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For the Birds.

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I assume it's not exactly your thing but do you know any good artists who draw non straight porn? gay porn?

Oh sure. 

Also here’s a link to a list I made of some of my favorite porn comic artists

Hamlet Machine’s Starfighter is AMAZING. sci fi gay comics with lots of sex scenes. 

THE MASSIVE, is a really great gay porn manga anthology that Fantagraphics printed in English. my favorite stuff in it is by Tagame & Jiraiya

The Jiraiya story is about a caveman who rides a bear who doesn’t understand why he can’t have a baby, but only wants to have sex with dudes.

There’s ONTA’s whole hardblush crew, he draws really feminine furry dudes (and was in the ISLAND anthology I edit with Emma Rios)

Michael Vega AKA Miu does really good furry stuff too. (& draws both gay , straight and lady-gay comics)  And Daria McGrain too  

NERO O'REILLY does some great furry stuff too.

MAKA MAKA is a reallly sweet lesbian manga by kishi torajiro (here)  (I just assumed you meant gay dudes – but maybe this works too) 

And Zasha did a sexy lady cop comic.

tanuma yuuichirou draws all over the map. he does some nice chubby dude porn. 

Also GET YOUR MAN is a fun Canadian Mountie web comic (here) 

There’s APPOLO POP (here) 

I’m probably leaving out a million, but hopefully there’s some in there you haven’t seen. 

Hey Brandon, where would you recommend starting if I want to get into Manara? Dark Horse just solicited a new paperback of his book Indian Summer and I'm wondering if I should check it out.

I wouldn’t start with Indian summer, it’s a great one, with some of his best art but also kind of harsh with all the incest and sexual violence in it.

I’d start with his 

Bergman books. There’s 5 of them and the first 4 are great. 
The Great Adventure, 
An Author in Search of Six Characters , 
Dies Irae , and 
Perchance to Dream (my favorite) 

Bergman is a young man (I always took him to be a young Manara) who is chosen for a great adventure with HP (cartoonist Hugo Pratt of Corto Maltese fame) as his guide. 

In the Bergman books, Manara really plays with storytelling and what is possible in comics. I feel it’s work aiming at being placed among the Italian greats, Like Felini and Pratt. It’s amazing work.

After that I think going into his book he did with Felini! TRIP TO TULUM

It feels like Manara working through his love of Felini (an obvious HUGE influence on his– by working with the man) you can tell how much he wants to impress Felini with his beautiful pages (and Moebius and Jordo even make a cameo) 

he did a great story called The paper man, about a guy meeting a native American woman while traveling to meet a woman whose photo he carries with him.

That and The Ape (his take on the Chinese Monkey king) are both great.(
The Snowman is also from this era but I haven’t read it yet)

OK, I THINK WE’RE READY FOR THE PORN NOW!

I feel like with Manara’s adult work it helps to know the man through his work first, to know how good he is and can be and ideally be charmed by him.

So Butterscotch is my favorite of his adult work, it’s the simple story of a lady named Honey (who aside from Bergman is manara’s best character IMO)  who discovers a man who has created a ointment that can turn him invisible. 

Also in the story Honey wears a Corto hat, another nod to Pratt (Paul Pope brought in the same hat in his One trick rip off) 

There’s a Butterscotch 2, but it’s really not as good. I would suggest that his Hidden camera book is a better BS2 as it follows Honey more (where BS 2 has some rando no one cares about) Also his SHORTS book (of other short stories is really good)

Another of his best adult books is the CLICK series, Click goes off the rails a bit. (it’s about a magic box that turns women on) In one of the later books Manara even brings in a character based off of Angelina Jollllle – who has a brother that she keeps getting into weird sex stuff with (because that was a news thing a million years ago when she kissed her bro at a Hollywood whatever) 

ok ok ok 

AND NOW I think you should read Indian Summer and 
El Gaucho – that he did with Pratt. 

And then you can go into 

Piranese - The Prison Planet– a fun prison planet sci fi thing. 

Manara’s Kama Sutra– & 

The Art of Spanking– Both are just fun porn books

Gullivera– This is where things get dumb, this book is just a sexy retelling of Guliver’s travels but with sex 

WWW– I would call this one a low point if he didn’t do an xmen book with Claremeont. It’s about sexy web cam girls living together and I think they have some thing where they have to have sex every 20 minutes or something. It’s been awhile and it’s dumb. but as always the art is nice.

And then there’s the Jordo books that i haven’t read. (The Incal is really as far as i go with that guy) I’m sure I’ll get to them eventually.

Alright this was longer than I planned– but also shorter than I would like.

My point with Manara is always that regardless of his flaws his is a singular creator who, I think has done work with comics that I’ve yet to see anyone touch. As a long time fan of his work and deep admirer of what he’s capable of I find it to be a HUGE bummer when his body of work is reduced to being a pin up girl artist (granted part of that is on him) 

Do you think you would make another erotic/pornagraphic comic in the future? I know some of your current comic does contain sex, but that seems more like a minor part of the story. Something like another 'Pillow Fight', where sex is the main focus.

I can’t see doing anything longer than a short porn comic these days. I like drawing sex stuff, but I don’t think porn is really what I’m best at. or rather, I feel like there are guys like Kevin Taylor, Onta, Incase etc who breathe porn and I’m just not that dude. 

But that said, a friend of mine has been kicking around doing a follow up book to Pillow fight, and I like the idea of a woman (who likes women) doing a parody of my parody of lesbian school girl porn. 

Also, when I get around to collecting all my porn stuff at Image. (which I should get on soonish–after the new art book) It would be fun to do some new content for that.

It's odd that both you and Adam Warren share names with a athlete. Which I keep forgetting when I do a Google search for either of you. Have you ever contacted or meet your football playing counter part?

Me and the football player Brandon Graham follow each other on twitter but we haven’t really interacted. I like to think when the meat war comes all Brandon Grahams will form into a giant gross flesh Voltron, so it’s important that we at least know eachother’s twitter @’s  

(I think Adam Warren has a cool dude metal singer with his name too, and I had an extreme sports announcer) 

do you have strong feelings about how comics are printed? about paper stock and perfect vs sewn bindings? I do. I was reading prophet v4 tonight and there are a bunch of two page spreads which can't be opened flat and it sux. plz make the prophet hardcover

I have mixed feelings on printing.

With Prophet a lot of it was tied into what Image wanted and thought they could best sell for relatively cheap. The hardcover will be more about making a nice book for people who want the nice version. ISLAND works the same way. we do what we can to keep the lights on for the book and the trades are the fancier versions that are meant to last. 

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