Life Imitates Art

This is a drawing I did some time ago (as you can see from the date next to my signature). I posted it in several places, including the Mature Men Boud and Gagged yahoo group which I moderate. That inspired my good friend grubber to try and create that scene for real and he did a pretty good job of it taking into account that he could only get hold of a much younger bear (but still very hot), that it's not really possible to cut shoulder holes on a rubber suit and that said rubber suits aren't really designed with just one big leg anyway. I just re-scanned that drawing for him as I'd lost the original scan and he needed it for something (more on that later, when that happens). I thought I might take the opportunity to post it on this blog especially as it's been ages since I posted one of my own drawings. When I started posting colour drawings, I thought posting drawings in black and white again would be a step backwards, but maybe you don't mind so much as long as I post something?

This drawing is also interesting in that it's another example of what you can do with an older man once you've got him tied up. Strangely enough, very often, for me, that involves tickling.

Bondage For The Big Man

I'm in London at the moment, which gave me the opportunity to meet with Heavy Metal Bear, a very nice young man (only 34! Boy, do I feel old!) who's into bondage in a big way (no pun intended). His blog Bondage For The Big Man is a nice mixture of photos, links to videos of interest and fun text stories. HMB told me he'd seen so little on the net catering to his interests that he decided to do his own blog to try and make up for the lack of attention paid to bears who are into bondage. It struck me that, without being aware of it, he was following the advice I gave on this blog nearly a year ago - "I you feel there's nothing for you on the net, create something."

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...