Meanwhile, in another corner of the Marvel universe...

Now, Marvel war comics (back when there were such animals) weren't all about Sergeant Fury and his Howling Commandos. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, when Marvel started to expand, a couple of new war comics were tried out, Captain Savage and his Leatherneck Raiders (Jan. 1968 - Mar.1970) and Combat Kelly and the Deadly Dozen (Jun.1972 - Sep. 1973). Both had links to the Sgt Fury comic - Combat Kelly originally included a couple of Howlers in the lineup of the Deadly Dozen and Captain Savage starred as the titular hero a character who'd appeared on and off in Sgt Fury and was known then only as "the Skipper".

Now Simon Savage was an unusual character for his times, sporting as he did a beard and a moustache. This seemed to be too outré for those backward clean-shaven times, and Captain Savage eventually shaved (shudder!) while the comic's title was changed to Captain Savage and his Battlefield Raiders as of issue 9. Making the comic virtually undistinguishable from Sgt Fury obviously didn't help sales, and issue 19 was the last.

Still, in the meanwhile, readers were graced with this unusual male bondage cover (if you are a comic book cognoscenti, you know that "bondage cover" usually means female). Strangely enough, that comic where Captain Savage has to strike a temporary alliance with his Japanese counterpart was actually published in early 1968, several months before the December release of the John Boorman movie Hell in the Pacific which saw hotties Lee Marvin and Toshirô Mifune placed in a somewhat similar situation.

Dum Dum Dugan Redux

Sigh! So many opportunities wasted in the military career of Dum Dum Dugan! Like that time he was captured by beduin working for the nazi.

But do you think they seized the opprtunity? No. They just locked him up. To be fair, they already had an older prisoner in "a small, bubble-like bunker built secretly in the very midst of the unwary nomads" (how one manages to secretly build anything like a bunker under a tent in the desert is beyond me).

Of course, Sgt. Fury and the Howlers free everybody in the end! Yawn! This one was written by Roy Thomas, drawn by Dick Ayers and inked by John Tartaglione

The Court-Martial of Dum Dum Dugan !

Timothy Aloysius Cadwaller "Dum Dum" Dugan is one red-hot f---er. There, I've said it. And believe me, it's hard to be the hottest male item in a comic when you're always playing second banana to Nick Fury, the guy who couldn't keep his shirt on during World War 2 and kept getting into interesting predicaments when he became head of the international spy-smashing organization S.H.I.E.L.D. (more on that some day). But ex-circus strongman Dugan had one thing going for him that made him stand out (even when he wasn't drawn, as in theabove cover, by John Severin) - a big BIG moustache. Bigger than the much smaller appendages worn by fellow Howlers "Izzy" Coen and Percival "Pinky" Pinkerton. Unfortunately, Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos being a war comic, there wasn't a lot of male bondage going on in it, except when the captured heroes were being led to the firing squad (from which they were invariably rescued). Still, this one cover of the manacled mister Dugan being led away to court-martial is hot. Hot enough for me to have bought a second copy of this comic recently by mistake. This is what happens when you let your hormones get the better of you.

The inside of the comic doesn't have much hot bondage action, though. This is the best I could find. The issue was written by Gary Friedrich, drawn by Dick Ayers and John Severin, and sports quite a few lovely shots of Dum Dum Dugan's red-hot face and even one shot of him taking his shirt off (alas, not close enough).

Dr Faustus gets his comeuppance

I must admit I never cared too much for Dr Faustus when I first discovered him in the pages of Captain America 161-162. He was a villain using pop psychiatry against super-heroes, and as such was always a nattily dressed big, bulky man, but artist Sal Buscema made him far too teutonic for him to be hot. I can't say I remember anything about Dr Faustus' next apperance in Captain America 192, drawn by Frank Robbins (an excellent artist, but not known for his sexy bodies, male or female). And then came Amazing Spider-Man 170 and I looked at the good doctor in a whole new light. Artist Ross Andru made Dr Faustus into a real bear of a man (emphasising the fact that he'd only been seen in silhouette the issue before, and that was a red herring to make readers think that the bulky villain was Spidey's arch-nemesis the Kingpin). Whatever the reasons, Dr Faustus never looked better, I thought. Of course, the fact that he always wore a suit and tie made him even sexier.

And lo and behold! At the end of the story, Spider-Man left Dr Faustus in a hogtie! That was real hot!

Unfortunately, when one looks very closely at the image of the hogtied Dr Faustus, one realizes that his legs must be very, very long. Still, Ross Andru manages to make that improbable anatomy look convincing. Too bad the good doctor didn't get more time tied up, but then again, villains rarely do, in comics.

All Packed and Ready to Go

Continuing my exciting adventures in Photoshop! This one drawing I've had finished and scanned for some time but I was kid of wary of colouring it. The task seemed daunting. Then today, I bought a special comics issue of something called digital artist magazine which has lots of info on computer colouring, among other things, so I was very eager to try them. So - voilà!

Yes, it's yet another kidnapping fantasy - or should I say man-napping? The little name-tag is meant to suggest that the man works in some kind of store or restaurant (talk about "takeaway"!). I was actually a bit taken aback when I went to the United States and realized that many older people there not only worked past retirement age, but actually had to work to earn living wages.

This is a very sensitive issue for me. My father died aged 73, only eight years after he'd retired, and his last three or four years were plagued by health problems. That meant he only had five years at most to enjoy the quiet retirement he'd dreamed of for so long. When some government, French or British, wants to raise the retirement age to 67 (or higher - who knows? sky's the limit!), I have a strong urge to punch head of said government in the face. Hard.

Strange as it may seem, coming from someone whose fantasies involve tying up older men, I actually have a lot of respect and love for older people and find it a downright shame that they should have to work until they drop in any so-called rich and affluent society. So who knows? Maybe "Felix" isn't so bad off and is actually being man-napped by somebody who'll take him away from it all. Enforced retirement... Now, that's a thought...

Mature Prisoner

This one has a long history. In late 1998, I submitted some drawings for publication in Projet X, a magazine that purported to be "le magazine des sexualités hard" ("the magazine of extreme sexualities"). As a matter of fact, the mag was mostly about dressing up in military or rubber gear, indulging in fist fucking and rolling in mud. Models in the photo displays were mostly of the young and muscled kind. In my opinion, the best thing to come out of Projet X was Logan, a young French artist specializing in bearish and heavyset guys.

Anyway, one day, encouraged by my friend Thom Seck, a gay artist who was also a sometimes-contributor to Projet X, I went and showed them my work. The rest of the story you can read here, along with another version of the above drawing which was published in Projet X. This is a colour version of the original drawing I had submitted, and which I still like better. Hence the different title.

Home Invasion

Well, it's always a home invasion, isn't it? Or at least, very often. That's one hot fantasy, even if the reality of home invasions is not nearly as hot. But as you probably noticed, this blog doesn't deal in reality. I'm here to depict a hot daddy in bondage and his home being invaded is a pretty good reason for a mature man to find himself tied up, bound and gagged, and maybe tickle tortured a little… or a lot, who knows? He'll just have to take it anyway. He's no longer in control. His captors are.

A Long Time Ago, in a Galaxy far, far away...

Once upon a time, long, long ago, there was no internet. I know it sounds hard to believe today, but not only was there no internet, personal computers were just starting. There were no scanners. The best you could do to reproduce a drawing in a cheap way was to go to the local copy shop. Which is what I did with this drawing when I sent it, along with some others, to a magazine called Chiron Rising.

Chiron Rising was this wonder of wonder - a gay magazine that wasn't about twinks or musclemen but about older men. I found a copy at local Parisian gay bookshop Les Mots à la Bouche in the late 1980s and I'm still wondering how it got there. Anyway, to cut a long story short, I got in touch with the magazine and became a contributor. The drawing above was one such contribution, in a slightly modified form. Chiron Rising was a magazine about older males and their admirers, not about S&M, so I kept the kink factor in my drawings rather low. I have added the gag on the man on the bed, as well as the caption, to give some context. And of course, the colour is all new.

By the way, contributing to Chiron Rising was my reason for developing the nom de plume Jeryn. It seemed everybody in the mag had a pseudonym, so I thought up one, using a couple of letters from my real name and adding an ending that sounded English. At the time, I was pretty sure there was no such name as "Jeryn". When the internet finally came, I found that there really were people called Jeryn in the United States, not all of them male.

Rude Awakening

This one was made especially for this blog as I try and keep it relatively free of explicit sex. Not free of explicit bondage, however, but strangely enough, a picture like the above, which I find highly erotic, would not rate as porn in most people's opinion. Truly, all is in the eye of the beholder.

On this one, I have been experimenting with the colouring possibilities of Photoshop I had left alone so far. I've been getting slightly more daring, but it's still a far cry from most mainstream American comics' colouring. We live and learn.

Now, just so this piece of artwork can easily be found by people with the same interest in the… er… erotic, I will state the obvious : it's a picture of an older man in bondage, or should I say a mature man tape bound and tape gagged. And just so we don't stay in the English-speaking world : hommes mûr attaché, maduros in bondage. So there. Oughtta get me a few hits.

Ballgag Tryouts

I felt a little silly yesterday and scribbled those in my sketchbook. I like ballgags, they are my favourite kind of gag, I believe, and they are just great to draw, especially on a mature man. The one on the far right looks a little like J. Jonah Jameson, from Spider-Man, who's been gagged (and bound) quite a few times in his very long career (and if you don't believe me, just go look here). This one is for my good friend Dave, who loves ballgags and would look great in that lineup.

Stop Agism and Shapism - Tie up an older man/a chubby now (or create a blog about it) !

I've just been on a tour of what the internet has to offer as far as men tied up, men in bondage, captured men and whatever. And guess what - the men (or should I say "boys"?) all have something in common (that is, besides being tied up). They are all young. Young and slim. Or young and buff. But believe me, no one over the age of 35 ever seems to get tied up on the internet. At least on commercial sites. And even for the under-35 set, some conditions do apply, i.e. no fat boys. Yup, as far as the internet is concerned, when gay bondage pops up, it's pretty boys all the way. And believe me, it ain't pretty.

If I sound angry when writing this, it's because I am. The pernicious effect of that overflow of cute is to make men who aren't cute by those narrow standards feel ugly and undesirable. Recently, an absolutely yummy chubby tattooed papa wrote to me that he felt older men in the leather/SM lifestyle looked pathetic and that he didn't want to be a part of that - and since he'd just turned 70, he was giving up on taking part in the scene. Now, where can he have picked such an idea, I wonder?

It is true that many men express their preference for younger/slim partners, often in pretty insulting terms. But there are also those, like me, who profess a liking for older/heavier partners. Why are we always overlooked? Could it be because we are supposed to be a "minority", not even supposed to exist, certainly not in our right minds ("How could you fuck a man who looks like THAT?" To which I'd reply : "With great pleasure.") But nobody has ever taken count, have they? When was the last time you saw a survey of gay men about their sexual preferences regarding age and body shape? Who knows what people might actually like when left to their own devices, without being dictated what they have to like?

Because don't be fooled by the attitude that says "we are only giving the consumer what he wants". The consumer doesn't get what he wants, he gets what he can get. Would the "bound twinks" sites really go bankrupt overnight if they were to feature one chubby model out of, say, ten? I don't believe it for one moment. And nobody can prove they would, for no site has ever tried.

For a number of years, a good friend of mine was editor of a magazine covering gay porn video. He made a conscious effort to include movies with Black and Asian actors in his coverage. Nobody complained. So what shall we call the attitude of the editors before him, the ones who never included anybody but white actors? It was racism, pure and simple. And when a site purports to show bound young men or tied up bodybuilders but deliberately excludes chubby young men or older bodybuilders, then said site is agist or shapist.

The lack of images of older men in bondage on the web has been the main reason for me creating this blog and reviving a neat Yahoo group called OlderMenBoundAndGagged under the new name MatureMenBoundAndGagged (look it up!) This last one has been a huge success and there would probably be even more members if some people weren't too dumb to understand that when I ask an age statement for admittance in the group, I mean it.

Empowerment is not something you can buy. This is a call to arms. If you feel there's nothing for you on the net, create something. If you agree with what I wrote, do something about it. Create your blog, your website. Stop relying on the half-assed products on the internet. Use the internet to make it more friendly to people with similar tastes. Or just to show that you're there and you count.

Stop Agism and Shapism - Tie up an older man/a chubby now (or create a blog about it) !

I've just been on a tour of what the internet has to offer as far as men tied up, men in bondage, captured men and whatever. And guess what - the men (or should I say "boys"?) all have something in common (that is, besides being tied up). They are all young. Young and slim. Or young and buff. But believe me, no one over the age of 35 ever seems to get tied up on the internet. At least on commercial sites. And even for the under-35 set, some conditions do apply, i.e. no fat boys. Yup, as far as the internet is concerned, when gay bondage pops up, it's pretty boys all the way. And believe me, it ain't pretty.

If I sound angry when writing this, it's because I am. The pernicious effect of that overflow of cute is to make men who aren't cute by those narrow standards feel ugly and undesirable. Recently, an absolutely yummy chubby tattooed papa wrote to me that he felt older men in the leather/SM lifestyle looked pathetic and that he didn't want to be a part of that - and since he'd just turned 70, he was giving up on taking part in the scene. Now, where can he have picked such an idea, I wonder?

It is true that many men express their preference for younger/slim partners, often in pretty insulting terms. But there are also those, like me, who profess a liking for older/heavier partners. Why are we always overlooked? Could it be because we are supposed to be a "minority", not even supposed to exist, certainly not in our right minds ("How could you fuck a man who looks like THAT?" To which I'd reply : "With great pleasure.") But nobody has ever taken count, have they? When was the last time you saw a survey of gay men about their sexual preferences regarding age and body shape? Who knows what people might actually like when left to their own devices, without being dictated what they have to like?

Because don't be fooled by the attitude that says "we are only giving the consumer what he wants". The consumer doesn't get what he wants, he gets what he can get. Would the "bound twinks" sites really go bankrupt overnight if they were to feature one chubby model out of, say, ten? I don't believe it for one moment. And nobody can prove they would, for no site has ever tried.

For a number of years, a good friend of mine was editor of a magazine covering gay porn video. He made a conscious effort to include movies with Black and Asian actors in his coverage. Nobody complained. So what shall we call the attitude of the editors before him, the ones who never included anybody but white actors? It was racism, pure and simple. And when a site purports to show bound young men or tied up bodybuilders but deliberately excludes chubby young men or older bodybuilders, then said site is agist or shapist.

The lack of images of older men in bondage on the web has been the main reason for me creating this blog and reviving a neat Yahoo group called OlderMenBoundAndGagged under the new name MatureMenBoundAndGagged (look it up!) This last one has been a huge success and there would probably be even more members if some people weren't too dumb to understand that when I ask an age statement for admittance in the group, I mean it.

Empowerment is not something you can buy. This is a call to arms. If you feel there's nothing for you on the net, create something. If you agree with what I wrote, do something about it. Create your blog, your website. Stop relying on the half-assed products on the internet. Use the internet to make it more friendly to people with similar tastes. Or just to show that you're there and you count.

Getting the Password

Now, I know, it's been a long time. Please, don't mention it. Those drawings take time, you know. And the colouring takes ages.

Actually, as you can see from the date next to the signature, this is a somewhat old drawing which I decided to colour. The title is pretty self-explanatory. I mean, why would you tie up an older man in real life? To make him helpless comes to mind. And why would you want him helpless? Maybe so you could get some information out of him. The information used to be the combination to the safe but nowadays, it's more likely to be a password on a computer. And how do you get that d--n password? It will take subtelty, of course. And patience.

And a feather.