By D. Scot Miller
EROTIC COMICS 2: A GRAPHIC HISTORY FROM THE LIBERATED ’70S TO THE INTERNET
Tim Pilcher
(Abrams ComicArts)
The lord works in mysterious ways.
My impassioned plea to the publishers of Best Erotic Comics 2009 to please expand their tasty tome inspired something in the ether, and my request for a bigger erotic comic collection as come to me in the form of Erotic Comics 2: A Graphic History from the Liberated ’70s to the Internet.
Tim Pilcher, author of Erotic Comics: A Graphic History from Tijuana Bibles to Underground Comix has pulled together a comprehensive and illuminating retrospective on the genre, its relevance, and how it has both mirrored and transformed our sexuality.
Barry Blair’s hot ambi-nymphs
From the pre-code days of Wally Wood’s Weird Sex Fantasy and the tantalizing soft-core of the early days of Heavy Metal Magazine, Pilcher brings both sub-genres and individual artists into focus, creating a time-line that not only examines the art, but the supporters and detractors of pornography, free-speech, and free-love.
Alan Moore — the genius behind Watchmen, V is for Vendetta, and (along with partner Melinda Gebbie) the $75 slip-covered piece of indulgent psycho-sexual sensuousness that is The Lost Girls — writes a pro-porn polemic worthy of The New Yorker (or this fine blog) that catapults us into high-weirdness and beyond.
Moore and Gebbie’s Blake-meets-Darger sextravaganza, The Lost Girls
Like many of you out there, for the longest time I thought adult comics were reserved for 40-year-old virgins.