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Beetle and Sarge, The Daily Derriere, April 18, 2017

This was drawn in 1989, as part of a one-man show at the “One Way”, a gay leather bar in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States. The show was titled “Recycled Erotica”. As part of the show, I did a series of 8” x 10” pen and ink illustrations of well-known comic strip and book characters in sexual situations. 

I revisited this subject matter in 1991, for a  one man show at “A Different Light” bookstore in Silverlake, Los Angeles, California, United State, called “Free Art”. This time the originals were 34” x 48” inched, on full sheets of 3 ply Strathmore Art Paper.

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THE DAILY DERRIERE, JUNE 4, 2016

This was a flyer I did for my show at  “A Different Light”, a LGBT bookstore in Silverlake, California. The copy pretty much says it all. I was employed at the time as a storyboard artist at Warner Animation, at the Batman Animated TV series. I handed this flyer, and others in a series, out at work. I was disappointed that only 3 people from work showed up to the opening. I later was told that I had a reputation at WB as being a gay activist. I was non-plussed. I had been involved with Act-up LA for 2 or 3 years at this point; if they wanted to meet gay activists they should go to some of those meetings. I was just a fair-weather activist; the work always came first, activism a distant second.

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THE DAILY DERRIERE, MAY 3, 2016

This drawing may have been intending for my one man exhibition at the ONE WAY, a leather bar I used to frequent in Silverlake back in the late 80’s. I wasn’t into leather per se, but I found some of the guys hot. But my show didn’t go up until summer 1989 and many of these drawings I’ll be posting over the next few days are dated 1988, so I’m guessing I did them for inclusion in “Secret Love” #4.

I purchased “Secret Love” #2 at A Different Light Bookstore (a LGBT specialty bookstore) in Silverlake, California. “Secret Love” was a limited (very limited) edition art folio where one could send in 100 copies of anything one wanted, along with 10 dollars, and be included in the next issue. So I sent 100 front and back xeroxes of 2 of my homoerotic drawings for issue #3 and was jazzed when I received my contributor’s copy. With issue #4, I got ambitious, as I recall. I figured, why not send in 100 original drawings, all done on the back (or front) of whatever pieces of throw-away paper I had lying around. All the drawings would be done super fast (I set my timer for 5 minutes). I don’t know why I still have these drawings. I do know I don’t have a copy of “Secret Love” #4, so either it never happened or I ran out of gas. I don’t think the latter is the case since I re-purposed many of those drawings for my one man exhibition at the ONE WAY, entitled “Recycled Erotica”, as all the art was executed on Trash Paper.