I go away for an afternoon to meet with the Gay and Lesbian Center Director and you guys start throwing around the ideas! ;)

Tell me more about this My Comrade... website? who runs it?

Butt Magazine I've had my eye on for the last year. Anyone know anyone there...? I've been told to write to the magazine directly. Maybe I should put up or shut up with that one...

I totally need to get paid for my stuff. The days of 'doing it for the community' isn't going to work for me. I should get something besides a hot lay from magazine editors... because at the end of the day, dick don't pay the rent! ;)

At least, not in my case... yet.

A long, long time ago I was approached by the art director for Out Magazine before I really knew what I wanted to do with my artwork... I could kick myself for turning down the cash. But at 21, publishing a zine, and being mad at the world can do that to you.

I was featured in Blue Magazine in September with the wrester piece, which has no woodies visible... so parlaying my illustration style into Flaunt, Wallpaper, or other edgier magazines I wouldn't be opposed to...

So besides Flaunt, what other magazines do you guys read that you think you'd like to see me in?

The reason I said porno mags is because that stuff tends to be much more fun for me. It doesn't need to be but it sure helps. :)

"Chemistry" which I did for Freshmen and they subsequently bought the rights to put it on everything from promo material to reprinting it for up to a year, features a hard-on.

Their policy was interesting...
Don't touch the penis, no penetration with the penis, no ejaculate, no piss, just nakedness. They provided a challenge for me to work within those guidelines and it's not a bad piece... it's a bit on the 'twinky' side for my tastes but the composition is nice and the colors are vibrant and it gets some of the more vanilla guys to look through my other work and realize there's so much more to sex....

*insert evil laugh*

In something like Genre, I could see their point about the penis.

I'm going through something like that with the San Diego Gay and Lesbian Center here. I and two other artists met with them yesterday to go over details for a group show and their main concern was offending lesbians who have rejected patriarchal imagery and systems, embarrassing politicians and people who give money, and causing an uproar with my artwork inparticular because it was about sex... which I then reinforced and explained that it was "sex positive" (and humorous at times) work - none of the characters I draw aren't hating what's being done to them... but that's me and my work and what it's about really.

I don't know if they'll take the ball and run with our proposal simply because I'm not a prude and they have to play with the politics of pleasing others.