Brumo Gmunder, the publishing house that first brought Mentaiko Itto's wonderful, sex filled gay manga to the US with an English translation, is teaming up with the master again and releasing large scale format poster book! The poster book will include 14 Large and 15 XL posters as well as 11 book sized sheets of naughty splendor.
Pre-orders are available now via Amazon. The book officially comes out November 1st. But, here's some tantalizing preview images to tide you over.
If you wanna see some seriously explicit art from Mentaiko, we suggest you look HERE.
Thanks to some wacky South Africans, we have a brand new, quasi-NSFW animated gay comedy series based on Roberto Millan's comic strip Squeers. Squeersfollows the lives of Neil and Artel, two gay squirrels living in the oldest cultivated pear tree in the Cape Town Company’s Garden. This might turn out pretty great. Cute characters abound and I totally adore the animation style and am more than willing to stick with the series and see where it goes.
Here's the official synopsis:
The support from the NFVF (National Film & Video Foundation) for Squeers will make it the first animated television show of its kind to deal with adult topics pertaining to what it actually means to be a part of the LGBTI community and how as humans we share similar struggles and dreams.
In this character led comedy, our two gay squirrels live in the tree-tops of the City Gardens. Their life is inspired by the pink lifestyle in Cape Town, South Africa, but the Squeers reflects the contemporary macrocosm of human life across the globe. Within the city park, our furry characters experience relatable struggles and issues, with extremely human problems, like love, diets, going green, figuring out what’s real and what’s not, the work place and where to bury their nuts for the night, all while trying to reduce their carbon footprint!
Squeers has a role to play to normalise sexual diversity, breaking stereotypes and through satire, we hope to humanize shared issues and open dialogues around basic human rights and equality. There is an opportunity, not only for poking fun at perceptions and societal norms and beliefs but through comedy and these anthropomorphised squirrel’s everyday lives; we are able to explore the "tree of life".
Squeers creator Roberto Millan adds, "Cartoons push boundaries, confronting relevant social topics in interesting, entertaining and often funny ways, Squeers was my way of making fun of what I observed in the community, a reaction to gay issues in and around South Africa."
Take a look at the trailer below. If you'd like to keep up with Squeers, be sure to visit their website for the latest episodes. Or, follow Squeers on Facebook!
Check out this adorable safe sex art commissioned by Brazilian HIV/AIDS charity GAPA BS. This art campaign used 11 artists in total (not all of which are shows) and was a parternership between JWT, Möve and Bernstein & Andriulli from NY, and Norte Art Agency. Enjoy!
If you are a Bear admirer, you are going to love the artwork of Italian illustrator Simone Borselli. Sometimes going by the moniker SIM1, Borselli's art expertly captures these large, furry fellows in all of their different shapes and sizes. Regardless of how you feel about these bigger gents, you can't help but to be blown away by the attention to detail in Borselli's work.
If you like what you see below and would like to explore more of Simone Borselli's art, check out his Website, Bear Website, and Behance!
Illustrator/artist/animator Polly Guo has stolen my heart. Her artwork often captures the most intimate moments in LGBT life in a whimsical yet romantic way. Well...at least the life gay geeks like me dream about having. These are the types images that drew me into Polly's rich and diverse world. But, in truth, Polly Guo's illustrations have no such boundaries. She is just as adept at drawing western themed graphic novels as she is at modern super heroes and cartoons.
Currently, Polly Guo makes her home in the LA area where she works on the beloved cartoon Adventure Time. In the past, she has done work for StoryCorps animated shorts and FoxADHD, including the This Week In History GIF series. She has also done comics and graphic novels for Archaia, Image, and BOOM! Studios.
Her list of titles includes Houdini & Holmes, a graphic novel series in which Houdini is accused of murder and seeks out Sherlock Holmes help in clearing his name, The Hair-Raising Tale of Gabriel Birdsong, Adel's Hammer,Morningstar, and the yet to be published Strongman and Pianist.Via email, Polly also added, "I'm doing a comic for Pam Buchanam's Divinity Reimagined anthology based on the Ba She legend. It's about a snake that's so big it eats elephants. It takes 10 years for the elephants to pass through its body. I've also boarded a Digital Graybles short for Adventure Time that's currently in production. It's about Death. Most recently I've done an erotic comic about a girl who gets taken to a sexy spa by her best male friend calledBen's Day Spa."
Polly studied animation at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. Though prior to that, she was mostly self-taught. Via our email conversation, she explains, "My first tablet was a small 4 inch Chinese
writing tool that we originally bought for my Grandma to write Chinese
characters on the computer. I'd steal art supplies from my public high
school's art dept and paint still lives at home alone. Some times I'd go
to figure drawing classes on weekend hosted by the local community
college."
When asked how to pronounce her last name, "I’ve heard it pronounced several different ways, so it doesn’t matter too much to me. My two preferred ways are “G’whoa” and “Go." I think I am going with G'whoa! It just seems fitting based on her talent.
If you would like to explore Polly Guo on your own, I suggest you start with her website Pollums.com, Tumblr, and Behance. Also, check out this great interview from Graphic Policy.
Brumo Gmunder, the publishing house that first brought Mentaiko Itto's wonderful, sex filled gay manga to the US with an English translation, is teaming up with the master again and releasing large scale format poster book! The poster book will include 14 Large and 15 XL posters as well as 11 book sized sheets of naughty splendor.
