28 January 2012
My First Smut Comic: October Surprise - online (Eros Comix/Fantagraphics, 2003)
Unavailable for a long time, here for your reading pleasure is "October Surprise," my first professionally published work, my first comic drawn entirely in pencil, and my first work in the erotic genre is now available online here in its entirety. I kept this one offline--though it did run on adultwebcomics.com 2006-7--because I was a little self-conscious about how the art style looks to me now; part of the reason I originally did this in 2002(which was actually just for fun without publication in mind) was I was working on finishing Vitriol and was tired of all the work. I wasn't sure if I could even draw something just for the fun of it anymore, being at p. 210 of an eventual 252 of Vitriol at the time and sick of it. (it took me from 1997-2003)
For just the sake of fun, I wanted to draw something fast in a sketchy, simple style in pencil. I chose this, which is based on a real incident in October 1991, hence the name. I wanted to pick a memory enjoyable enough to draw three pages a night of. Which was the pace. I will say no more of its backstory except that "Rosa & Annalisa" were not their real names, nor were they actually meant in this story as "Rosa & Annalisa" yet; they grew into it. In this silent story, there are no names along with any other words. This was just supposed to be the real women.
However, on that this is subtitled a "memory," yes. It was the early 90s and things occurred. One of the characters has had their appearance changed to a totally fictional one, but mainly because the real person's looks I cast as a different character in Vitriol already.
Anyway, once I finished OS, later at the behest of my former wife when she read it--and to my surprise that she encouraged me to submit, because I still think it's drawn terribly(whatever our other troubles, she was always very supportive of my work, I have to say that)--I submitted it to Eros Comix/Fantagraphics and to my even greater shock, it was published, along with a number of stories afterward for the next three years. I also had the great fortune of a supportive and wise editor, Michael Dowers.
This one went into MENAGE A TROIS #3(July 2003), normally an anthology comic, but this got all 24 pages. I always thought it funny it was the third issue. It took up the whole of the comic(in fact is listed as a "spotlight issue") but I did not do the cover, which was by one "Kovik." If you ever try to track a copy down, this is what it looked like.
I'm...not that keen on the cover, truthfully. It's not terrible, it's just not that reflective of the contents. I was glad when I later did get to do the cover for the last full-length one Eros published, Gulag Gangbang. My pencil style was more refined by then. I hope.
So, if you'll excuse the roughness of the drawing, enjoy the story.
There is now also an index page for all three Rosa & Annalisa stories. I'll be changing the icons on the Comix page later when I get to it. Bookmark it(and Reddit or Digg it if you can).
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Unavailable for a long time, here for your reading pleasure is "October Surprise," my first professionally published work, my first comic drawn entirely in pencil, and my first work in the erotic genre is now available online here in its entirety. I kept this one offline--though it did run on adultwebcomics.com 2006-7--because I was a little self-conscious about how the art style looks to me now; part of the reason I originally did this in 2002(which was actually just for fun without publication in mind) was I was working on finishing Vitriol and was tired of all the work. I wasn't sure if I could even draw something just for the fun of it anymore, being at p. 210 of an eventual 252 of Vitriol at the time and sick of it. (it took me from 1997-2003)
For just the sake of fun, I wanted to draw something fast in a sketchy, simple style in pencil. I chose this, which is based on a real incident in October 1991, hence the name. I wanted to pick a memory enjoyable enough to draw three pages a night of. Which was the pace. I will say no more of its backstory except that "Rosa & Annalisa" were not their real names, nor were they actually meant in this story as "Rosa & Annalisa" yet; they grew into it. In this silent story, there are no names along with any other words. This was just supposed to be the real women.
However, on that this is subtitled a "memory," yes. It was the early 90s and things occurred. One of the characters has had their appearance changed to a totally fictional one, but mainly because the real person's looks I cast as a different character in Vitriol already.
Anyway, once I finished OS, later at the behest of my former wife when she read it--and to my surprise that she encouraged me to submit, because I still think it's drawn terribly(whatever our other troubles, she was always very supportive of my work, I have to say that)--I submitted it to Eros Comix/Fantagraphics and to my even greater shock, it was published, along with a number of stories afterward for the next three years. I also had the great fortune of a supportive and wise editor, Michael Dowers.
This one went into MENAGE A TROIS #3(July 2003), normally an anthology comic, but this got all 24 pages. I always thought it funny it was the third issue. It took up the whole of the comic(in fact is listed as a "spotlight issue") but I did not do the cover, which was by one "Kovik." If you ever try to track a copy down, this is what it looked like.
I'm...not that keen on the cover, truthfully. It's not terrible, it's just not that reflective of the contents. I was glad when I later did get to do the cover for the last full-length one Eros published, Gulag Gangbang. My pencil style was more refined by then. I hope.
So, if you'll excuse the roughness of the drawing, enjoy the story.
There is now also an index page for all three Rosa & Annalisa stories. I'll be changing the icons on the Comix page later when I get to it. Bookmark it(and Reddit or Digg it if you can).
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