800 copies printed Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
A porn addict amateur who collects dirty Italian comics in an "animalistic" way, Gonzo applies a conservative technique whereby he hides these questionably viewable images within scientific libraries. This book addresses a widespread form of collecting that avoids the subject of the "arty" comic strip and instead dives headlong into obscene material and the viewer's experience of it. This mega-collection of pornographic Italian comics faithfully presents the genre from its sensual, sexual-phobic beginnings to its porno-violent shift, between the years 1985 and 2000. Voyeuristic and chock-full of thematic variants, from transgenderism and homoeroticism to fairy tale, zombie, and cyber porn. Gonzo is a research-book on Italian erotic-porn comics. It is the immersive and amateur technique that the authors have chosen to tackle a type of publishing, that of the erotic-porn comic, which although poor and low, has a sensual carto-aesthetic and a high collectability rate. Gonzo is also a person, the amateur porn addict almost always a man who collects and consumes these enjoyable objects in an "animal" way. This book tries to tell a lost panorama; it does not speak of the recognized comic strip but of the "gonzo" comic as a reader-amateur, which possesses and consumes the object with its "desiring authoriality", keeps the numbers hiding them among serious books. It is a mega collection of this porno-comic shop, a true so-called pioneering genre of "dirty" Italian comics. fantasy-horror-proletarian that moves from its itchy and spicy beginnings then sensual then erotic then sexophobic up to the porno-violent drift. The book collects a visual selection of comics, essays-texts, displays that contributed to the development of the research and a final summary of all the comics collected for the artistic-editorial operation.
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