COMICS UNDERGROUND JAPAN
COMICS UNDERGROUND JAPAN contains fourteen manga pieces, all of which, as the title proclaims, hail from the Japanese underground
JEANS BLUES: NO FUTURE
Japanese “Pinky violence” from 1974 that’s said to have been inspired by BONNIE AND CLYDE
HOW TO WRITE PORNO NOVELS FOR FUN AND PROFIT
A book that reads best as an enjoyable flashback to a more sexually frank era
ROACH
A pretty typical product of the upscale smut outfit Essex House, which made quite a mark on the adult fiction market of the late 1960s
THE RED SNAKE
This was the first entry in DH Publishing’s “Hino Horror” collection of English language mangas by Japan’s Hideshi Hino
2000: The Year in Bedlam
The following marks the inaugural entry in a new and ambitious project: an overview of my favorite films from each year, starting with 2000 and working my way backward
CITY OF THE BROKEN DOLLS
A strange collection of grainy black and white photos, mostly of injured Japanese women
RAIN
An unabashed throwback to the type of high-class, speculatively-charged porn lit that flourished in the late 1960s and early 70s
THE TIGHTER IT GETS
Robert Moore was a prolific contributor to the famed smut book outfit Olympia Press and its offshoot Ophelia, under whose imprint the present book appeared
THE MARK
For sleaze fans this is a title of special interest, a hilariously overwrought Greek sexploitater from 1977