For over 45 years, Eldon Dedini has been one of Playboy's most recognizable full-page gag cartoonists. With a masterful watercolor technique that burlesques a broad range of subjects―from East and West Coast urban and suburban adult-hipster to classical Japanese erotic prints―Dedini's most personal cartoons rely on mythology and legend, evoking a bucolic sexually liberated paradise that leaves its reader lingering over the imagery long after the gag registers. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Arial; color: #424242}

An Orgy of Playboy’s Eldon Dedini (2006) (ADULT) : For over 45 years, Eldon Dedini has been one of Playboy’s most recognizable full-page gag cartoonists. With a masterful watercolor technique that burlesques a broad range of subjects-from East and West Coast urban and suburban adult-hipster to classical Japanese erotic prints-Dedini’s most personal cartoons rely on mythology and legend, evoking a bucolic sexually liberated paradise that leaves its reader lingering over the imagery long after the gag registers.

In 1976, a fledgling magazine held forth the the idea that comics could be art. In 2016, comics intended for an adult readership are reviewed favorably in the New York Times, enjoy panels devoted to them at Book Expo America, and sell in bookstores comparable to prose efforts of similar weight and intent. We Told You So: Comics as Art is an oral history about Fantagraphics Books’ key role in helping build and shape an art movement around a discredited, ignored and fading expression of Americana. It includes appearances by Chris Ware, Art Spiegelman, Harlan Ellison, Stan Lee, Daniel Clowes, Frank Miller, and more.

Gahan Wilson is among the most popular, widely-read and beloved cartoonists in the history of the medium, whose career spans the second half of the 20th century. His work has been seen by hundreds of millions of people in the pages of Playboy, The New Yorker, Punch, The National Lampoon and many other magazines. He is revered for his playfully sinister take on childhood, adulthood, men, women - and monsters. This three-volume set contains every cartoon Wilson ever drew for Playboy, along with all his prose fiction and text-and-art features.

Rand Holmes’ life story is richly illustrated with drawings, comic strips, watercolors, and paintings that span his whole career, from the hot rod cartoons he drew as a teenager, dozens of covers for the Georgia Straight, pornographic cartoons for the sex tabloid Vancouver Star, to complete comic stories from Slow Death Funnies, Dope Comix, All Canadian Beaver, Death Rattle, Grateful Dead Comix, and many more. The full-length Harold Hedd comic novels, Wings Over Tijuana and Hitler’s Cocaine are reprinted in their entirety together for the first time. This unique collection of art documents a lifetime of work by one of the most talented artists of his generation.

"This alphabetically arranged dictionary of artists known to have produced works depicting sexual imagery profiles the artists from ancient times to the present. Each entry offers biographical information, including the artist's name and any variants, birth and death dates, geographic focus, a description of the artist's media, training and the nature of their artistic output"--Provided by publisher.