Erotic Comics: A Graphic History from Tijuana Bibles to Zap Comix

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Early comics produced for gay and bisexual male readers often focused on sexual situations, such as Kake by Touko Laaksonen ("Tom of Finland") in the 1950s and Harry Chess by Al Shapiro ("A. Some of are about sexy One Night Stands, whereas others are about people finding love or enjoying the physical side of their relationship. Little Annie Fannie is a book that's drawn by Will Elder and follows a naive yet optimistic young girl named Fanny.

Since her husband, Robert, can't seem to satisfy his wife, he builds her a sex robot that he names Chester 5000. Alan Moore lives in Northampton, England, and is most famous for his influential work in comics, including the acclaimed comic books Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell. While the original story states that Hades kidnapped Demeter’s daughter to keep as a wife in the underworld, this version puts Persephone in control. In addition to being an erotic graphic novel, Allison Shaw’s story attempts to look at the original Greek legend in a different light.Erotic comics have always been there — like a sexy omnipresent specter traversing the space-time continuum. In the 1980s, Gengoroh Tagame began producing erotic manga drawn from his own sexual interests, featuring large, masculine men engaging in sadomasochistic sex with each other.

Consequently, erotic comics have sometimes been subject to criticism and extra scrutiny compared to other forms of erotic art and storytelling. In 2006 Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie released Lost Girls, an illustrated series of erotic art exploring the possible sexual meanings in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Peter Pan, and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

This comic is one of the most inventive when it comes to graphic scenes, making for a fun and engaging adult comic. Little Annie Fanny is a play on words, meant to take story elements from Little Orphan Annie and is a risque comic series that takes readers through various comedic situations involving Annie Fanny. Beginning with an exploration of newly liberated American artists in the '70s, this overview examines the gay and lesbian comics scene, current artists and publishers in Europe, and Japanese erotica.