Dirty Drawings: Raise the Pole
by: Justin HallDirty Drawings: Raise the Pole collects a series of drawings that Justin Hall created as rewards for the Kickstarter campaign for the Hard to Swallow anthology. Sexy, whimsical, and gorgeous, this series of pinups will delight your brain as well as your nether regions.
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Justin Hall is a San Francisco-based cartoonist and educator. He created the comics series True Travel Tales, Glamazonia, and Hard To Swallow (with Dave Davenport), with his work also appearing in such places as the Houghton Mifflin Best American Comics, Best Erotic Comics, QU33R, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. He is the editor of No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics, which won a Lambda Literary Award and received an Eisner Award nomination and is now being adapted into a documentary film. Hall has curated shows of comics art at the S.F. Cartoon Art Museum and the Schwules (Gay) Museum in Berlin, helped create the Artists’ Area at the Folsom Street Fair, and is the co-organizer of the Queers & Comics conference. He has been on the boards of the nonprofits Prism Comics (supporting LGBTQ comics) and Our Books (supporting Cambodian comics), and has done academic writing on comics for the Routledge and Cambridge presses. He is an Assistant Professor of Comics at the California College of the Arts, and a Fulbright Scholar. Find out more at justinhallcomics.com.
Dirty Drawings: Raise the Pole collects a series of drawings that Justin Hall created as rewards for the Kickstarter campaign for the Hard to Swallow anthology. Sexy, whimsical, and gorgeous, this series of pinups will delight your brain as well as your nether regions.
Publish Date: 2016
Page Count: 16
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