BEST EROTIC COMICS 2008

Best Erotic Comics #1

by Greta Christina

A literary and artistic exploration of human sexuality -- and a fun dirty book, featuring today's smartest, raunchiest, funniest, filthiest, most beautiful, and most arousing adult comics! Best Erotic Comics 2008 smashes the divide between literary/art comics and adult comics by including both the hottest work from the literary/art comics world -- and the highest-quality work from the adult comics world. Artists include Daniel Clowes, Phoebe Gloeckner, Gilbert Hernandez, Michael Manning, Toshio Saeki, Colleen Coover, Ellen Forney, and many others. The wide variety includes work that's kinky and vanilla, sweet and perverse, and straight, lesbian, and gay. Features recent comics, a handful of vintage Hall of Fame gems -- and some works never published before! Color and b&w. Work Belasco, Marzia Borino & Mauro Balloni, Susannah Breslin, Katie Carmen, Cephalopod Products, Daniel Clowes, Vince Coleman, Colleen Coover, John Cuneo, Dave Davenport, El Bute, Jessica Fink, Ellen Forney, Phoebe Gloeckner, Daphne Gottlieb and Diane DiMassa, Justin Hall, Gilbert Hernandez, Molly Kiely, Ralf Konig, Dale Lazarov & Steve MacIsaac, Michael Manning, Erika Moen, Quinn, Sandez Rey, Trina Robbins, Toshio Saeki, and Dori Seda. Cover art by Ellen Forney.

Genres: Comics, Erotica, Graphic Novels, Sexuality, Anthologies

200 pages, Paperback

First published February 6, 2007

About the author

Greta Christina has been writing professionally since 1989, on topics including atheism, sexuality and sex-positivity, LGBT issues, politics, culture, and whatever crosses her mind. She is on the speakers's bureaus of the Secular Student Alliance and the Center for Inquiry. She is editor of the "Best Erotic Comics" anthology series, and of "Paying For It: A Guide by Sex Workers for Their Clients." Her writing has appeared in multiple magazines and newspapers, including Ms., Penthouse, Chicago Sun-Times, On Our Backs, and Skeptical Inquirer, and numerous anthologies, including "Everything You Know About God Is Wrong" and three volumes of "Best American Erotica." She lives in San Francisco with her wife, Ingrid.

Reviews

[Jessi MotherFucking Ross · Rating 5 out of 5]

i always have enjoyed sexy comics, but it would rarely do it for me. this book is truly a collection of the best erotic comics. a lot of shit seriously turned me on!

[Samantha · Rating 3 out of 5]

Artistically this is a great assemblage of a variety of styles which is interesting, beautiful and very enjoyable. Some of the depictions are not my taste and some are down right (IMO) gross. But, jedem das seine or each her own.

[Katrina · Rating 4 out of 5]

loved this except the really offensive weird pictures in the middle of young asian girls getting tortured... that part was disgusting.

[StrictlySequential · Rating 4 out of 5]

There are many countries involved but there is no creator section to tell me exactly where they are all from.

This is nearly *****. An excellent selection of stories and art that is difficult to believe that they all came out in the same year.

[Vivian · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good

[kubby]

okay, so this is the first volume of this book and it even has a disclaimer about picking out what to include. but i must say that there are some older comics, like pheobe gloekner's which i think is from the late seventies. there is however a call for submissions in the back so hopefully 2009 will have more recent works.
i like some of the comics to varying degrees, others i could have done without.

[Dawn · Rating 2 out of 5]

I really liked that the comics were about couples of all sexual orientations. Only a few I found to be personally erotic. Some were just disturbing. Not what I anticipated, but still entertaining. :)

[Joel · Rating 3 out of 5]

some of the stories were better than others, granted, but it was fun to see what's going on these days...