|
Jon Macy
Jon Macy is a gay American cartoonist. He began his career in 1990 with the series ''Tropo'' published September 1990 – April 1992 by Blackbird Comics. Since then, he has contributed to various LGBT comics anthologies and gay pornographic magazines, but he is best known for his graphic novel ''Teleny and Camille'', which won a 2010 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Erotica. Early life Jon Macy was born on September 11, 1964, in California. Career Macy's first series ''Tropo'' was part of the early 1990s black and white alternative comics boom. It was followed by the erotic horror series ''Nefarismo'' published October 1994 – October 1995 by Eros Comix. These stories contained dark and surreal motifs, mixing eroticism with hallucination and death/rebirth, a common theme in Macy's personal works. Throughout the 1990s, Macy contributed to queer comics anthologies, '' Meatmen'' and ''Gay Comics'', and gay skin magazines, such as ''Steam'' by Scott O'Hara, ''Bunkhouse'', and '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teleny
''Teleny, or, The Reverse of the Medal'', is a pornographic novel, first published in London in 1893. The authorship of the work is unknown. There is a consensus that it was an ensemble effort, but it has often been attributed to Oscar Wilde. Set in fin-de-siècle Paris, its concerns are the magnetic attraction and passionate though ultimately tragic affair between a young Frenchman named Camille Des Grieux and the Hungarian pianist René Teleny. The novel is one of the earliest pieces of English-language pornography that focuses explicitly and near-exclusively on homosexuality (following ''The Sins of the Cities of the Plain'', published in 1881). Its lush and literate, though variable, prose style and the relative complexity and depth of character and plot development share as much with the Aestheticism, aesthetic fiction of the period as with its typical pornography. History of publication Wilde's authorship, while unproven, is claimed by erotic bookseller and pornographer Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |