"Plastic surgeons can't even come close to accomplishing what we can with a pencil." "Sex comics straddle borders and realms of possibility," said Yoe.Įrotic comics have been "taboo-breaking and opened up doors and changed culture," according to Yoe. has loaned many of the magazines images for the exhibit, which also features original gay fetish comics from Tom Finland and racy art from Brazil and Japan. Eric Stanton's "Blunder Broad" mimicked Wonder Woman. Joe Shuster's "Nights of Horror" depicts doppelgangers of Superman and Lois Lane in fetish scenarios. Other historic displays include 18 original pulp instruction books from Wesley Morse's "Tijuana Bibles" and MAD magazine cartoonist Wally Wood's sexually satirical drawing of Disney's characters. The New York City exhibit opens with an erotic self-portrait by Crumb, Philadelphia born, but who now lives in France, and other original pieces. The character was launched in 1965 and was the first cartoon film to receive an X rating.įritz, according to his creator, is "a sophisticated up-to-the minute young feline college student who lives in a modern 'supercity' of millions of animals - yes, not unlike people in their manners and morals." Cartoons and comics were groundbreakers."Īs for Yoe's favorite artist, that would be Crumb, who created the scandalous Fritz the Cat for his underground Comix. "This is the stock and trade of the cartoonist. The exhibit features original art by Harvey Kurtzman of Playboy's "Little Annie Fannie," and the magazine's iconic cover of Marge Simpson.Ĭomics as an art form have a "tradition of exaggerating things in words and pictures," according to Yoe. Later, as sexual mores loosened, erotic drawings became an integral part of magazines like Playboy, with artists such as Jack Cole, whose cartoons became the gold standard for the men's magazine. In 1954, during the McCarthy era, the Comics Code of Authority was created, giving birth to underground publications from artists like Crumb that featured characters like Mr. Later, artists put beloved characters like Popeye's Olive Oyl and even Disney's Snow White in highly compromising erotic situations. "They appealed to kids who lay on the floor to read the Sunday funnies. "When we think of comic strips and comic books, we think of kids, but historically more adults of read them," he said. Today, he runs Yoe Books, which produces books about comic history in his upstate New York home. But I have an adult side, too, and an interest in sex. "I am a creative type and in touch with my inner kid. He also worked for family-friendly Disney, the parent company of ABC News. He was personally recruited by Jim Henson to be creative director of the Muppets and later went on to be vice-president manager. Yoe's interest in erotica seems a far cry from his day job, developing toys like Cabbage Patch kids and My Little Pony. "You got to see how the physical act was performed and it was quite revelatory." "When you came across the sex-oriented comics, they were diagrammed well beyond Playboy and the health classes," he said.
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