Flaming ArtistI did these drawings while tabling at APE Con a few years back. I had
spent the prior evening in a San Francisco gay bar that was screen porn on the
overhead monitors. One of the movies had a blow-job sequence that took the
giver so long to unzip the receiver’s fly that it reminded me of a horror
movie. “What’s going to happen?” I mused; “Is an alien monster
penis going to leap out of his open pants?”
I got the idea from Art Spiegelman from one of his early 70’s short stories in Arcade Magazine to draw a series random single panels and later assemble them into a non-linear narrative. I started drawing them while tabling at APEcon, in San Francisco, in October of 2009, right after Obama got elected as I recall.
You’re getting three dicks
for the price of one today (five, actually).
The first 3 are from October
18, 2013, lovingly, carefully painted over this photo of the rear end of a
cable car traveling down the steep hills towards the Maritime National Park. Given
the Christmas decorations on the cable car, the penises have a touching
resonance with the 3 wise men of Christian mythology.
On the right side of the
double page folio spread is the ghostly image of a standing male nude with a
boner, Whuzzup with that, you may be wondering.
Whuzzup with that, you’ll
see as you turn the page of this virtual sketchbook is a pen and ink drawing
of standing male nude with a
hard-on, copied from a photo from a mid-80’s gayporn rag, in croquill pen and
ink wash. This drawing was done two days after the double page spread done on
10/18. The ink bled through the thin, porous paper to the other side of the
page, creating a ghost image on the photograph. I decided to make use of this
happy accident, augmenting it with thinly applied watercolor and gouache. Hence
the drawing, on the right hand side of the folio page, dated 19-21-12.
That accounts for 10-18,
10-20, and 10-21, 2012. Where, you
may be wondering, is the drawing for 10-19-2012?
Check
in tomorrow and find out.
