The Artist Goes Shopping
Some of the wonderful art supplies at Carter Sexton. For more of my photographs, follow me on Instagram.
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I Am Team Charles
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The Reverse Cowgirl Interviews the Dick Lazers Guys
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In my first installment of The Reverse Cowgirl Interview series, I interviewed the young masterminds behind the penis laser that was purportedly involved in that fight Jamie Foxx and Jackass franchise-related individuals got into at the Beverly Hills restaurant Mr. Chow. Read it here and subscribe.
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RIP David Lynch
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Books I Read: Parasitic City #0.1
Parasitic City #0.1 is a total insane, very extreme comic book by Shintaro Kago. As I wrote in my newsletter: “it’s for anyone with an amputee fetish, a bio-clothing fetish, a bio-furniture fetish, a bio-prosthesis fetish, or a bio-firearm fetish.” There’s a woman, and a war, and copulating chairs. It’s sci-fi meets hentai. It’s weird.
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The Reverse Cowgirl Roundup for the Week of January 13
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In this edition of The Reverse Cowgirl Roundup: things heat up on the beach in Fort Lauderdale, a sex worker breaks down “romance labor,” a former adult star reveals her most intimate procedures, a lauded lenswoman gets censored, and more. Hit the Subscribe button to get all the sex news that’s fit to print in your inbox.
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Life in L.A. (Smoke)
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Books I Read: Ten Days in a Mad-House: A Graphic Adaptation
Ten Days in a Mad-House: A Graphic Adaptation, written by Brad Ricca, illustrated by Courtney Sieh, and based on the book by Nellie Bly, is an absolutely astonishing work that brings to life the terror, shame, and seemingly inescapable horror of being trapped in an abusive system. I’ve read the original Ten Days and I’m an investigative journalist, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. This book is a masterful adaptation of an original work as imaginative and evocative as the graphic adaptation of Paul Auster’s City of Glass. Sieh’s illustrations are especially moving, as she conjures up the faces of the women trapped in the asylum’s hell.
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What I'm Listening To (Prince)
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Eat Me
I’m so happy to live in Los Angeles, where I can eat incredible food. A few of the wonderful things I’ve eaten as of late, from left to right: 1) the biscuit breakfast sandwich with bacon at Calabama in Hollywood, 2) the spinach and cheese borekas at Borekas in Sherman Oaks (they also have a location in Van Nuys), 3) the mangu at El Bacano in North Hollywood, 4) the protein omelette at Clark Street Diner in Franklin Village.
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Books I Read: Peepland
I didn’t care much for Peepland, which was written by Christa Faust and illustrated by Gary Phillips and Andrea Camerini. I felt like the story was all over the place and a bit hard to follow. But more importantly I largely bought it for the peep show setting, and the peep show world ended up mostly being set dressing. Pretty much everyone dies in the end. I guess I would’ve preferred something more illuminating of that world.
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Fire smoke hangs over the 101 Freeway on a windy day. For more of my photographs, follow me on Instagram.
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Books I Read: The Structure Is Rotten, Comrade
I picked up a copy of The Structure Is Rotten, Comrade by Viken Berberian and Yann Kebbi because I thought the art was dazzling. And it is. The colors are arresting, the strokes are aggressive, and the pictures soar across the page. I’m also interested in Brutalism, with which this graphic novel (which it isn’t, exactly) concerns itself. But the first third features a woman whose sole role is to have giant tits and act like an idiot. When you’re a woman reading this book and this is all you see of yourself, it gets boring. Maybe do better, guys.
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All About the Girl
In the latest edition of The Reverse Cowgirl newsletter: a gamer and tattoo model is this week’s star, a curious Colorado stripper pole house is showcased on the news, adult content streaming is blocked in Florida, President-elect Donald J. Trump is facing his porn star hush-money conviction sentencing, and more.
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Giddyap
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My, My American Bukkake & My, My American Bukkake 2 Now Available Online
For the first time in many, many years, my seminal (!) American Bukkake comics are now available online. You can view them, plus read an introduction about their production and publication history, on my website here.
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Books I Read in 2025: Understanding Comics
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud was a reread for me. It was as inspiring, smart, and creative as I remembered. The only ding I’d give it is that because it was written sometime ago, it is less mindful about being inclusive of comics books creators who are not white and male than it would have been were it produced today. Other than that, a great read. It’s got me thinking about producing more comics.
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Girls on Parade
A couple mannequins posing on Hollywood Boulevard. For more of my photographs, follow me on Instagram.
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Reading Goals for 2025 and a Return to Erotic Comics Art
A panel from an erotic comic I created some years ago: “My, My American Bukkake Too”
2024 is over. Thank god. 2025 has begun. It just has a better ring to it, doesn’t it? In any case, when I was promoting my memoir in late 2023, I was asked what my favorite book I had read that year was and I realized the answer was: none. Yes, in fact, in 2023, I read exactly zero books. That was in part on purpose because I was finishing writing my own book, and I didn’t want some other author’s voice in my head. That said, it was a little embarrassing. I was a writer, an author. Shouldn’t I be reading books?
So in 2024, I decided to read some books and track my progress. In all I read a total of 21 books, which was a lot more than the no books I’d read the year before. So a win in that regard. But the reality is that I didn’t like most of the books I read in 2024. I’d chosen them mostly at random and for who knows what reason. There was fiction, nonfiction, memoir, self-help, one photo book, and graphic novels.
But my favorite book was what could be described as a picture book: Leela Corman’s Victory Parade. It was stunning and inventive and startling and arresting and wildly creative. In a way, I felt a little silly. I write words. Wasn’t I supposed to prefer one of the other books I’d read, with a lot of words, like, you know, Pynchon or Marlowe or someone like that? No, I liked the one with the pictures.
In any case, I decided I’d do another reading challenge this year and chart my progress publicly again, but in 2025 I’m going to attempt to only read books that are picture books. For example, my first book of the year, which is a reread and which I’ve already started, is Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics.
That title selection may hold a clue. The truth is: I want to create a new comic strip, which is something I haven’t done in some time. Quite a few years ago, I created two erotic comics about the times I went to go see bukkake-themed adult movies being filmed. Those comics are called “My, My American Bukkake” and “My, My American Bukkake Too.” And I’ve long wanted to do a third bukkake comic strip. So I think perhaps this re-interest in pictures and words is laying the groundwork for that.
All of which is to say, you can follow my picture book reading progress at BOOKS I READ.
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The Most Important and Least Important Things That Happened to Me This Year
The Morning News asked me and a gaggle of other journalists, writers, and thinkers: “What were the most important events of 2024, and what were the least?” Read my answers and a host of others at TMN.
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