize the reader. That’s followed by a handful of wordless dream sequences involving versions of the cast members in X-rated prehistoric, Western and sci-fi scenarios (the first includes some hot dinosaur love) before we get to the comedy-of-remarriage denouement. And the whole thing is drawn in a style that’s the erotic equivalent of Jack Kirby’s fight scenes: grounded in the way actual bodies interact, but pumped up to an imaginative intensity way beyond anything the naked eye has ever seen. On top of that, Birdland is funny–not corny-funny or nudge/wink-funny, but absurd and sly, with a terrific sense for what can make the overfamiliar language of pornography fresh again. In one soap-operatic scene, Petra’s saying “B-but I can give you all the love you need, Mark; you’re wasting your time waiting for Fritz to come around,” and thinking “Oh, shut up and ransack my rapacious rectum with your reputedly tireless tongue, you gorgeous geek!” Dialogue in another panel: “Ah-ah-acmesthesia!” “Oh-oh-ontogeny!”

Yes, this is the kind of porn that requires a dictionary to catch everything that’s going on. A few years ago, Marc Sobel convincingly argued in a multi-part essay that Birdland is a satire of Wilhelm Reich and his theories about sexuality and “orgone energy,” by way of Patti Smith’s song “Birdland” — the story never mentions Reich outright, but the connections are everywhere — and that it’s full of other subtleties for the careful reader. (The bodily-fluid sound effects in one of the final scenes, Sobel points out, are all Spanish words relating to the story of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste.) It’s not often that a story pretends to be nothing but stroke material but is actually a bit deeper than that.

Mangerotica

EROS Comix publishes the largest roster of Japanese sex comics in the United States. They feature the work from the best MangErotica available today, from KONDOM's fantasy-oriented Bondage Fairies, to the unique teacher/student relations in NeWMaN's Secret Plot, to the adventures of Ituoshi Ihsa's brazen Slut Girl, to the outrageous, over-the-top kink of Mashumaro Juubaori's Voice of Submission, and beyond. They've worked with the original artists to undo the official censorship of the Japanese press, returning previously blurred sections of art to their original, explicit state, ensuring that the artists who publish in the States can be as filthy as they want to be - and oh, are they ever.

Slut Girl is a blast, very funny to read. Straight sex. Sayoko is not so much a slut, rather a user of people, she's always broke, but can very well stand up for herself. Poor Satoru, Sayoko's boyfriend in the series is really the one who we should pity in this series even though he gets to screw Sayoko around. Last but not least, man, Isutoshi knows how to draw!

Strange Kind of Woman. Shion is the cutest and sexiest girl in the school, but she literally never has anything to say. This doesn't stop Mamoru from asking her out, and he is elated to discover that she is actually a repressed nymphomaniac. But the fun is short-lived once his tall, slim, and stacked, but scary classmate Yuki begins stalking him for herself! By Inu

Love and Hate. Chika is beautiful, sexy, and arrogant. She wants a nice trophy boyfriend, but finds herself attracted to Keiji, the class geek and a guy she hates. She tries to resist this horrifying desire, but finally gives in. "But we're just 'classmates with benefits,'" Chika warns the smitten Keiji, and she'll never ever love him. Still, time changes all things.... By Enomoto Heights

Too Hot to Handle. From Tsukino Jyogi, one of the most popular and influential erotic manga artists in Japan, comes this twisted tale of a laid-back sadist, a fiery masochist, plus a boy and his sister. When Ayumo finds a way to blackmail Mutsumi, the icy and aloof honor student, he takes full advantage of it to treat her as his slave… but it isn't long before she's reluctantly enjoying it. And when her classmate Kenji joins in to make a threesome, he soon decides his lovely and innocent twin sister Hinako would make a perfect slave as well. Before long, all four are caught in a tangle of ropes and relationships and plenty of backdoor action.

And Many more....

Jaxtraw’s Lucy Lastique

Scientists tell us that our universe is unimaginably large, populated by an infinite number of galaxies. So, it’s almost certain that somewhere out there, you’ll find gigantic, intelligent sexual organs running around causing mischief. In the center of this oversexed mayhem, you might just encounter Lucy Lastique — flowing green hair, big bouncing breasts, and all.

Until we make a very gooey first contact, you can prepare yourself by researching Jaxtraw’s hardcore comics, which chronicle Lucy’s sexcapades to date. She’s encountered evil demons, naked warrior women, shemale priestesses, and the aforementioned telepathic genitalia. There’s also a gallery of original cartoon artwork, featuring cute women with tremendous, soft breasts playing with — and sometime sporting — purple-headed monsters of the terrestrial variety.

All in all, Jaxtraw has produced quite a lot of top-notch artwork, and his ongoing series offers the best mix of cartoon playfulness and hot, messy sex I’ve ever seen!

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Rakko

Japan has its own erotic comic history and genre. Probably even more frowned upon then in the west.

In Japan they have (mandatory) schoolclubs. Which have advisors. Here the members of the photography club are not really into it. Which leaves the advisor in a pinch for the next weeks exhibition.

Btw, she also has the sight of a bat.

Comics are read from right to left

So they come up with the idea to make a swimsuit shoot. With the advisor as a model, they at least have done something.

Only they dont expect what follows.