The Extremely HomoErotic Art of… Glen Hanson
(6 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Canadian born Glen Hanson (a.k.a. G-MAN) is an openly gay cartoonist and illustrator of homoerotic images who has been on the payroll of Disney and Hanna-Barbara, as well as Torso, Inches and Honcho magazines! He’s best known for his beefcake-laden commercial art and as co-creator with Allan Neuwirth of the comic strip Chelsea Boys. In addition to his stylized advertising campaigns, Hanson has also worked on CD covers and the animated television series Babar, Beetlejuice, Daria and Spy Groove (for which he received an Annie Award).
Glen Hanson maintains an online portfolio at GlenHanson.com
Be sure to check out the QueerSUPE Comic Shop G-Man Store to find books and cards by the artist.
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He’s done a lot of great work and his style may look familiar as his illustrations have appeared in a multitude of publications around the world including BRITISH VOGUE and GQ, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, NEWSWEEK, THE WALL ST. JOURNAL, MAXIM, FHM and VARIETY. Not to mention his oh-so-gay looking (with that too perfectly chiseled physiqued pretty-boy – I loved it, but I didn’t see it appealing to the typical straight comic book fanboy at the time) Bod body spray illustrated campaign appearing over consecutive months in mainstream comic books awhile back.
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He came up with the name G-Man to seperate the work he did to pay the rent (illustrating as Glen Hanson for magazine like Ladies Home Journal and Good Housekeeping) from the hunky fantasy studs he’s been drawing since his teen years. Unfortunately, his earliest beefcake works are long lost to some landfill somewhere becasue he threw them away in "misguided religious fervor."
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It wasn’t until he moved away from his hometown of Toronto to the Big Apple that he learned how lucrative his hot toon studs could be. Inspired by the beautiful boys of NYC, he was soon illustrating a line of greeting cards and calendars. His images "proliferated throughout gay New York, where most American advertising and editorial art directors are" and soon work poured in (Spy Groove for MTV, a line of Sex and the City Paper Dolls, even more adwork and the video for the Shiny Toy Guns single Ghost Town.) to raise his profile considerably.
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In 2004, Bruno Gmunder published the first hardbound collection book of his world famous sexy “G-MEN” images, the self-titled, G-Man. Glen Hanson’s “G-MEN” can also be found on the cover as well as inside Stripped: The Illustrated Male
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You probably recognize GManLA’s style from Chelsea Boys, the syndicated comic strip following the carefree adventures of three kooky roomates he illustrates with Allan Neuwirth. There are two collections of the strip, and has even been talk of an animated version of LOGO, but the project is on hold. Together Glen and Allan also wrote Wonder Woman VS. The Red Menace for DC COMICS.
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Be sure to check out the QueerSUPE Comic Shop G-Man Store to find books and cards by the artist.
via GlenHanson.com, GMANLA, about.com, Nightcharm and Morphoman
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01/02/2010 at 3:21 pm
nice