"I once took part in an orgy like the ones I draw," says French-Canadian illustrator Patrick Fillion, whose Class Comics has been delivering rock-hard cock and ripped physiques to Superhero fans for the last three years. "But I decided I was more into the 1-on-1 stuff than the 1-on-5." (read the full article)
Pierre & Gilles have been a source of luridly-colored homoerotic joy ever since they first met at a party in Paris — Pierre, a magazine photographer; Gilles a middle-school art teacher — and became partners in art (as well as lovers), celebrating pop-mythology at its most homosexual and kitsch.
They have been out there since 1976, becoming so wildly fashionable that everyone hip passing through Paris — from Catherine Deneuve to Boy George to Jeff Stryker — sat in some stage of undress for their portraits. Not straight-forward portraits, you understand, but ones touched by whimsy and — dare we say it? – fairy dust. Deneuve, for starters, was re-imagined as a fairytale princess, Boy George as the Indian god Shiva playing a flute, and Jeff Stryker as a shirtless devil in sequined gold horns and sequined gold pants. (read the full article)
NEW FICTION! NEW JOSMAN! Once again Josman blows us away! When it comes to the fantasy life of gay men, there are not many illustrators who can stand next to Tom of Finland and not shudder in the long shadow of Tom’s impact. But Josman, whose work regularly appears on our pages, stands shoulder to shoulder with the master. You can spot a Josman instantly. The lyricism of his voluptuous line, the heart-stopping impact of his comic-book framing takes the work way beyond the erotic to something hyper-real and visionary.
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Feet, the illustrator Palanca admits, were not always part of his beat-off art.
For 10 years he was more interested in "giant dicks, giant balls and bald, hairy-monkey men." Then in 1995, barefeet, usually with their soles up and right in the viewer’s face, began swelling to sizes that overwhelmed even his humongous fantasy cocks.
"I became very conscious of how delicious it was to imagine a shirtless man in long, black pants, walking barefoot with exaggerated foot arches. To censor the legs with long pants was just to spotlight those feet. In my drawings, foot arches became a roller-coaster of lines" (read the full article)
