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Sometimes I look at a cover and think "Damn, this collection really does have some odd things in it." This is definitely one of them. This is the first adult comic published by Revolutionary Comics under their Carnal Comics label. There's an editorial on the inside front cover by publisher Todd Loren excoriating Fantagraphics publisher Gary Groth for being ashamed of his very successful Eros Comix line. Loren, rather, is proud of wanting to publish a line of comics that will appeal to a particular, and important, part of human experience. It's a very sex-positive message, and just one of the reasons that I really enjoy this company's output.
That said, this comic was...meh. The art was weird and underground-y, and it actually read a lot more like an underground comic than an adult comic. There's a distinction that's very subtle, but at some point the comic becomes more concerned with turning people on than it does making them think. This one skirts the edges. Carnal Comics, like its parent Revolutionary, eventually makes the leap into biographical comics and attains some respectable level of success for a porn comic. But it's because, though the stories may be trite sometimes, there's still a level of thoughtfulness about being sex-positive that is wonderfully refreshing to see in sex comics. This probably has something to do with the vast number of creators working on the titles being women.
Hmmmm. An interesting start to the second 2000.
More to follow.
Further Reading and Related Posts
Carnal Comics has shown up quite a lot in the blog.
And click here for my thoughts more generally on adult comics. Probably NSFW.
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