1 - Posted on 3/19/2024

Did Image really publish this? How the heck did this ever get picked up and distributed?

2 - Posted on 3/19/2024

This piece was in a featured auction that Bill Cox's Youtube Channel previewed and broadcasted.  It is a Lake Como exclusive variant cover so they knew mostly adults would attend the event.   

1 - Posted on 3/19/2024

I get that no kids would be expected at the con in Italy, but I still find it surprising that Image would publish it. Anyway, I still prefer Strips #2 inside front cover!

2 - Posted on 3/19/2024

Yes, but this is a vampire.  They have a certain sex appeal in modern pop culture (Twilight).  Besides, it's for the European market and not for the prudish American book burning types.  Image gets away with more violence in the US if you've ever read Invincible where every battle is a bloodfest.  Strips #2 inside cover and my lost comment still itches. 

1 - Posted on 3/19/2024

Oh, I'm aware about the vampire sex appeal, but given that Image is an American publisher, it still surprises me that they would go ahead and publish this. After all, the convention it was an exclusive for may indeed be in Europe which has far more liberal views on sex and sexuality than the populace of the far more prudish North America does, but quite a large percentage of the convention goers seems to be American. So I would've guessed that Image wouldn't want to take the risk that the comic may be seen by that one person who decides to alert Bleeding Cool News to it so that the story could blow up here. I guess they lucked out though, because this is the first I'm seeing and hearing about this cover, so I guess the American Comics News sites didn't get their hands on a copy.

1 - Posted on 3/19/2024

What news sites?  They have no teeth.  All the discourse happens online now.  Especially when Mr. Ride On drops bombs on your show.

3 - Posted on 3/19/2024

Yes, god forbids young americans EVER seeing a representation of a penis in a work of art (comics, classic paintings, statues...).

Especially young boys, obviously, as it would really be traumatic to them ;)

3 - Posted on 3/19/2024

Amusingly, it appears that it is glamorous for mordern vampires to shave their balls but not their pubis (unless it is a -gasp-pubis shadow?) ^^

1 - Posted on 3/19/2024

Hate to break it to you, but Bleeding Cool already did an article on the two covers he did, and there wasn't the pearl clutching you're expecting... https://bleedingcool.com/comics/olivier-coipel-blood-stained-teeth-exclusives-at-lake-como-comic-con/

3 - Posted on 3/19/2024

I'm not sure why you "hate to break it to me", André, as I'm the one who had a very cartoony, almost animation style giant penis deleted from my gallery by the CAF Gestapo. I'm glad to see that the news WAS picked up by Bleeding Cool and that, amazingly, it made no waves. As James Dornoff says up above, it's great that full male genitalia depicted in comic art can provide some wonderful discourse.

1 - Posted on 3/19/2024

It's all good, buddy. I might've read your tone wrong in your earlier posts. Damn internet. lol. I don't think I ever saw your deleted post - the stuff CAF allows on here, I'm surprised it was removed. 😮

1 - Posted on 3/19/2024

No, I only expressed surprise that Image would 'risk' publishing this because of the typically puritanical views we see on the North American continent. I have zero problem with nudity in art as long as it's done tastefully. Which, judging by so much of the hardcore xxx sex scenes posted here, is sadly not usually the case.

3 - Posted on 3/19/2024

They wanted me to remove a couple of pages of Roberto Baldazzini's Beba (surprisingly NOT a Frank Thorne page and others with huge penises on display), but I said: "He's an acclaimed artist and illustrator, published throughout the world, and I have placed the original artworks in a restricted room, specifying that it contains sexually explicit material. So where's ACTUALLY the problem?". They finally left me alone 😼

2 - Posted on 3/19/2024

I understand and share Ruben's amazement, but I fear that this is the legacy of the highly chauvinist and homophobic society in which we all grew up and still live. I'm not saying that showing some penis on the cover is the cure, but I hope that our kids are much less surprised or shocked to see it than we are. By the way, Olivier Coipel is a great talent and this painting is yet more proof of that!

2 - Posted on 3/19/2024

Even though it's not my thing, it's always refreshing to see one naked guy for every 5000 naked girls on CAF.  Coipel has an elegant touch with mixed media.   Congratulations on this thought-provoking piece. 

2 - Posted on 3/19/2024

Loving that comic art can bring such wonderful discourse.  Fantastic art piece, congrats on this find.  I really like Coipel's work and this painting showcases his talent well.  

1 - Posted on 3/28/2024

I step away from caf for a little while. Figured I would miss no... ahhh... big thing. Is it hot in here? Someone open a freakin window!!

1 - Posted on 4/22/2024

Olivier does such nice painted work and there aren't so many examples around. Congrats, both of the 'life drawing' covers he did were this perfect mix of sexy and elegant.