INTERNATIONAL and HISTORIC HOMOEROTIC HALL of FAME NOMINEE:
Once called “the most influential creator of gay pornographic images,” Finnish Artist Touko Laaksonen (8 May 1920 – 7 November 1991), is better known by his pseudonym Tom of Finland. His extraordinary stylized homoerotic fetish art were a great influence on gay culture of the late twentieth century.
Tom of Finland was a prolific artist, producing over 3500 illustrations featuring heavily muscled gay archetypes such as lumberjacks, motorcycle policemen, sailors, soldiers, bikers, and leather-men engaged in the animalisticly fleeting intimate moments preceding or during sex. His hunky illustrations usually wear very little and what they DO wear is always nice and tight and generally partially removed.
At the age of 19, he moved to the country’s capital Helsinki to study advertising, where he also started secretly drawing homoerotic images for his own pleasure. Conscripted into the Finnish Army in February 1940, second lieutenant Touko Laaksonen served as an anti-aircraft officer during the Winter War. In 1945, he returned to studies at the art college, but later attributed much of his fetishistic interest in uniformed men to encounters he had with men in army uniform while serving.
His career as Tom of Finland began In 1956 when the conservative social climate prompted Laaksonen to use the anonymous name “Tom” when he submitted drawings to the influential American magazine Physique Pictorial. His image of two log drivers and a voyeuristic 3rd man was published on the cover and others appeared within the Spring 1957 issue, and the editor credited them to “Tom of Finland.”
From the late-1950s to the early 1960s, his style was definitely cramped by the U.S. censorship codes restricting depiction of “overt homosexual acts.” The outlawing of gay pornography by the conservative and homophobic social culture of the era forced homoerotic publications to disguise themselves as “fitness magazines” until the 1962 Supreme Court case of MANual Enterprises v. Day decreed nude male photographs were no longer obscene. The pretense of being about exercise and fitness was quickly dropped and the newfound freedom allowed Tom of Finland and his contemporaries to publish much more explicit drawings featuring characters with extremely exaggerated anatomical gifts.
Laaksonen’s vision was influenced by the stylized masculinity of the biker subculture that emerged after WWII. Prior to this era, society’s image of gay men was mostly limited to stereotypical effeminate sissies seen in Vaudville and early films. The art of Tom of Finland and his predecessors/influences (George Quaintance and Etienne) and followers both energized and commercialized an underground leather counter-culture which emerged after World War II and was most popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
The clothing, styling, and persona adopted by large numbers of gay men of the time illustrate the power of his work. Celebrities such as Glenn Hughes of The Village People and others who sported the Castro Clone look might well have just stepped out of a Tom of Finland drawing. Though the iconic leatherman style has evolved some since the height of its popularity in the mid 80s, Laaksonen’s images are still en vogue and appear regularly in today’s gay publications and on the walls of our bars, clubs and remaining bathhouses.
Not only has Tom of Finland’s work has been shown in a number of collections in museums internationally, inspired a documentary, and influenced leading artists of his time such as Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, Pierre et Gilles and countless film makers, but it has also been appropriated by a number of other artists to inspire new works. Most notably in the late 1970s, Laaksonen’s art graced t-shirts featured at SEX, a popular store run by clothes designer Vivienne Westwood and partner Malcolm McLaren.
Durk Dehner and Touko Laaksonen founded the Tom of Finland Company in 1979 to help Tom control pirating of his work. When the AIDS epidemic hit the gay subculture hard in 1984, the Tom of Finland Foundation was formed as a non-profit educational archive to catalog, preserve, restore, and exhibit erotic art created by homoerotic artists many of whom were stricken and sought ways to preserve their works for posterity.
Tom of Finland’s artwork affected his contemporaries and every homoerotic artist who followed in his footsteps. Without his body of work where would the modern generation of homoerotic artists (Patrick Fillion, Ismael Avlarez, HvH, Carlos Garcia, Glenn Hanson, Michael Breyette, Ian Hanks and Josman to name a few) be? They all owe a debt of thanks to Tom of Finland.
Except for his gender, age (37) and birthday (April 2 1972), little is actually known about the enigmatic homoerotic beefcake artist known only as HvH. His nom du illustration is not his initials but something he describes as a "game" on his name.
Email interviews with Nightcharm revealed HvH was a "well-known magazine illustrator and advertising exec before he remade himself as HvH, homoerotic Master of the Man-Bear."
Here are links to his published works – more on these below…
HvH’s men are often a bit meatier many of the subjects of other gay erotica, but his loving touch deftly captures the beauty of all sorts of body types – from twink to bear and everything inbetween.
In addition to fellow contemporary gay artists Glen Hanson and Patrick Fillion. HvH also cites a 1960’s Portuguese artist named João Abel Manta (”the thick outlines and the sense of design”) as a major artistic influence (which may be a clue to his country of origin). A traditional artist at heart, HvH sketches out all his images with pencil and paper before scanning and vectorizing them so he can refine them as line art and then convert back to bitmaps so he can add color, photographic textures and his distinctive shading with a digital pen.
HvH’s Blog is called HVHExpo, and while it hasn’t been updated in awhile, it is chock full of images such as the ones included in this gallery. HvH posts preview images of upcoming projects (such as 3 covers for Eric Arvin novels: “Subsurdity”, “Suburbilicious” (his Jasper Lane books), and “Slight Details and Random Events” as well as behind-the-scenes sketches along with the artists observations.
The past few years have been good for HvH. In 2007 Class Comics has published In the Blink of An Eye… a graphic novel containing three all new xxx vignettes featuring the manly men of HvH.
In 2008 was doubly blessed as he released two volumes. The first is a beautiful hardcover coffee table edition called Gone to the Movies – collecting HvH’s wilful new gay interpretations of famous movie posters. His second book of that year is the deluxe 24 page Class Comics Portfolios HvH. I’m not sure what if anything he’s been up to in 2009, the last entry at his blog is July 9 2008.
HvH’s art can be seen in “In the Blink of an Eye” published by Class Comics titles and in a gay superhero strip called “The Adventures of Link” at FRESHMEN (a preview page is included in the gallery above along with 2 earlier versions).
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
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.
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."
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.
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, Bruno Gmunder’s latest gay erotic illustration compilation book.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, Bruno Gmunder’s latest gay erotic illustration compilation book.
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.
INTERNATIONAL and HISTORIC HOMOEROTIC HALL of FAME NOMINEE:
Pioneer homoerotic beefcake Illustrator Oliver Frey (a.k.a Oli Frey, a.k.a. Zack, a.k.a. Clint) was born in Zurich, on 30 June 1948. He grew up fluent in Italian ( his parents hailed from Ticino, the Italian-speaking canton of Switzerland) and German. His family moved to Britain in 1956 but subsequently returned to Switzerland where he followed an American correspondence course called The Famous Artists during his high school years.
As a child Frey loved The Eagle comic and taught himself to draw by copying the drawings of Eagle’s artists. As an adult was able to fulfil his childhood dream by working on the revived version, drawing the strip Dan Dare. Frey began his carreer as an illustrator of childrens books and comics to pay his way the London Film School, illustrating for IPC Media’s Look and Learn magazine, including the strip The Trigan Empire.
Oliver’s brother Franco and Roger Kean founded the computer magazine CRASH in 1983, and Oli became the illustrator for CRASH and its sister magazines Zzap! 64, Amtix and The Games Machine. Many of Frey’s earlier covers featured seemingly random homoerotic images of bare chested youths that had nothing to do with the issue’s content. You can check out much of his commercial work here.
Oliver Frey is sometimes better known as Zack or Clint, which are noms de plume he used for much of his explicit work published in the 70’s and 80’s in a few British gay magazines. Oli Frey may be the most widely-seen of all gay porn artists simply because he drew some Superman pages seen briefly at the beginning of the 1978 Superman.
After years of drawing innocents, Frey found a new genre when he met Alan Purnell and began creating the Hitchhiker drawings. Originally the images were intended for Playguy Magazine but they ended up in Him Magazine, where Frey created his popular gay bad-boy hero, Rogue who combines "the mystery of James Bond, the passion of Cassanova, the exploits of the Marquis de Sade and the imagination of Tom of Finland."
Oliver Frey’s Rogue embodies a whole mythology of gay sex. Some identifed with his predatory nature and others identified with or wanted to be counted among his victims who were generally Rogue’s equal in physical appeal if not in experience. Frey’s extremely homoerotic comics usually show the reader attractive young men in sexual peril, either forced into situations beyond their control or driven to dangerous situations by their own unrestrained libido.
Frey’s work was part of an underground era unfetterrered by things such as political correctness, and there are some failrly hot if COMPLETELY politically incorrect subjects of which he left us with graphic interpretations. More on that in the Poll after this gallery…
Since the late 90s, Oliver Frey has been working as publishing director for Thalamus Publishing in Shropshire, which specializes in illustrated historical reference titles.
Although I’ve featured a number of his hot homoerotic Class Comics beefcake illustrations, I’ve really been horribly remiss in putting together a gallery for the prolific Patrick Fillion, so here you go!
Homoerotic comics artist Patrick Fillion was born in the province of Quebec, Canada, in 1973 where he was raised Catholic, but when he was 6 his family moved to British Columbia. It was there that he discovered his first comics … the Uncanny X-Men. He fell in love with the characters, but his inability to read a word of English inspired him to learn the new language so he could find out what they were saying. It was the beginning of a fanboy geeklove that would stretch from the X-Men to other comics and then grow to include fantasy, science fiction and more.
Patrick grew up reading and comics that inspired him to write and draw his own creations. Encouraged by an unprejudiced high school art teacher, he’d been illustrating the male form from an early age but it wasn’t until he moved to Vancouver that he explored and embraced the more erotic overtones of his work, evolving what was merely slightly erotic to full blown XXX erotica.
A natural talent, Fillion originally wanted to go to the Emily Carr Art College but after showing his portfolio, they told him he could already TEACH how to draw comics and sent him on his way. When Patrick was 19, he moved from a conservative town to Vancouver. Finally able to accept that he was gay, he began to learn more about his new community and immersed himself in the genre of homoerotic comics.
Patrick Fillion’s lifelong fascination with superheros in spandex led he and his life and business partner Robert Fraser to form Class Comics, a publishing company specializing in gay-themed erotic comics with a very unique stable of heroic hunks.
From Camili-Cat, (a sexy Felinoid bottom who can’t seem to get enough hard-core sex), to Naked Justice (a daring superhero with a minimalist approach to fashion and a very large and UNIQUE weapon) to the callboys of Satisfaction Guaranteed, Patrick’s Boytoons are some of the hottest and most recognized of our day and age.
In addition to his Class Comics work, Patrick’s illustrations have graced the pages of gay adult publications such as Black Inches, Latin Inches and Torso magazines. Patrick Fillion’s art is not limited to his explicit homoerotic works. He has worked on several advertising campaigns for companies such as: RSVP Vacations, GayDemon, FleshJack by Fleshlight and Ajaxx63.
As an artist, Patrick takes a special interest in the Gay community, and believes in the importance of helping emerging artists to find their voice. Through his blogs, Boytoons Magazine and Artistic License, Patrick continues to encourage new artists as well as established ones, believing in a Gay artistic community that is proud of its oeuvre and supportive of the creators it is comprised of.
Patrick strongly believes in Class Comics‘ ability to contribute to Gay Pop Culture in a positive fashion, and to create memorable Icons which are embraced by a community who can be proud to call them our own.
In 2006 Class Comics began publishing other Gay creators such as Logan (Porky, Demios), Ismael Alvarez (the Art of Ismael Alvarez), Max’ (Rainbow Country), HvH (In the Blink of an Eye), Mike (The Art of Mike portfolio) and Zan Christensen (The Mark of Aeacus) to name just a few.
I happened upon this story from homoerotic illustrator Ian Hanks‘ erotic comic collection of vignettes set in ancient Greece – Aegean Tales. In some ways, his work is more in sync with classical European comics artists than American ones which makes sense as this mysterious beefcake artist says only that he “was born in 1974, grew up in a rural area and is living in the Netherlands.”
It’s so hot I had to buy one myself despite the lack of an affiliate program. Here is the teaser I found at a REALLY COOL blog (Warriors of Fantasy) Their source was GToons (ALSO EXTREMELY COOL!).
His work (like that of fellow Handjobs Magazine alum Josman) focuses on archetypal daddy/twink pairings, but even if that isn’t your thing, the lavish illustrations, classical settings and wanton scenarios found within Aegean Tales are worth the $20 cover price for 77 pages and six smoking hot stories available online as PDF from HJ Magazine.
Here are a few more images from stories in Aegean Tales… The Appetizer and Bacchanal Boys.
Hanks’ Aegean Tales characters have a variety of body types ranging from hairless twinks to meatier men. Plots of his stories are about as deep as the usual porn scenario but fleshed out with an ancient Greek twist, slave boys, scholars, mentors, and of course horny pillaging warriors. Ian Hanks’ realistic depiction of the male human body is somewhat unusual in gay erotic comics. His men, whether younger or older, don’t look like mainstream over-muscled porn models, but rather like real albeit VERY attractive guys with impressive, but not impossible endowments. As with many gay erotic comic artists, there isn’t much of his work in print. He has been published in Stripped: The Illustrated Male from Bruno Gmunder and his online collection Aegean Tales from Handjobs Magazine.
Michael Breyette is a self-taught artist originally from rural upstate NY, a region that can “parallel the red-neck South.” As a young artist he often included female subjects in his science fiction/fantasy creations, if only to allow him the freedom to paint his scantily clad men without inviting too many unwanted questions from his conservative family.
His sexy, sweet, sometimes smutty, well designed and executed vignettes equally evoke Tom of Finland and Norman Rockwell. Be sure to check these images out at Breyette.com too. For each image he includes 4 detail close-ups too.
Michael’s artistic endeavors remained a hobby until the Internet allowed him to show his artwork to the world. In 2000, with much success, he started selling his originals and taking commissions via the web, and followed two years later with fine art prints.
Above is his Restraint series.
In 2003 Michael Breyette left his secure day job of 13 years to become a full time artist.
Now living in Worcester, Massachusetts, he enjoys the support not only of his close friends but also of the countless fans who have written to share their love of his work. You can join their number at his website or Facebook page. He even has a Calendar available.
When I look at this first EXCLUSIVE image from Michael Kirwan of KirwanArts.com titled Too Late the Knight, I can’t help but wonder if this is what really happened to Jason Todd before Joker killed him? I have to say I prefer his Batman/Robin pairing – it’s much less disturbing… but what heroes and villains would YOU like to see him bring his special touch to? If this first image is actually about Jason Todd, it could be the first in a series of memorable comic book battles that ended in tragic deaths (that were later undone)…
Awhile back Michael Kirwan sent us exclusive scans of some recent commissions he completed commemorating the release of a number of DC heroes on United States stamps. The first two were Green Lantern and Plastic Man and now he has sent us Hawkman and Aquaman to fill out the set.
And that’s not all. He also sent these dirty shots of the Galactor Troops and the following explanatory text for those of us who aren’t as enlightened as the fella who commissioned these…
Recently an enlightened art collector commissioned a few scenes illustrating the Henchmen from Gatchaman (G-Force Guardians of Space). These Galactor Troops were always getting graphically punished and humiliated by the heroes of G-Force. From shots to the crotch, uniforms ripped from stem to privates, and all manner of abuses were heaped upon these loyal Henchmen as they foot-soldiered their way into battle and the eventual comic defeat of the villainous group Galactor.
- Michael Kirwan
Some great stuff! He does commissions, I don’t know what he charges, but I may have to find out…
The Joans, the only band in the world dedicated to giving Hollywood icon Joan Crawford a rock and roll voice are pleased to announce the release of their debut CD, simply titled We are The Joans. A celebration of tough broads everywhere, the CD combines the band’s power pop and punk sensibilities with their tongues firmly implanted in their cheeks.
The initial concept of the band was ‘What if Joan Crawford had her own rock and roll band?’” says Davy Joans, the founder of The Joans. “We decided the band would be like her- tough, glamorous and larger then life. All of the songs have that connection, and we do our best to look and act the part on stage. Their debut video Mad at the Dirt (written by Aaron Joans and directed by Peter Neville of Image Control Unit) mirrors vintage Hollywood movie trailers and pays homage to one of the most infamous lines from the cult film, Mommie Dearest, adapted from Christina Crawford’s highly suspect, tell all biography of the same name.
Formed in 2007 The Joans include lead guitarist and music arranger Taylor Joans, Aaron Joans on drums, Jennifer Joans on vocals, Steve Joans on bass guitar and Ed Joans, keyboard player and trusted maid for the band.
For more information and to purchase the new CD visit their website at www.thejoansband.com
If you missed it in theaters and on video store shelves, tonight is your chance… Tune in tonight and watch Were the World Mine on LOGO at 9PM Pacific. Its a touching gay musical with Shakespearean flair and a very talented/adorable cast.
When his drama teacher casts him as Puck in his school’s upcoming production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Timothy (Tanner Cohen) turns in an inspired performance, whipping up a fittingly Shakespearean love potion with the power to turn people gay. He begins, of course, with the school jock — the object of his affection. Tom Gustafson directs Were the World Mine, an unconventional movie-musical based on his award-winning short film, “Fairies.
For me musicals are all about that moment where something about the combination of music and voices raised in song makes my skin tingle and the hair on my arms stand up. Were the World Mine’s beautiful score manages all that and more.
When checking the latest at the always fascinating Towleroad, I found this exceptional video for Grizzly Bear’s “Two Weeks” by fan and animator Gabe Askew.
Askew is from Tustin, CA where he works in Architectural Vis. The video took him four months of after-work time and weekends (he estimated it to be about four full work weeks). He also paints and does illustration work.
When VRay asked about the idea behind the story, the Gabe Askew had this to say…
The lyrics, to me, told the story of a relationship where one person is uncertain of the others loyalty. You get sucked up into the daily grind and forget to tell the one you love how you feel. They get insecure and worry that you aren’t committed. And the line “I told you I would stay” is like a battle cry for fighting to keep your relationship together when it seems to be on the brink.
Check out that VRay interview to also see some of his 3D textures and animatic images!
Phil Jimenez grew up a latch-key kid in Southern California, and entertained himself by creating his own little worlds, playing with his toy dinosaurs, and watching a lot of TV — where a lifelong fascination with Wonder Woman began.
You wanted to reach out and touch her; she was amazing. I mean, she was, like, six foot in her stocking heels, she walked around in the costume like she owned it, and she was just… stunning. The Lynda CarterWonder Woman turn was kind of big for a lot of gay guys I know. Some people talk about it a lot, the transformation of her doing it, spinning around, going from this dowdy, secretive woman and suddenly she’s this gorgeous superheroine. I practiced the spin when I was little. Probably because I was gay. I mean, I’m going to assume that it has something to do with all… all this.
Phil Jimenez moved to NYC to attend college at the School of Visual Arts (where he now teaches a life drawing course as part of the undergraduate cartooning program). His first published work was four pages in the DC Comics miniseries War of the Gods in 1991, but he first gained significant recognition for the Tempest mini-series.
He came out as gay in 1992 at the age of 22, and his first open relationship was with his first editor and mentor at DC, Neal Pozner, who was HIV-positive when they started dating, and was hesitant about dating someone younger and HIV-negative. Jimenez became Pozner’s caretaker until his death in 1994 and in the last issue of the Tempest miniseries, Jimenez dedicated the miniseries to Pozner, and wrote an editorial page in which he came out publicly for the first time. “It got over 150 letters,” he says, “including the classic letter from the kid in Iowa: ‘I didn’t know there was anyone else like me.’ Coworkers at DC were surprised to hear Jimenez referred to as Pozner’s partner at his memorial as their relationship wasn’t public knowledge.
Best known for his 2 year run as writer/artist on Wonder Woman, his work as the main penciller of the DC miniseries crossover event Infinite Crisis, his collaborations with writer Grant Morrison on New X-Men and The Invisibles and his recent work on Amazing Spider-Man, Phil Jimenez is on a very short list of beloved and gifted next generation Modern Age comic book master artists.
It is likely no coincidence that a large part of Phil Jimenez’ work is also related to these three works by Perez: Jimenez has worked repeatedly in several Titans-related series (some issues of the ongoing series New Titans and Team Titans, and the miniserieses JLA/Titans, Titans/Legion of Super-Heroes: Universe Ablaze and Tempest), was the main artist of Infinite Crisis, a sequel of Crisis on Infinite Earths and highly related to the historical limited series, and did a large run as writer & artist of Wonder Woman (as did Perez in the 80’s).
The two actually worked together on a few occasions. For Infinite Crisis, Jimenez was the main penciller, and Perez drew some sequences and covers for the series) and DC Special: The Return of Donna Troy was written by Jimenez and inked by Perez.
It was announced at the 2007 San Diego ComicCon that Jimenez had signed an exclusive contract with Marvel Comics. He will be one of the four artists to be working on Marvel’s flagship title, The Amazing Spider-Man, the company’s sole Spider-Man title, in which Marvel upped its frequency of publication to three issues monthly, and inaugurated the series with the “back to basics” story arc “Brand New Day” at the beginning of 2008. His first work on Spider-Man was in the Free Comic Book Day 2007: Spider-Man #1 (June 2007) comic book, with writer Dan Slott, which served as a prelude to Brand New Day.
Phil’s been nominated for Eisner and GLAAD awards, listed as one of Entertainment Weekly’s “101 Gay Movers and Shakers,” and featured in The Advocate and OUT. He also created the art for the first permanent AIDS awareness exhibit in the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry and had the good fortune to be Peter Parker’s hands, working in a scene as a hand double for Toby Maguire, in the scene from Spider-Man where Peter Parker sketched out his costume.
Anavar is another of the gifted Photoshoppers hard at work (perhaps literally) over in JustUsBoys Male Celeb Fakes 2009 forum. I first noticed his oh-so-hot beefed-up fake of Chris Pine and quickly dug through the whole thread for as much of his work as I could find. I contacted him to ask if I could put up a Gallery and he was kind enough to provide not only 2 more images that cannot be found at Male Celeb Fakes 2009, but also the following artists statement…
All of my work, be it nudey celebrity folk or my general manips/paintings/designs stem from a deep seeded desire, which I’ve held since childhood, to live in a world of complete and utter fantasy where everything is phenomenally important and spectacularly exciting, and everyone is beautiful and sexy and able to kick ass, survive explosions and generally be heroes! I can genuinely say I have LOVE for some utterly fictitious universes/characters/stories and I suppose that’s why most of my art and design work tends to be most easily classifiable as ‘fan art’ inspired by if not based on these little fantasies of mine. (Especially the naked celebs – who isn’t a fan of hot naked people!)
I think the gallery above reflects all his currently revealed artwork. I will be sure to amend this gallery as this talented artist creates more visions for us to enjoy.
In my quests for more MaleCelebFakes, I’ve combed through a number of websites (the most prodigious of which is the JustUsBoys forum MaleCelebFakes 2009 and their Male Celeb Fakes Archive) and discovered the work of a number of very talented digital artists who regularly create faked images of nude male celebrities.
MaleEroPainter is one of my all-time favorite fake-producing photoshoppers. His later images show his talent at turning simple digitally faked beefcake into true works of digital art, but even his non-painted images are artful. He used to have a blog, but it has since vanished and reappeared without its archives.
MaleEroPainter seems to only post to those forums as a guest therefore I couldn’t find a profile to contact. If anyone know how to contact him, I’d love to include a bio here (or something about his process and inspiration) as well as any links he may have to other online galleries or professional websites.
An interviewer mentioned that David’s exaggerated muscle groups seem to be more of a 3D satire on the commonplace gay obsession with muscle culture and hero worship than a realistic depiction of the hero/bodybuilder. Somewhere along the stylized images of Tom of Finland, Etienne, etc. than the more realistic yet still mammoth bodies of real competitive bodybuilders. “Not exactly real and bordering on comic art.” ManOfSteel disagrees (see his comment), but I have to agree with the interviewer – I think intentionally or not, this type of figure definitely plays into the collective gay unconsciousness’ fetish for unattainable ultimate perfection. In my opinion, the exaggerated physiques look just as impossible on actual real-life bodybuilders seeking to surpass what already could be considered perfection in an eternal quest to be bigger and better. I don’t think that this detracts from David’s appeal, in fact it is the seeming impossibility of his body that makes him interesting to me.
The creation of the online character David McAllister began with a Poser figure named “Michael 2″ from the DAZ site. ManOfSteel had a clear idea of an ideal face, and with photos by his monitor, he began to make hundreds of adjustments. Finally, he made a few custom morphs to adjust a few fine details to the body, face, and later the hair and then David was born – impossible out-of-proportion physique and all.
And of the few comments he gets from “non-fans”, the number one comment is always, “He’s too big.” He politely tells them that he is not too big. ManOfSteel made David for himself, and therefore he’s just right. That’s usually all he says because the concept would be lost on them.
Is the Empire State Building “too big”? Are the hotels in Las Vegas “too big”? Is China’s Forbidden City “too big”? They’re supposed to be big. Over the top. Peerless and without equal.
If I get positive feedback on these compilation videos I just may put together a NSFW gallery of David McAllister images, so tell me what you think? Hot or Not?
Michael Kirwan of KirwanArts.com has shared with us a couple of “exclusive” images (as these pieces are not on public view on Michael’s site) They were a commission for a collector and they have not been published elsewhere.
This pair of images were created by commission for a stamp & art collector to commemorate the release of the Green Lantern and Plastic Man stamps released on July 20th 2006.
The collector sent Michael some stamped envelopes to have the blank areas “illustrated” with an original, stimulating adult image themed to the stamp. He found working with the odd aspect ratio and around the stamp to be an interesting challenge. Thanks for sharing Michael Kirwan! Now where are stamped envelopes with Superman, Green Arrow, Batman, The Flash, Aquaman and Hawkman. Someone tell that collector his collection is incomplete!
I’m always interested to see artwork of heroic hunks so don’t hesitate to send in your own submissions to fanboi@heroesnhunks.com. I do get a fair amount of stuff, so don’t be discouraged if it doesn’t show up right away. I sometimes hoard the best work until I have enough for one of my megapost galleries.
I happened upon a thread on Newsarama’s forum dedicated to the 3D rendered artwork of Timberoo. He created these as a commentary on why you don’t see many male versions of established female heroes.
, Bruno Gmunder’s latest gay erotic illustration compilation book.In 2004, 
