Filthy European* Art Comix

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*NB all arty porno comics are in essence European even if they do not come from Europe. So no quibbling.

Manara - mmmm, superb linework

Crepax - oh, the exquisite page composition

Corben - such freedom of imagination

Serpieri - HOLY GOD LOOK AT THOSE -

ahem.

Anyway, s/d?

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, _Heavy Metal_, how I (do not) miss you (maybe). That Little Nemo homage / ripoff / salacious romp was fine fare, though - I forget the artist, but I sho do remember them stories hoo wee! Of course, instead of involving a boy, they involved a girl of indeterminate age (I assume she was legal!) encountering strange predicaments in her dreams WITH SEXY RESULTS! And then she'd wake up all disheveled and "oh my gosh!", which was so dahling.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

If only we had not scared Tuomas off, this might be his time to shine.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Ahhhh, if only real life were more like European art comix - it sure would help pass the time (EUPHEMISM ALERT!) if I inadvertently saw a Manaraesque woman writing on the steps of my office building in the throes of uncontrollable passion.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Writing with throbbing pens?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Manara... Pssht... Any nice "arty porno" comics for girls?

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Yeah, I thought not.

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Roberta Gregory?

― Vic Fluro, Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Apparently From Hell has a high penis quotient.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, but jocelyn said they were, kind of, squidgy penises. At least, that's how I remember it.

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you making fun by saying "Roberta Gregory"? I just read two panels of BITCH BITCHY BITCH BITCHING and I want to crack someone over the head with a beer bottle. Doesn't look sexy to me, man.

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Um...Conan?

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

You said 'arty porno' and arty it certainly is.

― Vic Fluro, Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know if it counts as arty, but I don't know any guys (including me) (and the artist) who read Omaha the Cat Dancer unless a girl introduced them to it.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

From Hell does have quite a fair bit of sex, due to the subject matter more than trying to be titillating. (I don't think I've ever written that word before)Manga hentaii it's not.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Kinda off-topic, but thinking about manga hentaii, I think it's interesting that much of the guy/guy manga is aimed at a teenage girl audience, and they seem to be very entranced by it.(at least the people I knew who used to read it)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not at all sure about in Japan, but in the US -- which could at least affect what gets imported -- porn-with-words-in-it is by default aimed at a female readership. Maybe it's because making male/male porn female-friendly gives you a larger audience, maybe it's because men don't really buy books; I don't know.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

(But VG, if you head a little south to Northampton, porn comics by-girls-for-girls quickly become the default, believe me.)

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Where is this "Northampton" you speak of?

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Thursday, 9 September 2004 11:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Northampton, Mass -- where lesbians (not just at Smith College) and comics (current or former home of Kitchen Sink, Tundra, and the Words and Pictures Museum) collide! It's the San Francisco of the frosty north.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 9 September 2004 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Words & Pictures Museum shut down thar, Tep.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 9 September 2004 12:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I know, that's why I said current or former -- I have no idea what's there any more, I haven't lived there in 8 years. But I'm confident they still have their share of comics and lesbians.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 9 September 2004 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, yes - missed the "former" bit of your statement. Yes, I'm sure they still have plenty of comics up there. Lesbians, though, I dunno. Cough.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 9 September 2004 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't make me sing the Smith fight song!

(I don't think there's a Smith fight song. Unless it's for pillow fights that get awkward and naked.)

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 9 September 2004 12:27 (twenty-one years ago)

End scene. Roll credits. Drink nutmeggy chai.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 9 September 2004 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

So are these comics by-girls-for-girls-about-girls? Just wondering.

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Thursday, 9 September 2004 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I defer to the crunchy gentleman formerly of NoHo.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 9 September 2004 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

About girls, about guys ... believe me, porn comics aren't exclusively (or even predominantly, I would reckon) male-audience-oriented. The easiest ones to find might be, I don't know -- that'd depend on where you live (which is why they'd be so prevalent in Northampton).

Wait, I'm not crunchy, dammit!

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 9 September 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Never mind that, man, we've got to get this thread back on track & talk more about sci-fi boobies!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 9 September 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Speaking of which, I was just wondering the other day what the Barbarella comic had been like, cause I'd forgotten it was based on a comic. A European comic, at that! But I have no idea if it was filthy.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 9 September 2004 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

She shagged a robot and got them out but judging by what little I've seen it was no filthier than Astra or George & Lynne.

Which reminds me - George & Lynne. Does that count? It should.

― Vic Fluro, Thursday, 9 September 2004 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

So like I said, I haven't read any of these, but I read the most recent Powers trade last night and a sex therapist on a tv show was named "Sally Manara", or something.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 September 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

The most blatant use of boobies in a series I read is in Boneyard. That aqua chick with the starfish over her niptaculars.

I know some people that may look down on Boneyard, but I really enjoy it... Although it is a guilty pleasure.

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Thursday, 9 September 2004 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh lord another Heavy Metal flashback - there were these stories featuring this buxom voluptuous raven-haired woman (like a cross between Monica Belluci, Catherine Zeta-Jones, & Anna Nicole Smith) cavorting across the universe. She always seemed to end up in legwarmers & nothing else. She bent over a lot. And she always seemed to end up getting the business from just about everything - shape-changing scientists, rock-hard statues, butch space travelers, old gnomish creatures, etc etc etc. Of course, given I was "reading" these stories in _Heavy Metal_, all of the naughty bits were removed or redacted, which meant that a 96 page graphic novel got hacked down to 50ish pages, maybe? What was worse, though, was that the PLOT was excised in addition to all the lascivious interspecies cavorting, so I missed out on EVERYTHING!

So, yeah, full cavity search on that if it's your cup o' tea.

Are there examples of translated versions of these GNs that aren't woefully lacking a certain fictional verisimilitude?

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 9 September 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

a certain fictional verisimilitude

Is that what they're calling it these days?

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Friday, 10 September 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Your search - sci-fi boobies - did not match any documents.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Friday, 10 September 2004 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG that long labored description I did two posts ago was about Serpieri's Druuna! Tom's HOLY GOD is quite justified.

― David R. (popshots75`), Saturday, 11 September 2004 02:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Dan's a liar:

http://www.thefourthrail.com/features/0102/fightinwords9.shtml

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Saturday, 11 September 2004 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, but try an image search.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Saturday, 11 September 2004 13:03 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Not European, not work safe:

http://www.aloha.com/~darkwatr/msxcom2d.jpg

P.S. I was coerced into ressurecting this thread by Tom. I am not by nature a salacious person. Just ask my neighbours, they'll tell you I'm the quiet type.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 11 October 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha - my work place pre-emptively saved me from viewing non-work-safe material! Thank you, Big Bros!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 11 October 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Disturbingly, the image I posted was on the first page of results for 'art comix.' The internet doesn't seem to think very highly of the medium...

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 11 October 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I really like Crepax and Manara a lot - I think they're great artists, but I wish their material were more interesting. Manara draws the loveliest female arses ever.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 08:47 (twenty-one years ago)

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