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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 27, 2009 7:07:15 GMT
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Post by lola on Nov 28, 2009 16:56:24 GMT
Interesting illustration style.
(My work computer finds the links too disturbing to open.)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2009 22:24:57 GMT
Disturbing? Whatever for? Because there is a very tiny amount of nudity exposed?
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 28, 2009 23:32:10 GMT
No -- more because of some of the themes.
I'm not sure, but I think some workplaces can track what their employees view, and an employee could be unfairly accused of looking at porn or something, depending on how the workplace tagged it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2009 11:17:00 GMT
How odd that workplaces do that. How does one determine,and how do apply for a job like that?
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 29, 2009 16:37:26 GMT
I don't know how stringent it is. My sister works in a school, & she can't open any email that has a link in it! It's not actual people doing the screening -- it's filters that are put into the system.
I feel it's a courtesy to advise about anything that someone might not want to, or be able to open at work.
Whatever -- yet another thread totally trivialized.
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Post by lagatta on Nov 29, 2009 18:40:42 GMT
No. I'd like to know more about this artist.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 29, 2009 18:53:25 GMT
I would, too, LaGatta!
There is a photo of him in the second link -- interesting face.
What I don't know is where his illustrations occur. They are obviously meant for adults, but what are the books? I am unaware of any books for adults with such extensive, brilliant work in them, but I know nothing about graphic novels.
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Post by lola on Nov 29, 2009 20:44:26 GMT
He'd be great in graphic novels.
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Post by lola on Nov 29, 2009 23:58:09 GMT
Okay. Now I'm on my own computer and am able to see more than just the first one. Very compelling style. I wish more novels were illustrated.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 30, 2009 0:14:38 GMT
I've often wondered about that, Lola. It's not as though there is no tradition of illustration for adults -- look at Aubrey Beardsley, for instance. My brother & I used to look at the The Giant Golden Book of Elves and Fairies over and over and over again. Clicking through the samples in the links, I realize those pictures are engraved in my brain. For so long, until underground comics hit the scene, there was no great source of illustrations for adults. Just click at random on the left-hand side of this blog, & it's easy to imagine what so many of those illustrators could have done with themes other than those for children. You have to wonder how many of them had a side business in pornography.
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Post by lagatta on Nov 30, 2009 1:38:07 GMT
Felix Salten, who wrote Bambi, also wrote ... Josefine Mutzenbacher, the fictional life-story of a Viennese prostitute, which was banned for a long time as much of its narrative took place when Josefine was a minor.
Problem is, pornography in some ways limits the imagination as much as writing smarmy stuff for children is - not that all children's books are smarmy. You have to pack it in - no interest in a book in which characters may be screwing, but also doing the dishes, working at their day job or looking off in the distance and dreaming.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 30, 2009 2:04:07 GMT
Just as illustrators must sometimes take jobs illustrating books that bore them, I am assuming that some of them must have had to take what they could get to pay the bills.
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Post by lola on Nov 30, 2009 16:36:42 GMT
Vania could do an excellent porn graphic novel, I bet.
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