MALE DRAWING: April 2011

16.4.11

REX

MALE DRAWING ART BLOG : REX / REXWERK DRAWING

REX - American
PENS AND INKS ON PAPER – 1984

Cult artist who always refused fame and publicity. An absolute master of fine point drawings, he is the author of "Rex sex freak circus," "Undercover drawings", "Mannespielen", "Rex uncut", "Rexwerk" and "Icons". According to Peruvian artist Palanca, Rex is an “artist from the past, when the 60s and 70s ruled in forbidden but intense sexual encounters seasoned with oil, soil, leather, jeans, chains, motorbikes and some of the most handsome brutal male faces ever graphicqued”.

REX - American
PENS AND INKS ON PAPER – c1990

8.4.11

GENGOROH TAGAME
田亀源五郎

Tagame's personal website

Tagame's news and agenda

Gengoroh Tagame on Wikipedia

Gengoroh Tagame on Twitter and Facebook

MALE DRAWING ART BLOG : GENGOROH TAGAME DRAWING

GENGOROH TAGAME / 田亀源五郎 - Japanese - 1964
PENS AND INKS ON PAPER
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TO THE ARTIST

Gengoroh Tagame (田亀源五郎) was born in Japan February 3, 1964. His family descends from Samurai. He studied graphic design at the University of Fine Arts (Tama) then started his professional life in 1982 as artistic director. Having started in 1986 his own manga work under the pseudonym Gengoroh Tagame (田亀源五郎), Gengoroh Tagame became a full time "mangaka" (manga author) in 1994. He is today the most famous Japanese bara (gay manga) artist in the world.

GENGOROH TAGAME / 田亀源五郎 - Japanese - 1964

INKS ON PAPER

Gengoroh Tagame has become very famous by drawing hyper-masculine men, hairy and muscular, in total contradiction with the stereotypes previously in force in Japan, with their smooth, hairless and thin caracteres. In his own way, Tagame is often compared to Tom of Finland. However, his universe is much more complex, and often goes deep into Japan secular history and culture. Specialized in gay BDSM erotic manga, many of which contain graphic violence, Tagame's work is known for its masculine males and their learning of the physical and mental submission. This going to such a point, that Tagame's work has been publicly criticized for its violence by another manga creator, Susumu Hirosegawa.

GENGOROH TAGAME / 田亀源五郎 - Japanese - 1964
PENS AND INKS ON PAPER COLLAGE
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TO THE ARTIST

Gengoroh Tagame’s works have been seen in many countries. Regularly published in several Japanese gay magazines (Sabu, G-men, SM-Z...), Tagame has produced dozens of bara books, such as Jujitsu Kyoshi at B product, Emono, Shirogane no Hana (3 vols.) Pride (3 vols.)... He is also the author of a reasoned history of gay erotic art in Japan from 1950 to today (Nihon no IEG erotikku Ato, Gay Erotic Art in Japan, Volumes 1 and 2. 日本のゲイエロティックアート). Published in Japan, his work has also been translated and published abroad, in countries such as France, Spain and Italy.

GENGOROH TAGAME / 田亀源五郎 - Japanese - 1964
GRAPHITE ON PAPER
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TO THE ARTIST

Some of Gengoroh Tagame (田亀源五郎) books are available online in Japanese, French, Italian and Spanish editions (many previous printed material being out of stock) :

Do you remember the south island’ P.O.W. camp ? vol 1 (print - Japanes edition)

Do you remember the south island’ P.O.W. camp ? vol 2 (print - Japanese edition)

Goku 1+2+3 (print - French edition)

Gunji (print - French edition)

La Casa de los Herejes 01 (print - Spanish edition)

La Casa de los Herejes 02 (print - Spanish edition)

La Casa de los Herejes 03 (print - Spanish edition)

Racconti Estremi (print - Italian edition)

Short Comic (print - Japanese edition)

The house of brutes vol 2 (print - Japanese edition)

Virtus (print - French edition)

Wappa Jigoku / Oyako Jigoku (print - Japanese edition)