SEX IN THE COMIX - documentary

Documentary directed by Joëlle Oosterlinck with Molly Crabapple.

First movie dedicated to erotic comics. Milo Manara, Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky, ZEP, Ralf König, Bastien Vivès, Aude Picault, Tim Pilcher and Bernard Joubert tell us what they think about this art, and how they came into it.
A history told by Molly Crabapple with an interesting graphic work around erotic art.

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SECRET IDENTITY: The Fetish Art of Superman`s Co-creator Joe Shuster

Title: SECRET IDENTITY:
The Fetish Art of Superman`s Co-creator Joe Shuster
Author: Craig Yoe, with an introduction by Stan Lee
Artwork: Joe Shuster
Published: Abrams Comic Arts, New York (2009)

It is a well-known fact in the comic world that the original artist and co-creator of Superman died having earned only pennies on the dollar for his contribution to the world`s most famous superhero—the rights to the character were won by D.C. Comics in the 1940s.

So what to make of this work in later years? He never signed his name to it, but the Nights of Horror illustrations that depicted lusty ladies, titillating torture, and all manner of mild S&M scenarios were in fact Shuster. What`s more?! The characters of these filthy booklets all look, at great deal, like one Clark Kent and Lois Lane… Find out more in this curious twist in the history of comics and erotic art.

from SEX: A Graphic History by Nicole Marie Guiniling (AD ASTRA COMIX)

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A Memorial to Art Wetherell

I'm handing over Father's Day(column on comicsworld website) to my old friend Tim Perkins this month, so that he might share some memories of British comic book artist Art Wetherell. Back in the dim and distant days when I was an editor at Marvel UK, Art sent me samples of his work and I hired him to pencil strips for THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS, DEATH'S HEAD and DOCTOR WHO. He was talented, always cheerful and willing to learn (and teach) and never missed a deadline. When I left Marvel UK for the states he sent me a wonderful illustration with the legend "Starkings Quits, Will Things Fall Apart?" I remember how happy I was to see his work in JABBA THE HUTT a few years ago but had not spoken to him in fifteen years when I learned he had passed away suddenly before this past New Year's. It came as quite a shock, as I always imagined that I would run into him at a convention one day and we would catch up with one another. Art was about my age, still working hard and, of course, he was a father too...

— Richard Starkings

 Thanks once again Richard for affording me the opportunity to say a few words about British Comic Artist, Art Wetherell, who sadly passed away on Christmas day last year.

I first heard of Art back in the early-mid-eighties back on Martin Lock's Harrier Comics. At the time most of the Harrier Gang (creatives such as Kev Hopgood, Steve Yeowell, Jeff Anderson, Mike Collins, Mark Farmer, James Hill, Art Wetherell and myself) little suspected that we would soon become a big part of Marvel UK's next big push into publishing its own titles. This, following the success of Alan Davis' lovely work on Captain Britain and John Ridgway's classical renderings of Doctor Who, the guys that paved the way for us to enter mainstream comics. 

Eros Graphic Album no. 4 - 2 Hot Girls on a Hot Summer Night - Hooper and Wetherell

                                     

This graphic novel is the work of two Englishmen, Art Wetherell and Terry Hooper. The late Art Wetherell was assigned by Dark Horse in the USA to illustrate 'Jabba the Hutt' and other 'Star Wars' titles, which was followed by work for Caliber (a.o. 'Negative Burn', 'The Searchers'). He was also one of the first artists published by Fantagraphics as part of its 'Eros Comix' line, creating such titles as '2 Hot Girls on a Hot Summer Night' and 'Treasure Chests'.
Art Wetherell began his career drawing for Harrier Comics in the early 1980s. He then moved over to Marvel UK to pencil titles like 'The Real Ghostbusters', 'Death's Head', 'Transformers', 'Thundercats' and 'Doctor Who'. In the 1990s he started producing work for 2000 AD. Wetherell has worked on licensed comics 'Power Rangers', as well as fairytale stories such as 'Sleeping Beauty' for the children's comic Blue Moon. He passed away on Christmas Day 2003.

Hooper is a distinguished figure on the UK comics scene, working as a writer, artist, editor & publisher since the 80's and currently behind the ComicBitsOnline site.

In the early nineties, Eros Comix brought them together to create this, volume four in the illustrious and lengthy Eros Graphic Novel series. This volume collects the entire delightful time-hopping series chronicling the naughty rompings of two monumentally stacked English girls, horny honeys M and JC, as they satisfy one another in a Sapphic frenzy through the ages! United by a lascivious love of female flesh, they put their fingers and tongues, a cucumber, ice cubes, a night stick, a religious icon and more to good and gooey uses! "What sort of uses?" you might ask. Seeing is believing!

Billy & Mandy ©Wagner

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