How to Make Money Like a Porn Star

by Neil Strauss, Jenna Jameson

Claudia Corvette. From her tousled bedroom hair to her name–all the porn stars in this world take their names from supermodels and sports cars–she is adult entertainment's prototypical femme fatale. Her life is the collision of countless troubled–childhood cliches and grown–up wet dreams, projected onto her as surely as her videos project their blue light onto lonely men around the world.

From its first panel, How to Make Money Like a Porn Star draws the reader into the dark world of girls like Claudia, the men who fantasize about them, and the monsters who control them. In the hands of Rolling Stone writer Neil Strauss and illustrator Bernard Chang, this adult graphic novel weaves together black humor and blacker reality. Like all great American stories, it features humble beginnings, life–changing tragedy, stripping, abuse, implants, fame, addiction, bigger implants, abduction, gunplay, downfall, and even bigger implants. Not to mention a thousand shades of latex and L'Oreal.

Part parody, part morality tale, here is the truth about the porn life, its outsized visual splendor captured in a comic parade of doe–eyed centerfolds, its essence distilled in a story that will haunt every reader who has ever wondered where his next fantasy is coming from.

Genres: Graphic Novels, Biography, Comics, Graphic Novels Comics

128 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2005

About the author

Neil Strauss is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Game, Rules of the Game, Emergency, and Everyone Loves You When You're Dead. He is also the coauthor of four other bestsellers--Jenna Jameson's How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, Mötley Crüe's The Dirt, and Marilyn Manson's The Long Hard Road Out of Hell, and Dave Navarro's Don't Try This at Home. He can be found at www.neilstrauss.com.

His latest book, The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships, was released on October 13. The review in Grantland described it as follows:

"I want you to read this book. I want your partners to read this book. I want your families, your friends, your coworkers, and your colleagues to read this book. I want women to read it, and men -- especially men -- to read it. But more than that, I want you to think critically about it, about what it says about you and the world around you and your romantic relationships. I want it to inspire you to dig deep inside yourself and figure out what's stopping you from making yourself happy: I want it to inspire you to embrace and engage with love, in an honest and healthy way."

Reviews

[Sharyl · Rating 1 out of 5]

Complete and utter trash.

[Tony · Rating 2 out of 5]

I blame Dave for this......

[Subroto · Rating 1 out of 5]

Having read Neil's earlier book "Game" bought it assuming this brings best of 2 worlds together - Nick's crazy outlandish sense of humor and sequential art of comics.

Sadly this one's as entertaining as the worst porn you every saw.

Its not even funny !

Terrible !

Complete and utter trash - thank god i bought it at a sale !

[Pompom]

I didn't get it. Too much obvious fiction to really drag people in, too little structure to set the plot alive.



But there is wonderful attention to details. It's a pity the sum of great details don't automatically make a great whole.

[Alex Rodriguez · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice comic, enjoyable overall, but too short to actually have a nice time reading it. Went through it in one hour...