Your illustrations regularly depict nudity. What exactly is it about the bare form that makes you draw it so frequently?
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I probably do so less than I used to, because my porn work aside, I usually include nudity when it's germane to what is happening. But it is just fun. The human body is interesting to draw.
Given the American empathy toward nudity, does this affect your work and what you put in your novels or what you print? Or how or where you publish it?
Yes. In my own forthcoming novel, MAXIMUM MINIMUM WAGE(out Spring 2013 from Image Comics), I went in and really toned down some of the more obvious, or arguably gratuitous, nudity in hopes of reaching a bigger audience rather than scaring away some more traditional retailers. So, yeah, it's a thing you will need to think of. I 've a prose novel I've wanted to write place in Hell, and the damned souls are bare in it. My agent really supported me to tone down the nudity in a book which was just text. I chose not to because that's taking it too far. Additionally , I tabled the book for now, but for other motives. But America is quite odd about sex and nudity. It is a society obsessed with the prurient but totally at odds with its nature.
Well now we have to inquire. Is it more fun to draw male bits or female bits?
Male is more amusing, female is more pleasurable.
Do you think anything should be censored? And where can you draw the line?
Yes. This is becoming a bit dark, but anything involving children. But even there I assume circumstance is everything. If you just described some of the items they've really depicted on South Park you might balk. But they can get away with some pretty unsuitable stuff because they're masters at weighing the scale completely on the comedy. I draw the line occasionally taking into consideration the marketplace. But in spite of what many people might think, I've only usually calmed down on particular matters. On the other hand, I did tone down Pariah. My first draft got considerably darker and nastier in specific pictures and I pared that back to allow it to be more palatable. Sometimes too much is too much, you know?
Can you feel ripped about the self censorship? Would a better compromise be making a censored version and an uncensored version?
Not really. There's a time and a place. If the nudity is a distraction and doesn't function the storyline it perhaps doesn't need to be there. But there is something to be said for alternative variants, certainly. I enjoy that kind of thing. It is having your cake and eating it nude.
Would you think non-sexual nudity should be censored?
It is all about context. I love to depict nudity, but there is a time and a place. So, there is no tough, company, solution for that.
What do you think of the Nipplegate episode and in addition the recent case of an Austrian museum censoring its promotional artwork poster of nude guys? Would you think this type of censorship has become more widespread? Is that satisfactory?
The New Yorker thing is in memory because our dignity . Sergio Aragones depicted bare breasts with dots for nipples in MAD over thirty years ago. And that is a magazine ostensibly for kids. So the fact that anyone was fussed over dots in the New Yorker is totally ignorant. And the redrawn version makes no sense at all. It's just not a gag any more. As for the Vienna thing, since those a public kiosks I think it makes more sense to cover the male pieces. If they were covering them at the real exhibit that would be another issue.
There are other unclothed art posters plastered all over Vienna, except they feature full-frontal female n***s. These were perfectly acceptable, while the male n***s caused a big uproar. Any ideas on this or why there was such a difference in reaction to them? Should only certain types of nudity be censored in public?
Okay, this points out a few things. First is of the kouroswere its nakedness,its youth, and, hence, its beauty. But what was the significanceof of male vs. female nudity. Some would argue that it's because female genitalia is internal (although these days, with some many women completely waxed, one could claim you are able to see plenty of the close anatomy), while men's bits are fully on show. I think it basically comes down to many (most?) Folks finds members kind of gross. Or foolish. Or both. What do I understand?
So there you might have it. The lowdown from two cartoonists and how they cope with nudity taboo, female n****e bulge and censorship.
What do you readers think? Is nudity censorship getting away from control as of late? Or do cartoonists still get away with a lot more because it's a cartoon?
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