The Sebaceous Funk

2012 cons

2012-01-10T19:24:00.000-08:00

Here are the cons I'm going to try and make this year.IMAGE EXPO February 24-26, Oakland, CA-WONDERCON March 16-18, Anaheim, CA-EMERALD CITY March 30-April 1, Seattle, WA-FANATICON May 12, Ashville, NC-CAKE June 16-17, Chicago, IL-COMICON July 11-15, San Diego, CA-ZINEFEST September 3-4, San Francisco, CA-COMIKAZE September 15-16, Los Angeles, CA-APE October 13-14, San Francisco, CA-BENTCON December 1-2, Los Angeles, CAI've always wanted to go to TCAF but I'm afraid of the customs officials taking my comics and throwing me in jail. I also want to go to SPX, but it's the same weekend as Comikaze.

New blog

2011-12-21T13:13:00.001-08:00

http://jonmacy.tumblr.com/I've started a new blog on Tumblr for news, reviews and just random stuff. This will still be my sketchbook blog which will be all the more interesting very soon as I restart the Sebaceous Funk project.

Fan Boys Of The Universe

2011-11-23T11:37:00.001-08:00

I've been lucky to have the FBOTU ask me to be presented in their Artist Spotlight. As a small independent artists it's really nice to get that kind of attention with cross over appeal. I've been really impressed with their choices in news and reviews as it's not all the the usual mainstream and I fine many new geeky things to love at the site. Check it out.

http://www.fanboysoftheuniverse.com/index.php/site/comments/fbotu_spotlight_a_fine_line/

Wolf Tat

2011-11-22T14:15:00.001-08:00

I've been working on a wolf tattoo design for a friend. Started out Aztec and not heading to Celtic, but some of the crazy Aztec stuff stuck which is pretty cool. These are just the rough sketches.

Gallery day

2011-10-19T10:13:00.000-07:00

We are having a final day for the Dirty Comics show. Come hang out with us and celebrate the most provocative and erotic comic book artists working today. Drop in say hi and see the show before it's gone. Saturday October 29th, 20-6pm. At the Center for Sex and Culture 1349 Mission St, San Francisco (Between 9th and 10th St)Thank you to all my friends who came to the reception and all the events, you are sexy.

Dirty comics artists

2011-10-08T14:15:00.000-07:00

Last nights reception was a huge success. It was a great crowd of very interesting local characters and everyone was excited about the show. The CSC pulled out all the stops and laid out a great feast for us and many of the artists in the show were there to sign and sell books. I can't say how happy and proud I am of this show and the support I've had from the CSC, Marlene and especially the awesome Dorian. Many people asked for a complete list of the artists;Donna Barr, Tony Breed, Katie Bryant, Megan Yamanaka, Nickie C, Jennifer Camper, Rob Clarke, John Coulthart, Agnes Czaja, Dame Darcy, Dave "ddog" Davenport, KD Diamond, Dylan "NDR" Edwards, Edie Fake, Diego Gomez, Roberta Gregory, Michelle Gruben, Justin Hall, Pam Harrison, Dorian Katz, Nathan Kibler, Molly Kiely, Robert Kirby, Steve Macisaac, Jon Macy, Michael Manning, Mioki, Mari Naomi, Fred Noland, Eric Orner, Sina Evil, Christine Smith, Rosemary Van Deuren, Werepuppy, Rick Worley, Sean-Z

Erotic comics art

2011-10-03T17:41:00.001-07:00

This friday is the opening reception for the Dirty Comics show at the CSC. If you are in SF I hope you can make it down for this only in SF experience. Our town still has what it takes to stay on the edge of sex and sexuality. http://www.sexandculture.org/

Folsom St Fair

2011-09-23T20:10:00.000-07:00

I'll be at the Folsom St fair this sunday. I did up some prints taken from my puppy play comic. Come down and check it out at my booth. E-1104

Upcoming Comic Book Events

2011-09-16T14:29:00.000-07:00

Here is a list of where I will be appearing and selling books over the next few months.Sunday September 25th The Folsom St Fair San Franciscohttp://folsomstreetfair.org/art/Saturday and Sunday October 1-2nd Northwest Press booth at the Alternative Press Expo, The Concourse, San Franciscohttp://www.comic-con.org/ape/Friday October 7th The Dirty Comics Show reception 6-9Pm 1349 Mission St San Franciscohttp://www.sexandculture.org/Thursday October 13th "Discussion on Yaoi" by Agnes Czaja and crew. 7Pm 1349 Mission St San Franciscohttp://www.sexandculture.org/Friday October 14th "When pictures speak louder than words," panel at Lit Quake, Z Space 450 Florida Sthttp://www.litquake.org/calendar-of-events/event/when-pictures-speak-louder-than-wordsTuesday October 18th "Kinky Wonder Woman" by Boston Blake. 7Pm 1349 Mission St San Franciscohttp://www.sexandculture.org/

Dirty Comics

2011-09-14T13:46:00.000-07:00

I've been asked to curate a "Dirty Comics" show at the Center for Sex and Culture here in San Francisco. It's got almost forty artists all contributing one page of sexy comics art in the month of October.

Sacred Grove of the Druids

2011-08-31T10:39:00.000-07:00

I want more crop circles and more animals and growing things. I love those forests that are so over grown and dark that the light looks green.

Tree Walking

2011-08-30T15:17:00.000-07:00

Byron passes throu

gh the wall of trees into the sacred grove. Not without a little groping by the gods.

Sacred Grove

2011-08-30T14:26:00.000-07:00

Oisin and Byron make their way to the sacred grove to meet the Druid masters.

Werewolf Mystic

2011-08-27T11:27:00.000-07:00

In an old trailer in the woods there is the werewolf sorcerer who can tell you your future for a price.

Puppy Play

2011-08-26T16:57:00.001-07:00

Doing some preliminary drawings for a possible gig for a fetish magazine. It would be like old times to be working for skin mags again.

Sacred Sexuality

2011-08-25T10:42:00.000-07:00

Just when you thought there would be no more tentacle rape.

Gay werewolf love

2011-08-22T18:09:00.001-07:00

Werewolf mosh pit

2011-08-17T17:12:00.001-07:00

sketch benefit for the center for sex and culture in SF

2011-08-15T17:41:00.000-07:00

Participated in a fund raiser where artists sketched nude models to raise money for the CSC. It was a lot of fun but a long day. The models were a bit shy at first and I had to tell some of them to be proud of their penis and push it out. They accommodated me nicely

Back to nature

2011-08-15T17:32:00.000-07:00

I've been doing a lot of work but my scanner has not been working so I haven't been posting anything. I'm just going to take pictures with my phone so sorry for the lack of quality.

Review of Teleny & Camille by Ashley Cook

2011-06-28T15:51:00.001-07:00

http://gfbrobot.com/2011/06/28/graphic-novel-teleny-and-camille-wins-lambda-award/

True Gay love werewolf style

2011-06-17T13:42:00.000-07:00

The boys running around being silly. I truly feel that love is all about playing with each other and feeling good with each other not "being there" or requirements. I know I paint Byron as being all needy and fearful of losing what he has, but here I hope to show the other side. The good side.
The images are of Byron taking Oisin to the werewolf camp. There they meet the werewolf mystic in his broken down old trailer.

Druid Werewolf love

2011-06-12T09:28:00.001-07:00

Some happy moments for these characters.

Gay Druid and werewolf in love

2011-06-11T09:10:00.001-07:00

Finally a happy scene for the boys.

Periwinkle Journal interview

2011-06-07T09:15:00.000-07:00

http://periwinklejournal.tumblr.com/post/6255806163

The very awesome magazine Periwinkle Journal is interviewing queer artists and I was lucky enough to participate.

Oscar Wilde illustration from Gay graphic novel

2011-06-05T10:03:00.000-07:00

I started a blog to sell some of the original pages from my graphic novels. I'm starting out with the three pages that have Oscar Wilde in them. Check them out using the link to the right -Original pages for sale.

Jon Macy wins Lambda Literary Award for Gay Erotica 2010

2011-06-01T10:48:00.000-07:00

I just have to say that I love that I won in Gay Erotica. I'm proud of it and I'm proud of the Lambda Literary Foundation for celebrating sex positive fiction and non fiction. It takes guts and courage and foresight and they have all of that in huge amounts.

This is a once in a lifetime moment for me and I cannot thank you all enough.

Teleny and Camille reviewed by Paul Gravett in the Times Literary Supplement

2011-05-22T22:04:00.000-07:00

Reposted from http://www.paulgravett.com
PG Tips No. 34:
"Obvious Impostures"
Paul Gravett

At the 9th Annual Open Illustration Forum at University College Falmouth this March, organised by Steve Braund and chaired by me, on the theme of Metamorphosis: Interpretation and Adaptation in Illustration, acclaimed Lewis Carroll illustrator John Vernon Lord commented, “While every writer uses the same language of words, every artist uses their own self-invented language.” This is especially true when graphic novelists bring their idiosyncratic vision and personal perspective to adapt existing texts into comics. In the process there may be losses but also gains. Some great works of literature have been abridged too far, infamously those condensed into sixty-four pages at most in the much-reprinted American comic book series Classics Illustrated, which began in 1947. Once derided as Classics Desecrated, many of those primers and their modern successors should be viewed as works in their own right which also deserve credit for instilling in some readers the curiosity and courage to explore the unillustrated original. More recent attempts in graphic novels to retain every last word, for example when adapting Shakespeare’s plays, have resulted in some unwieldy, Zeppelin-scale speech balloons imbalancing the pictures. The Bard was not writing for this medium, of course. His unedited plays could still work in comics, if only enough illustrations and pages could be alotted to express them fully.

Luckily, the British adaptor I.N.J. Culbard has been granted 128 pages in which to tell H.P. Lovecraft’s 1936 tale At The Mountains of Madness. While undertaking to delineate Lovecraft’s lavishly described yet indescribable horrors, Culbard may have empathised with the narrator, Professor William Dyer, who reports on his Antarctic expedition and laments that his “...ink drawings…will be jeered at as obvious impostures.” It takes nerve to pollard Lovecraft’s verbiage to fit inside caption boxes. Culbard keeps bursts of Lovecraft’s voice almost word for word, but mostly uses the heady prose and proliferating adjectives as inspiration for his image-making, to show rather than tell. Using a bold brush line, he stylises faces, mixing Dan Dare chins and Tintin dots-for-eyes, propelling the growing tension across each dynamically composed spread, with images bleeding off the edges of the page. Novels can hide their shocks within rows of typeset words, but graphic novels surprise most effectively by the reveal of a fresh page. So, for example, instead of being immersed in Professor Dyer’s lengthy biological analysis of the first otherworldly fossil discovered by his team, the readers turns the page and happens upon this disturbing monstrosity all at once; it fills their field of vision and with the same frightful suddenness the scientists themselves experienced. While sacrificing much of Lovecraft’s elaborate flashbacks, Culbard distils from it dialogue and action, which give events a greater unnarrated immediacy. We are there. From the start we ‘hear’ the haunting sound of ‘Tekeli-eli’ which Lovecraft only reveals near the end. Images cleverly give us extra elements: a nod to the atomic bomb, undreamt of at the time of writing; and a glimpse of Danforth’s “final horror” reflected in his goggles as gigantic tentacles writhe around the devastated ancient cityscape. It’s entirely appropriate that the massive murals the explorers discover there - “Vivid. Skilfully intricate. And yet utterly alien” - are drawn by Culbard to resemble page after page of comics.

A present-day horror that many would prefer to ignore lies at the heart of The Rime of the Modern Mariner: the man-made North Pacific Gyre of plastic pollutants which is decimating birds and sealife. Its spiral form, a symbol in the lexicon of comics to represent dizziness, becomes a motif for the whirling winds and waves and our sailor storyteller’s disorientating travails. Although Coleridge in his day was unwilling for his ballad-form verse to be illustrated, adaptations soon followed from Gustave Doré in 1876 to Hunt Emerson in 1989. Nick Hayes, however, boldly updates Coleridge’s vision by crafting fresh, affecting verse for his “bearded park bench loon” who pours out his warning of ecological disaster to a callous businessman. Hayes’ stanzas are printed in rough-hewn capitals of uneven size, only occasionally in speech balloons, swimming smoothly among the images. Most words are neatly justified to fit the width of panel or page, so that the emphasis suggested by certain larger words seems mainly spatial rather than meaningful.

Hayes’ artwork comes in black and tones of blue, restricted further to only one of these colours for impact or for most of Part Seven’s account of the mariner’s recovery and reconnection to nature, when his toes sprout roots and his fingers leaves. Many of Hayes’ long-nosed male characters look similar, but he makes up for some lack of variety and subtlety in his facial types and expressions by his general graphic inventiveness. He shows the damaged sea and sky awash with chemical formulae or imports the detailed textures of whalebone scrimshaw, making use of Christian and mythological iconography, including Gaia and Thor, and Oceanic native art. He often matches his drawings to his verbal flair, for example by portraying “a medusa’s head of nylon knots / a clotted ragged knot / acrylic foam and polymers / that still refuse to rot”,’ or “the heart of a two inch salp beating like a bell”. Even the albatross turns out to have died from “a fine nylon gauze tangled in its chest”. The Rime of the Modern Mariner achieves a powerful cumulative effect, and the Mariner’s environmental message will surely influence many readers to never casually discard another plastic carrier or water bottle again.

Challenges of adaptation are openly addressed by American comics creator Jon Macy in his introduction to Teleny and Camille, his reinterpretation of the anonymous homoerotic novel Teleny, or The Reverse of the Medal, published in 1893 and attributed to Oscar Wilde and his circle. Macy draws himself at work on the project, realising that “only adding pictures to the [complete] text would not do it justice”, but anxious about having to “trim the Victorian gingerbread”, and imagining himself “facing a tribunal for all my Wildean crimes.” Macy would not be found guilty, as he has made this book his own by focusing on its love story between two men, put in context in a prologue narrated by the London bookseller Charles Hirsch. Macy goes on to accompany the already highly charged texts with an imagery of brooding eroticism and, as required, uninhibited pornography, in some passages stripping everything down to purely visual terms. His inky linework stays sensuous and sensitive to the turbulent emotions and settings of his two idealised lovers, shifting between streamlined simplicity and more ornate flourishes from Expressionism to Art Nouveau. Although Macy stays true to the original novel’s tragic conclusion, he finds it unsatisfactory that every “story of gay love has to end with one or both dying.” So he adds his own epilogue, imagining a happy ending in which the couple are rescued and relocated to Paris and eventually Algiers. Teleny itself was originally the result of several collaborating imaginations, so it seems fitting that, in a very different climate more than a century later, Macy joins them as this book’s latest contributor.

In 2007, the Israeli poet Galit Seliktar entrusted her short semi-autobiographical story The Substitute Lifeguard to her younger brother Gilad Seliktar to transform into a comic for the literary magazine Masmerim. Something sparked between them and the siblings went on to produce two more comics based on Galit’s first-person accounts of events that took place between the mid 1970s and late 1980s. These are now compiled into Farm 54. In a postscript, Gilad discusses his decisions in translating into comics his sister’s “extremely poetic” writings, which are often “saturated with elaborate descriptions” and “more explicit”. Their bond of trust allowed the artist to come up with his own bold solutions, preferring to “lower the volume” on parts of Galit’s stories which he found “too loud”. He replaces her deliberately abrupt opening sentence in the tale Spanish Perfume - “In the morning Mom ran over our German Shepherd” - with five pages of subtle, wordless sequences of the dog’s death. Elsewhere, he tones down a pivotal scene in Houses, in which a weeping Palestinian boy is begging a female Israeli soldier to give his pet rabbit back to him, by showing across two pages the woman cradling the animal to her breast and face while the boy looks on, the only dialogue her whispered “Beautiful”. The pages are divided into a three panels, wide like a cinema screen but borderless as if about to dissolve, the restrained blacks contrasted by the bleached creaminess of the paper and accents in a dusky pink. A deep moral disquiet haunts these tales, not least in Houses, Galit’s “most autobiographical” story, which records her remote yet complicit involvement while on compulsory army service in a night-time exercise to demolish Palestinian houses. Whether in the modest handwritten words or the tenderly observant pictures, what is never lost in this remarkable debut triloy is the poet’s exquisite poise and telling understatement.

The speeches and autobiographical notes of one of India’s foremost revolutionaries, Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar (1891-1956), provide Srividya Natarajan and S. Anand with the springboards for an unusual graphic biography, Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability. One sixth of the world’s population lives in India, and one sixth of those are classified as Dalits or “untouchables”. The caste system continues to deny most of India’s 170 million dalits the dignities of life; in 2008 a crime was committed against a dalit every 18 minutes.

Dr. Ambedkar is remembered mainly for drafting India’s national constitution in 1947, but his significance, as an untouchable who rose to prominence and as a lifelong activist against discrimination, has been largely neglected. Ambedkar’s historical experiences of prejudice, from the age of ten in school, are framed here by a passionate present-day debate at a bus stop between a young man, who believes “Caste isn’t real any longer. It’s a non-issue”, and a woman who brings to his attention recent harrowing outrages reported in the media. There follow four “Books”, three based on Ambedkar’s reminiscences about injustices concerning basic rights to Water, Shelter and Travel, the fourth explaining how Durgabai Vyam and Subhash Vyam, the husband-and-wife artist team, adapted their tribal aesthetics into comics. Pardhan Ghond art does not represent, it signifies, so here a train becomes a snake, a fortress a lion, happiness a peacock. Refusing to “force our characters into boxes - it stifles them”, the Vyams make their panels sinuous, organic, outlined by dignas, decorative borders normally applied to buildings with colored earth. Their intense patterning, their faces mainly in profile with large single eyes, and their balloons - bird-like for gentleness, with a scorpion’s sting for venomous dialogue or the mind’s eye for thought - show how traditional artists can reinvent and re-invigorate the medium. Ambedkar’s plea for justice can be heard again through this beautiful, compelling documentary.
Posted: May 22, 2011

A version of this Article ran in The Times Literary Supplement, May 20th 2011

Gay werewolf versus yappy dog

2011-05-19T09:54:00.000-07:00

A mean old lady at the park sics her tiny yappy dog on Byron.

Total lack of photo references

2011-05-18T08:33:00.000-07:00

Sometimes I look at pictures and get the basic pose from them, but here you can see what I can do straight out of my head. Most of the time I can't tell the differences and to be honest I can never find a photo that is perfect for the story I'm telling so I end up changing a lot of it.

Happy homosexual werewolf in love

2011-05-17T15:36:00.000-07:00

So, anyone who knows me and has heard the sad stories about Heathcliff knows about the lucky penny game. One day H and I were going for a walk and he found a penny on the sidewalk. He was so happy and his face lit up and for the rest of the day he clutched it like a life line. We didn't have a lot of good days so I jumped on anything that might help us get through without a panic attack. So, once or twice a week I would get up in the middle of the night and walk around the neighborhood leaving pennies. Yeah, sweet. So, now that I'm working on issue three of FH, and after all the sadness and crying, I wanted to show some happy moments.

Sex on Mars

2011-05-16T08:52:00.000-07:00

Working on some sample penciled pages. Been awhile since I've drawn women.

Gold Star

2011-05-05T16:57:00.000-07:00

I got these from Lambda today. Tomorrow I'll hit the stores and slap them on. It would be nice

to get them to merchandise all the finalists together as a promo.

Gay Druid torture sex

2011-05-02T10:14:00.000-07:00

End of scene one. The penciled pages turned out great. These sketches are all out of order so you'll just have to trust me that the pacing works really well, and that poor little apprentice is going to get a work over.

Druidic sex experiment

2011-05-01T11:03:00.001-07:00

Opening scene of Fearful Hunter three. Druidic sex experiment. See, this is why I need a willing apprentice that I can chain up and use for my nefarious plans. Know any?

Druids getting down

2011-04-29T13:45:00.000-07:00

Eanruig plays with his toys.

Fearful Hunter review by Sean McGrath

2011-04-24T09:41:00.000-07:00

Check out more from Sean McGrath at www.orthocomics.com

Let’s the basics out of the way first: Jon Macy’s art in “Fearful Hunter” is superlative. His “Teleny & Camille” was great, but he has (as he should) gotten stronger, more Macyesque imagery on the page. Boffo. And basic number two: the erotic charge of the story is part of the story and not the only story or, worse, filler to bring the book to an even number of pages. I read comics for the stories; I read nifty.org to get off. Macy has kindly brought two of my hobbies together. Again, well done.

But here’s what I really love: Macy has created intriguing characters in the couple of Oisin and Byron, two men who in the real world I would probably start a betting pool over how long and in what way their relationship would implode. Yes, I know this makes me a horrible person. Still, I found myself pulling for these two to come and stay together.

Oisin is a druid apprentice, taught by the older Tavius, who is full of plots and snares like Old Nick himself. Oisin wants to be a druid, but is distracted by what he is told he cannot have: a life involving other people. Magic requires that he be dedicated only to his work of safeguarding the Natural World. Still, he is fascinated by the wolfboy Byron, and is in earnest to heal Byron’s “sad heart”. Because that always ends well.

Byron, the wolf-boy, is magickal, hot, and as sensitive as a ficus. If I knew someone like this, I would definitely call him on a lonely Friday night after a contempt-filled watching of “Smallville”, but then shuffle him out the door after the deed was done and before I could hear how painful and difficult his week had been (which, yes, I know makes me a horrible person). Byron’s sensitivity, however, isn’t from the oh-so-common “my man done me wrong” syndrome that I’m certain anyone reading this article can relate to. Since he mates for life, there’s never been an emotionally stunted, abusive ex that swims in his subconscious, telling him that he’s worthless. He is simply fearful. And emo. So. So. SO emo. Which makes me wonder what it is that Oisin sees in him, or, more importantly, what Macy sees in him (he is, after all, the eponymous character). Of course, not every love story (and this is a love story) has to be peopled with noble characters of deep-set virtue who are not only self-aware and pithy at an early age, but who have a love like no man or woman has ever know handed to them for no better reason than Destiny has declared they be the Luke and Laura of their age. Flaws like Byron’s (and Oisin’s for that matter) make their story far more worthy a read, mostly because there is no guarantee here that love will conquer all, despite what Shea, the werefox, promises.

What I enjoyed most about “Fearful Hunter” is the world Macy created to house his people and their stories. Like Charles de Lint’s urban fantasies, our and the sidhe world aren’t countless dimensions apart, but literally right next door to each other. Neighbors, classmates, acquaintances could be fey and one would never know. Tavius and Oisin’s keep is a cavish affair, deep in the forest and underground, where they practice magic that should light them up like a Fukushima crab to even non-magical folk. Yet they are practically unknown to the nearby townies. There is a sidhe bar that is in plain sight of every slack-jeaned punk within a hundred miles (have I mentioned the care with which Macy draws men’s asses?) hangs out in with the Cousins that is just part of the fabric of this world. No walls or wardrobes separate Humans from the Others. In fact, it seems that only one’s unwillingness to see what is right there in plain sight is what keeps these peoples apart.

Jon Macy’s “Fearful Hunter” series comes highly recommended.

Lambda Literary SF reading.

2011-04-20T08:33:00.000-07:00

Help Justin and I celebrate comics being taken so seriously by coming down next Tuesday to the SF public library 100 Larkin St. Meeting room A and B. Reception 5pm, reading starts at 6pm. There are fifteen authors all reading, very briefly, from their books. It's a great party in a posh setting so come on down.

http://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/finalists-readings/

The Arch Druid

2011-04-19T12:37:00.000-07:00

The first scene is all about the plot to separate Oisin and Byron. The Arch Druid also has his own dirty experiments he's conducting with his helpless apprentice.

More bad behavior

2011-04-18T14:35:00.000-07:00

Yes, another apprentice about to be raped by a god. It's a theme.

Fearful Hunter chapter three first sketches

2011-04-17T20:32:00.000-07:00

Opening scene with Tavius and the Arch Druid plotting their evil plan.

Review of Fearful Hunter two on Gay Comics List

2011-04-07T16:27:00.000-07:00

The second issue of Fearful Hunter takes us deeper into the mythology of the druids, showing us the price they all pay for their powers. Over the course of this 68-page installment, Jon Macy takes the time to draw lots and lots of (gay) sex, far more than in the previous issue. And he manages to integrate those scenes within his larger discourse on love and need.

Oisin the young druid is finally introduced to the god of his mentor Tavius, a many-tentacled entity who’s fond of human males. Cue the scene with Oisin being penetrated from every orifice. But what could be seen superficially as what’s now a trope of erotic comics becomes in the hands of Macy a comment on the differences between gods and men, where raw desire meets unquenchable lust. For Tavius has never been able to forget the sensations of his first and only sexual meeting with his god, and that makes him less than a complete man—while Oisin seems protected from the effects of the gods’ lust by his love for Byron, his all-new boyfriend the werewolf. The beauty of Macy’s writing is that this protection isn’t shown in a cheesy or naive way, but as something that’s as adult as Tavius’s behavior toward this god is childish, in its refusal to grow beyond the shadow of his father/lover holy figure.

Another aspect of this issue also proved that Jon Macy has thought a lot about his characters: Byron, who’d only be shown as rather carefree, now shows that he’s deeply insecure, fearing that Oisin will soon leave him, and that in his youth, he wasn’t a typical werewolf, to say the least (you’ll even learn where the title of the series comes from). I thought that was an interesting development, since it adds to the external threat of the gods (and of Tavius’s designs on both Oisin and Byron) an internal threat that the young lovers have to face.

Macy’s art is as lush and sexy as ever, with its depiction of a luxuriant forest and of impressively male gods. The sex scenes between the men and the gods vibrate with an energy that feels as dangerous as exhilarating, and the tenderness of the pages with Oisin and Byron making love is carried both by the poetic text and the sensual line that shows the male body as an integral part of nature.

I can’t finish this review without mentioning the extremely cute back-up, set in the same world, which shows what happens when a magical young fox steals the underwear of a hunky, hairy farmer. It brought a big smile to my face.

Whether you just like hot, gay sex in your comics or whether you’re attracted to intelligent love stories, this second issue of Fearful Hunter1 should make you happy. It certainly made me happy.

wondercon 2011

2011-03-30T14:24:00.000-07:00

More information at http://www.comic-con.org/wc/

I'll be at Wondercon this weekend. Come see me and the gang at the Prism Comics booth #319. Come meet all the creators from Northwest Press.

I'll also be on the "indie comics panel" Friday April 1, 3:30-4:30 Room 250/262
With Trina Robbins, Lee Marrs, Shaenon Garrity, Ted Naifeh and Rich Boutell moderated by Brian Andersen.

and the "Writing Queer" panel Saturday April 2, 6:00-7:00pm Room 245/256
with Paige Braddock, Steve MacIsaac and James Robinson. Moderated by Justin Hall.

I did some art for the new series Intersections by Rich Boutell and will be at the cool kids table Saturday 2-3pm Booth #610. Come check it out.

Gay werewolf lover

2011-03-24T09:30:00.000-07:00

I was running out of FH#1 so I'm doing a second printing. This gave me a chance to fix a few things. The book is now standard size with the new logo, I originally inked it for color so I added a lot of black shadows and borders to the pages, and I redrew a bunch of panels that were just awful. I'm really proud of it and feel like I've got a handle on working with the printer.

Lambda Literary Awards

2011-03-16T11:08:00.000-07:00

http://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/2011-finalists/
The finalists have been announced and Justin Hall's Glamazonia and my Teleny and Camille have both been nominated for a Lammy. This is a huge honor and it's so heartening to see graphic novels recognized.

hulk smash puny sphincter

2011-03-15T17:37:00.001-07:00

Just a tee shirt I had made up for fun.

Gay tentacle beast seeks druid

2011-02-22T17:14:00.000-08:00

Strings attached. OK, so new cover for issue two.

Antler Glow

2011-02-21T23:01:00.000-08:00

I'm working on an alternate cover.

this is for a page I was going to add where Byron is visited by the stag god in the woods.

Tentacle beast looking for willing gay boy, must have own slime

2011-02-19T22:49:00.000-08:00

A little background monstrosity for a new cover. I'll add naked boys later.

advertising

2011-02-18T13:14:00.001-08:00

which is better?

happy valentines day you homos

2011-02-14T17:12:00.000-08:00

even though I feel that valentines day is a straight holiday i am willing to indulge in their crazy cock in pussy fantasies. Gay romantic fantasies are much more sophisticated. Like so.

random sketches

2011-02-12T17:20:00.000-08:00

I was killing time at a cafe this morning waiting on people.

trees

2011-02-10T09:11:00.000-08:00

I want to add some trees in the background of the cover. Very grayed out in the mist.

Big gay naked druid

2011-02-07T21:17:00.000-08:00

Fearful Hunter 2 cover concept

2011-02-06T19:52:00.000-08:00

gay sex comic cover concept on not

2011-02-03T14:21:00.000-08:00

I'm not convinced. Maybe I'll color it and use it as a back cover.

yet even more tentacles

2011-01-24T08:49:00.000-08:00

I redrew some panels to try and make them more cinematic and not so pin up. I've reworked the scene to show Tavius' motivation more strongly. I think I'm done with the changes and back to inking.

commission

2011-01-21T17:47:00.000-08:00

I'm working on a commission for a Teleny type page. Actually if I ever reprint I will add this page to the book.

nuts and bolts of sequential art

2011-01-18T11:53:00.000-08:00

I'm doing a short silent sequence so there are a lot of small panels that don't make much sense when seen in my sketchbook but they really come together on the final page. It's going to be a strong scene that is simple and clear which is my main goal these days.

Good porn doesn't grow on trees.

2011-01-17T10:10:00.000-08:00

Reworking a scene from scratch.

Foxes: everywhere there is bacon.

2010-12-12T20:48:00.001-08:00

Castle of the Arch Druid

2010-11-30T20:30:00.001-08:00

New pages

2010-11-28T12:21:00.000-08:00

Some samples of the new book.

Vascular madness

2010-11-19T19:04:00.001-08:00

This is a sample of what I have been working on. The inking is going much slower than I expected, but I do like the results.

Mountain God

2010-10-23T10:05:00.000-07:00

My first attempts at the ally of the mountain. Making him out of rock is not very original so I may rethink it.

Queer Press Grant

2010-10-19T23:07:00.000-07:00

There were a record number of applicants for the annual Prism Comics Queer Press Grant so I did not think I had a chance but it turns out that I tied with a new lesbian cartoonist named JT Ford who is amazing. I shudder to think what she will accomplish in the years to come. I also have conflicting emotions for my friends who also applied... it is a small community and I feel pangs of emotion for them, but I also know that they will have their day. I have been doing comics since 91 and I deserve a certain level of attention, my hope is that with the small number or LGBT cartoonist we can all support each other and any gains one of us makes is progress for us all. I am very very grateful for this amazing year of getting my books out and having support from Prism and Zan and all my good friends. I hope that my success, meager as it is, can help others live their dreams and our medium reach a wider audience. I am really happy thank you so very much.

Estim the old fashioned way

2010-10-15T08:32:00.000-07:00

Chaining up your slave boy and calling the storm spirit is probably not what Ben Franklin had in mind.

Storm God

2010-10-14T09:48:00.000-07:00

My first idea for the storm ally of the Arch Druid. Not sure if this is the way he will eventually look. I originally wanted them to all be enormous tentacle blobs, but the more human sexier versions are more fun and fit with my whole (it appears in the form you want it to) theme.

Slave boy chained up

2010-10-12T09:43:00.000-07:00

The Arch Druid plays with his slave on the mountain top.

Fearful Hunter 3

2010-10-11T11:31:00.000-07:00

Now starting to sketch for issue three of four. Opening scene with the Arch Druid and Tavius going over their evil plan as they watch the Arch Druid's apprentice get put through his paces.

Stag

2010-10-09T21:10:00.000-07:00

My Stag deity who bonds with Oisin. I only needed a close up of his face for the book, but decided to finish the sketch.

Stag God

2010-10-06T12:06:00.000-07:00

There is something so iconic about the hairy wild man with a nice rack. Mantlers always find their way into fantasy Gay pron

Tavius

2010-10-05T18:26:00.000-07:00

Awww, poor Tavius is so frustrated. He's not really a villain.

Lick like a dog

2010-10-03T20:11:00.000-07:00

Byron licks Oisin's wound. New territory for me which is pretty interesting since I thought I had just about gone everywhere.

New Panels

2010-10-02T00:05:00.000-07:00

Trudging

2010-09-30T09:31:00.000-07:00

Working my way through the panels I re drew. Every since Teleny and Camille I no longer see redrawing whole scenes as a chore but an exciting opportunity to reimagine a scene. It's still a lot of work but the pay off is great.

Gay tentacle sex beast

2010-09-28T08:30:00.000-07:00

I think this is self explanatory.

Byron the Gay werewolf

2010-09-16T09:24:00.000-07:00

Well, all the werewolves are Gay or at least total dawgs. I was thinking of using this as the cover of Fearful Hunter issue two.

Wild Gay lycanthropy

2010-09-15T10:42:00.001-07:00

some sketches for a birthday present for a very special wolf cub I know.

Gay werewolf love story

2010-09-14T17:42:00.000-07:00

Getting ready to start inking. Very happy with how the second issue is coming together.

hairy gay demon

2010-09-13T13:02:00.000-07:00

Silly pin up sketch of hairy demon with big dick. I am ashamed.

Comic book geeks of Seattle unite

2010-09-10T11:55:00.000-07:00

We are having a book and publisher launch party saturday september 18th at the bottleneck lounge in seattle. All you artists and comic book geeks please come and celebrate with us. Bring lots of cute boys.

http://northwestpress.com/2010/09/07/seattles-bottleneck-lounge-to-host-book-release-party-for-graphic-novel-teleny-and-camille-from-northwest-press/

Teleny and Camille review by Hayden Thorne

2010-09-10T11:28:00.000-07:00

http://speakitsname.com/2010/09/10/review-teleny-and-camille-by-jon-macy/#comment-3891

Farmer and the Fox 3

2010-09-07T19:37:00.000-07:00

That's it for these sketches. I think I'm ready to put them on boards.

Farmer and the Fox 2

2010-09-06T20:17:00.000-07:00

Farmer and the Fox 1

2010-09-02T15:19:00.000-07:00

Back up story about Shay and the farmer

Gay Druid takes it like a man 2

2010-09-01T15:51:00.000-07:00

I know it just goes on and on. Poor little Druid.

Gay Druid takes it like a man

2010-08-31T09:16:00.000-07:00

More of Oisin getting molested by the fire elemental.

Queer Comic Druid and God

2010-08-30T18:16:00.000-07:00

Oisin meets the fire elemental that lives under the hot springs. He can't help it if he's so popular, but twice in one day is a lot even for him.

Comixtreme review of Teleny and Camille

2010-08-27T23:01:00.000-07:00

The fine and fabulous Andrea Speed reviews T&C for Comixtreme. whoot!

http://www.comixtreme.net/content.php?615-Teleny-and-Camille&s=b31fc9dd1562e14e27b1d1556701d1ea

Azrael from Lucky Legendary

2010-08-27T17:22:00.000-07:00

Some fan art I did awhile back of that hottie Azrael.

Fire under the water

2010-08-26T22:01:00.000-07:00

Oisin meets the fire elemental who lives under the hot springs.

Gay Werewolves hunt for love

2010-08-23T14:02:00.000-07:00

Fearful Hunter, A young Druid falls in love with a troubled wolf.

2010-08-23T14:01:00.000-07:00

Gay Werewolves and Druids

2010-08-21T11:27:00.000-07:00

Another couple sketches. I tend to zoom in on the figures and show faces and bodies from a conversational distance, but I've decided to zoom out and show a little action at the same time. Hope it works.

Shay 2

2010-08-20T09:04:00.000-07:00

More of Shay the werefox. I'm almost done with the changes, of course now Im going way over my self imposed page limit. Oh well.

Little Looks

2010-08-19T08:33:00.000-07:00

Just adding some eye contact to strengthen certain scenes.

More Shay

2010-08-18T15:57:00.000-07:00

Shay works his own brand of philosophy.

Shay

2010-08-17T12:08:00.000-07:00

Everyone tells me that Shay is their favorite character. I have always liked the tricksters too so I'm going back and giving him a longer appearance.

Starting the changes

2010-08-16T09:10:00.000-07:00

After putting the book together and reading it I've already found pages and panels that I want to change. Usually it means slowing things down a beat or adding a reaction shot.