John Cleese and Fetish Superman
Aug. 5th, 2009 04:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
talktoolooseMy work got mindless enough this afternoon that I could listen to a CBC podcast. An amazing feature interview with John Cleese followed by a discussion about fetish comics drawn by Joe Shuster, original artist of Superman, after DC blackballed him for suing for royalties.
His fetish comic, Nights of Horror, featured characters that looked remarkably like Clark, Lois and Jimmy, and the book played an important part in helping get comic books banned and sanitized after a famous trial in New York.
The author suggests that while Shuster needed the money at that time in his career, the art does look like he might have had some interest in the activities. Was his use of his stock characters a sign of his approval for the lifestyle depicted or a revenge against his former employers? Or both?
His fetish comic, Nights of Horror, featured characters that looked remarkably like Clark, Lois and Jimmy, and the book played an important part in helping get comic books banned and sanitized after a famous trial in New York.
The author suggests that while Shuster needed the money at that time in his career, the art does look like he might have had some interest in the activities. Was his use of his stock characters a sign of his approval for the lifestyle depicted or a revenge against his former employers? Or both?
