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Belasco (cartoonist)
African-American cartoonist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Belasco is an African-American cartoonist, known for his erotic comics, illustrations, and animations featuring muscular African-American gay men.[1][2]
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Belasco began producing homoerotic art in 1991, while living in Chicago,[3] and published in small-press magazines such as Thing, Kick, and JFY magazine. He then created the covers for the first few B-Boys Blues books by James Earl Hardy.[4] Meanwhile, he began self-publishing erotic comic books, and produced regular erotic strips for GBM magazine.[3] It was in these comics that he introduced his signature character Boo: a muscular, sexually dominant, gay African-American construction worker in the tradition of Tom of Finland's work.[1]
His work has been featured in the Meatmen series of books of gay erotic comics. His short story "Punks: Featuring a Bruh Named Boo" was included in Last Gasp's Best Erotic Comics 2008,[5] and "Th' Flood Gates" was included in Best Erotic Comics 2009.[6] His work has been commissioned by the Black Wrestling Network, featuring original artwork based on existing wrestlers and fantasy wrestling matches between celebrities.[7][8][9][10]
In 2000, Cleis Press published The Brothers of New Essex, a 200-page collection of his comics.[3][11] This was followed in 2011 by Boo and the Bruthas from Magnus Books.[12][13]
He has been a featured artist at the Tom of Finland Erotic Art Fair,[14] and designed a logo for the Rukus! Black LGBT Archive.[15] His work is included in the archives of The Center for Sex and Culture, hosted by the University of Southern California.[16]
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