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Because, even though all the parts of this came out this week, finding these on the CBR site is slightly challenging and just a bit annoying, and partly to get some of these things all in one place (and someday I WILL figure out how to get the tags to appear in the column at the left, if they can do so with a free layout):
Also an article from last year: Gay Comics 101 (afterelton.com) by Joe Palmer
And from slightly earlier this year: Midnighter could use some rescuing (afterelton.com) by François Peneaud, June 26, 2007
Something of a side note: yaoi and its relations get discussed in the last part of the CBR series, if very briefly. I was just wondering; are there actually all that many yaoi superhero series? Most of what I've seen has been pure romance and/or sex. Some of it has had supernatural overtones, but I haven't seen any superhero stuff per se. Then again, given my own predilections, I haven't seen much at all. Nothing against manga as a whole, you understand; it's just that if I'm going to be reading characters that are being sexualized, I kind of prefer them to look a bit older than most yaoi characters do. And if I'm going to be reading something for its smutty aspects, I kind of prefer the smut to be a bit more ... explicit than most yaoi generally is. (Mind, it can be sort of funny, sometimes; there was an anime, called, I think, "My Sexual Harrassment" or something like that, with the most lovingly detailed oral sex I've ever seen. Only, according to the rules in place at the time, you were absolutely positively not allowed to show actual genitalia or public hair. Instead, they resorted to outlining the affected organ, so to speak, in rivers and oceans of saliva. I mean, by the end, you were in no doubt that yes, the man did in fact, have a penis; you were also wondering if sex on a couch might possibly lead to drowning.)
For what it's worth, and in an entirely non-yaoi-ish direction, I'm wondering if the strictures regarding sex and genitalia have been relaxed for Japanese publishers. I tried to read one called MPD Psycho which has been getting generally really good reviews, and one image both stopped me in my tracks and kept me from wanting to go on with it. It's an image of a woman in a small refrigerator -- or possibly a small refrigerator box; it's not clear which from the little I read. Her arms and legs have been cut off, and the rest of her body has been drawn in great detail, including below the waist, which I thought was simply not allowed there. In any event, I ran across that image and decided that This Was Not A Book For Me.
And now that I've gone off on a tangent, everything else will go in part 2, since it's pretty much entirely unrelated.
Comic Book Resources - CBR News: Homosexuality in Comics, a four part series
- Part I
- Part II
- Part III
- Part IV
Also an article from last year: Gay Comics 101 (afterelton.com) by Joe Palmer
And from slightly earlier this year: Midnighter could use some rescuing (afterelton.com) by François Peneaud, June 26, 2007
Something of a side note: yaoi and its relations get discussed in the last part of the CBR series, if very briefly. I was just wondering; are there actually all that many yaoi superhero series? Most of what I've seen has been pure romance and/or sex. Some of it has had supernatural overtones, but I haven't seen any superhero stuff per se. Then again, given my own predilections, I haven't seen much at all. Nothing against manga as a whole, you understand; it's just that if I'm going to be reading characters that are being sexualized, I kind of prefer them to look a bit older than most yaoi characters do. And if I'm going to be reading something for its smutty aspects, I kind of prefer the smut to be a bit more ... explicit than most yaoi generally is. (Mind, it can be sort of funny, sometimes; there was an anime, called, I think, "My Sexual Harrassment" or something like that, with the most lovingly detailed oral sex I've ever seen. Only, according to the rules in place at the time, you were absolutely positively not allowed to show actual genitalia or public hair. Instead, they resorted to outlining the affected organ, so to speak, in rivers and oceans of saliva. I mean, by the end, you were in no doubt that yes, the man did in fact, have a penis; you were also wondering if sex on a couch might possibly lead to drowning.)
For what it's worth, and in an entirely non-yaoi-ish direction, I'm wondering if the strictures regarding sex and genitalia have been relaxed for Japanese publishers. I tried to read one called MPD Psycho which has been getting generally really good reviews, and one image both stopped me in my tracks and kept me from wanting to go on with it. It's an image of a woman in a small refrigerator -- or possibly a small refrigerator box; it's not clear which from the little I read. Her arms and legs have been cut off, and the rest of her body has been drawn in great detail, including below the waist, which I thought was simply not allowed there. In any event, I ran across that image and decided that This Was Not A Book For Me.
And now that I've gone off on a tangent, everything else will go in part 2, since it's pretty much entirely unrelated.
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