A bizarre, surreal, silly, fun & good-natured romp. All of Cooper's work is about sex, and the horror and delight of flesh. He's never been more direct about it than here, though. Omnipotent aliens start an orgy in a young woman's apartment, teleporting in waitresses, rock stars, and superheroes to join in.
Cooper's art has a wonderfully unconventional aesthetic. I feel stupid saying that the bodies are realistic in a comic this cartoony, but he shows a diversity of body types. Women have big butts, tattoos, underarm hair. Yum! There's a couple gross scenes featuring tentacled aliens, but it's all in fun, and it's all consensual.
This story suffers from Fingerman's uncertainty whether he's willing to do actual porn, which results in his throwing in a couple projectile-vomiting scenes in the end to show he hasn't sold out to the Man.
Despite that substantial handicap, SIL stands out as a closely observed, distinctively rendered, realistic, and funny story of alternative culture life.
Unfortunately, unless you're really, really lucky, you're only gonna find this book as part of the Eros collection Finger Filth, the rest of which is Fingerman's tedious raunch humor strips for Screw magazine. The cover illustration's really cute, though.
Darkly atmospheric stories of a decadent, highly ritualized society, drawing on Japanese mythology and cyberpunk imagery. Manning absorbs disparate influences and and brings them all into his hip, extremely kinky style. His storytelling is dense and oblique--it took me a couple readings to entirely figure out what was going on. The art is gorgeous enough that that's far from a chore, though.
Intense, emotionally charged sex in an unusual, screenplay-like format. The appearance of the characters isn't really to my taste, but the raw and varied sex and the distinctive storytelling overcome that.
Beautiful, free-spirited, painfully hip writer Dez Diva camps out in the desert, goes to art openings, has sex with beautiful men, has sex with a beautiful woman, and tries to overcome her writers block. Funny, stylish, and sexy. Warning: the boys usually get their hearts broken in any Molly Keily comic.
Sweet, tongue-in-cheek all-girl smut with manga influences and a liberal sprinkling of kink. Almost (but not quite) cloyingly cute.
Funny, geeky, good-natured sci-fi and fantasy stories, rendered in an attractive cartoonish style.
Normally, I have a visceral dislike of photorealistic comics, but Quinn manages to overcome that prejudice. The stories aren't much beyond the Penthouse Variations level, generally concerning people exploring dominance and submission for the first time. However, the art is vivid and breathtakingly powerful. The people look like real, attractive people instead of models, caught in just the right moments of overwhelming sexual intensity. Note: My girlfriend finds his preoccupation with semen a little offputting.