Queerville

by Tom Bouden

Tom Bouden's real-life stories - enchanting and always sexy!

Very libertine contents in a "Tintin" style as sweet as can be - that's Tom Bouden's speciality. Last year the artist celebrated a huge hit with DAVID & JONATHAN - now comes the unoffi cial sequel to the Belgian happy-go-lucky tales with new ones from QUEERVILLE. Bouden's stories are intelligent, sexy and as always close to real life!

Genres: Fiction, Queer, Comics

80 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 2007

About the author

For 15 years Belgian artist Tom Bouden is a sought-after artist for gay comics, although he doesn’t want to be pigeonholed into this one genre. He has written plays, manuscripts for television shows and even the Walt Disney Company has come calling! Following the success of DAVID & JONATHAN, QUEERVILLE is Bouden’s second publication with Bruno Gmünder Publishing. Tom Bouden is born 1971 in Ostend (Belgium.

Reviews

[Martyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Three stars is reflective of the reading experience but doesn't fully reflect the merits of the book. I love the Herge-style Tintinesque illustrations. It's worth having in any gay comic book collection just for being a very fine example of an illustrator's work. It's the lack of plot which lets it down. This is a compilation volume of lots of short comic strips, a mixed bag of random scenes and scenarios, some of which are lightly amusing but, on the whole, nothing outstanding. It can make for interesting or informative reading, but without a central plot to carry you through it's not the sort of book that you feel compelled to read from beginning to end - it lacks any holding power. It's hard to really become engaged with it. It's not the sort of book to leave any marked impression - each comic short is too easily forgettable. It is the illustrations alone which give it any sort of appeal. The illustrations are explicit and yet simplistic and non-erotic at the same time. It's an attractive style but in a way it is not enough in itself and needs a plot to back it up, to make it feel really worthwhile.

[Ethan Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

Equal parts scatological and smutty, I found the objectively bad translation to be part and parcel with its rough and rascally charm. Fair warning: Belgian comics go hard apparently. I was expecting this collection of queer comics to be ribald for sure; I was not expecting castration, beastiality, necrophilia, accidental circumcision, accidental incest, puke shots. It's like you're reading a diverting little conversation-based panel about gay life and then surprise! It's a John Waters movie. Your mileage may vary!

[Jarrod Scarbrough · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a fun compilation of a web comic series. Definitely not for the prudish, some of the stories and artwork is sexually graphic. Highlights in the set for me were An Evening In The Park, The Towel, Things Not To Say After Having Sex, The Prime Of His Life, The Lexicon of Gayspeak. My main criticism is that this was initially written, I believe, in German, and the translation was not the greatest. Overall, a fun, quick guilty pleasure to read!

[Adam Dunn · Rating 2 out of 5]

I keep buying these gay comics and not reading them. I've decided to try to make a dent in my collection.

This book is cute enough, some of the ideas made me smile, none made me laugh out loud.

The drawings were good, the English translation was poor. I assume this was originally published in German, but if not, whoever wrote it was not an expert, there is an error on almost every page, sometimes during the punch line.

I nice waste of time for an hour I suppose.