GROPIE
Yet another depraved dispatch from the late Essex House
Funnybook Flashback: SKULL COMICS
Looking back at the underground comix of the early 1970s, one finds that horror, unsurprisingly, was a popular topic
WHACKING OFF
Another depraved dispatch from the upscale smut outfit Essex House, and one of its signature writers
Remembering that which is Better Forgotten: NOT A LOVE STORY and THE MASCULINE MYSTIQUE
Here I’m going look at 1981’s NOT A LOVE STORY: A FILM ABOUT PORNOGRAPHY, one of the most infamous documentaries of its time, and 1984’s THE MASCULINE MYSTIQUE, which is considerably less well known
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