My bio: I am Dale Lazarov, writer/editor of chic hardcovers of gay comics filth. I have a theory that everyone I collaborate with has a little Curt Swan in them...
At some further length: These are comics pages by Curt Swan that show why he's my favorite comic book artist. Swan’s homoerotics (for me, at least) are tied into how he’s able to represent or allude to both distinctive and relatable emotional states, vulnerability and power, often simultaneously, in facial expression, body language, framing/mise-en-scene and choice of moment. And this goes deeply into the core of how and why STICKY, MANLY, NIGHTLIFE, FANCY, etc, work so well for me and for readers as gay romantic porn comics. Rather than keeping my Curt Swan page samples, close readings of his narrative technique and gay-gazing of his handsome, bulgy dudes between me and my collaborators and comixfriends, I've decided to share my scholarship of and love for Curt Swan with the internets.
Curt Swan has to draw several vertical-action panels (panels 1, 2, 4 and 5) so he chooses to render the two other panels, which don’t need to be drawn as verticals, in the same form, and varies the angles on every panel to keep them visually dynamic.
Fitting in all the word balloons in panel 3 make it the weakest visually but I wouldn’t really hold that against this page; sometimes, old-timey comics needed an exposition bomb or two to move a story along… From World’s Finest 142.
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