1) Rebel Night at Otto's Shrunken Head. They have a myspace page, check it out.
2) Man Man
3)The film Naked Blood (more later)
4) The World Famous Bob
5) John Waters, for serious.
6) Lost Girls, by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie
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Although these posts are no longer confessions (apparently), I must make a confession.
I actually bought LOST GIRLS, my present to myself before Christmas.
But...
I can't get past the drawings yet.
I read the first chapter and it did nothing for me.
And I like Alan Moore, so I have to give it another whack.
But usually my first attraction to comics is the artwork, and so far, the art isn't doing it for me.
My favorite local comic book pusher, Atomic Don, has been berating me for not reading this thing ever since I bought it, and I said, I will, I will. (And I will, I will!)
But, truth be told, visually, I'm actually more turned on by this goofy manga called BATTLE VIXENS (which features a very buxom young woman in a very short skirt and an embarrassing amount of up the panties shots, plus martial arts fights, which results in her clothes invariably exploding off her), which I've been furtively reading (MY shameful reading!).
I'm not even going to compare the two books.
I just... I dunno.
I ain't ready yet.
Lost Girls is nothing special, at least as far as wank material goes - though I'd be curious what a dyke thinks of it. I didn't bother to read the thing either.
Nobody does panties better than the Japanese.
And John Waters is a hero.
The rest I don't know, Lilla, so I'll take a look.
And thanks for smiling.
I haven't read it all yet either(Lost Girls), I think what interests me most about it is the perversity of the project to begin with, and the idea of Alan Moore, who looks like a serial rapist, creating this thing with a woman he is in a committed relationship with. I am occasionally infatuated with an author's state of mind, or my perception of their intention, more than with the work itself. (makes me think of your article, reese) This is how I got into Mishima, I originally started hunting for 'The Rite of Love and Death' in which he enacts his own dramatic suicide, which he then carried out to the letter 4 years later. Then it turned out he was also a brilliant novelist, who in 'The Sea of Fertility' manages to transcend even the power of his own madness to create something beautiful, not despite himself but because of himself.
In terms of hot goofy manga, gunsmith cats, anyone? I love that shit.
Alright, I read Lost Girls in it's entirety last night, and I stand by my statement. It's hot, and although I agree that the artwork isn't immediately engrossing, it's hot for another reason: it evokes a particular time period, and at various moments it evokes our childhood experience of reading the stories it is extrapolating on, which is the heart of the project. Instead of being about pedophilia, it's about the cognitive salience of early sexual experience, the way we remember and experienced everything so strongly in our formative years, and about bringing that back to our sexuality. It's also about crossing lines, although it's too self aware, and a bit self-indulgently freudian. Anyay, it's hot, I stand by it.
I definitely have to read LOST GIRLS. Hell, I spent $70 on it!
But, I was just pointing out that I actually find myself, by comparison, more attracted to girls drawn in BATTLE VIXENS than in Gebbie's artwork, which Atomic Don took pains to point out to me that the latter's work improved considerably since the first single issues of LOST GIRLS when it first saw print. Plus, Gebbie re-drew some pages as well.
But I pointed this out in my first comment because that was a strange but honest realization that dawned on me.
I'm mostly interested in reading it because I trust Alan Moore as a writer.
Having said that, if I'm more overtly looking for comic book porn, I have to admit a preference for Serpieri's DRUUNA or Solano Lopez/Barreiro's YOUNG WITCHES.
And I've been meaning to check out GUNSMITH CATS! Some day, some day...
I got the overall feeling throughout reading lost girls that it was more aimed at a female audience...perhaps for the reasons I touch on in my masturbation post on my other blog. Visually, it's not neccesarily a turn on, although certain images are pretty hot (particularly from the Alice stories, ith a certain air of voyeurism) but the stories are hot, the parallel experiences of the story itself and the actions of the characters are hot, the ideas are hot. It's not the artwork itself that is hot and engaging, it's the layers that it adds to the work as a whole. By having the story set in a particular time period, and emphasizing that by drawing in a style that evokes that time period, a whole metaphor for loss of inocence, for violent change is established. By referencing the illustration styles of the children's books, well I already talked about that. The meat of the porn is in the text, in the narratives, the images add layers.
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