Howard Chaykin - CD/SD

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He is a popular American comic writer, who made his name (I think) with "American Flagg".

My impression of him is that he is a seedy unpleasant man and this crosses over into the subject matter of his comics. He likes to think of himself as some kind of liberal but in fact he's one of those sleazebags it's somehow 'right-on' to do stuff where all the women are nympho sex machines who will sell you up the river first chance they get.

DV, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This inspired by reading the latest issue of "American Century" in the shop yesterday.

DV, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

FWIW, he used to have a drop-dead gorgeous wife.

Andrew L, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

used to?

DV, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

God, this is a failed thread if ever there was one.

I remembered though, Chaykin also writes "Angel & The Ape". That's quite enjoyable in a floppy bunny kind of way.

DV, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

He also SHOCKED with his ultra-adult series, _Black Kiss_. Big fervor over it back in the day (early 90s?), with opaque bags & everything. Whoo. Never read it, but I'm guessing that's what the Vicar describes.

David Raposa, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I read a couple of issues. Not great as comic or wanksheet, really.

Tom, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Black Kiss looked pretty terrible, and the story was worse: vaguely komikal that the hero — who was a total dullard — kept finding he was having sex with men not women (kept? or was it just once?)

Under the porny surface, it was as prudish as Raymond Chandler, or a teen-slasher movie: have sex in non-mainstream way, and you die violently.

mark s, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

to mutate (and see just how much people round here will admit): have there been any sex comics that have actually worked?

jess, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Any I've tried usually fall into two categories.

Some are crap quality paper and split upon contact.

The rest are too cardy and cause bloody injury.

Ronan, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

...sigh...

jess, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

bear in mind that ronan anticipates significant injury from moving in his sleep when his duvet touches his penis

the word is delicate, and his mum should send a note

mark s, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm sorry. Continue. I just had to say it. The devil tempts me. To make crap jokes.

Ronan, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sex comics - oh, please. I flipped through an issue of Heavy Metal yesterday while browsing through the local Media Play - oh, look, buxom alien gal with gun gets nekkid and NEEDS to have sex w/ brute in order to save his life. (At least she was on top.)

Sex in comics should be limited to athletic, misproportioned folks in spandex grappling and groping.

David Raposa, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Leave my penis out of this and I'll er......leave my penis out of....comics.

IT'S JUST LIKE BOXER SHORTS OK??? EVERY GUY KNOWS. TOM SAID.

Ronan, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I thought Manara's Click! was WELL EROTIC when I was 14/15. And I couldn't even understand the words (not that you really need to). So there. And then even a few years later Crepax is quite steamy - I don't own any of his stuff so I don't know about his long- term 'potential'.

The only time I ever specifically bought a comic cause it was dirty was a copy of an awful awful sex comedy rag called One-Fisted Tales. Semen is more likely to have been spilt over George and Lynne, quite frankly.

Tom, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

manara = all his chiXor's look they've been drugged by a mad dentist. CLOSE YOUR MOUTH, DEAR.

i thought g. hernandez's birdland was fun in a light, frothy way. (dear god i didn't mean that come out like it sounded.)

jess, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)


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