This is a series of drawings illustrating a sexual fantasy from my late 80’s erotic sketchbook. This series, which I today call “Down Low With Luigi” is very similar in theme and plot to the “Down Low With Lou” series, except my “clone of desire” is a vaguely mafiosi type of dude rather than Lou Grant.
My parents gave me “The Art of Disney Animation” when I was 10 or 11 years old. At this time I decided I would become an animator myself, a successor to the “9 Old Men” who were responsible for the classics from the golden age of animation. However, I couldn’t draw the same thing twice, let alone 24 times per second, so I decided to draw comic books as practice. By the time I was 13 I had lost interest in animation, totally smitten with comic books. Ironically, I fell into animation upon graduating from art school; I was living in Los Angeles and, at the time, would have had to move to New York City, something beyond me. In retrospect, I know none of this was true, but I didn’t know it then. In any case, I’ve spent the majority of my professional career working in animation, on doing comic books on rare occasions.
This page comes from my animation training, and because I was training myself to be able to design and maintain a specific likeness.
Apparently I was hot for Al Capone.
Interesting side note: Edward G. Robinson, who got his career start playing Italian-American hoodlums, was Jewish. As is Ed Asner. As is my husband.
