Interview With The Erotic Cartoonist III - May 2023

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Hello watchers!  I've received so many fantastic questions this month, and I'm really excited to dive into them. Let’s go!  Oh, wait, I have the power, I've captured a ray of sunshine :D

Some behind the scenes questions...

What might have been?  That is, what other ideas have you had for your comics that for one reason or another you didn't pursue?

Oh, that's a great question. Before the "Anne-Marie" series, I had several ideas for other comic projects that unfortunately didn't come to fruition. There were some short stories and collaborative projects, as well as older childhood comics about warrior princesses and magical girls. But let's talk about some of the adult comic projects that I worked on.

One of my beloved attempts at comics was called "Dark BCN" or "Death Kiss". I spent several months, in fact, two years working on this project. I created the characters and wrote the script for the series. It was a crime genre story with some erotic elements, but not  explicit. The main character was Holiday, a young woman with a mysterious past who assisted detective Blamer in solving the murders of some prostitutes who had taken an unknown drug called "Death Kiss".

The story had a lot of humor, but it was also very tough and tackled some heavy issues, particularly the issue of child prostitution. The story was so hard and intense that I eventually collapsed.

Then, there was the time when an erotic publishing house asked me to do an erotic comic for their magazine. At the time, I was really into writing short erotic tales, so I thought, why not try my hand at an erotic comic? My first idea was about a female internet user who had cybersex because her real life was very boring. She was married to a rich magnate who ignored her, and she became very shameless and perverse with her victims on the web. But then she met a more perverse guy and decided to meet him in real life.  However, I found the story too dramatic and sad, so I decided not to pursue it.

So after my previous projects, I decided to take a turn towards comedy and came up with "Xpace Agent Afrodita." It's a story set on an Amazon Planet where only gorgeous ladies live, and their queen, "Gran Mamy" (Big Mum) is a plump woman whose job is to give birth to the population. Anyway, she orders a mission to Earth to find this "fuel" that allows her to keep up with her baby-making duties. That's where Afrodita comes in - she's been specially trained for the job, so she travels to Earth to get the "fuel".  And, well, you can probably guess what that "fuel" is and how Afrodita manages to get it from the male humans.

But the story doesn't end there - there's also this CIA agent who's been following Afrodita's every move, and of course, he falls head over heels for her. It's all quite funny, but sadly, Afrodita dies prematurely. You know, Jezzabel showed up on that stormy night and wiped out all my older characters.

Deleted scenes of Erotic Anne-Marie comics.

I ended up deleting two pages that I had already drawn and inked for issue 3 'The Binge'. The scene just felt loose and didn't add anything interesting to the story. As one of my old art teachers used to say, 'less is more'. So, I try to keep that in mind when I'm working on my comics. Those two pages were basically about Anne going to the village with Chamberlain and getting excited by the villagers. When she returned to the Hacienda, she tried to get Jezzy to touch her, and she got scolded for it.

Cut characters.

So there was this cut character in my story, The Dutchman. I created him as a kind of revenge. You won't believe it, but once there was a popular cartoonist of gay erotic comics who copied my work! He took my characters and turned them into a male pirate captain and a monk. The beginning of the story was the same as mine! Of course, I reported him and he deleted the plagiarism, but I was so angry about a famous cartoonist copying the work of a lowly artist that I decided to create The Dutchman. He's a misogynist pirate captain whom Jezzabel wants to make a deal with. In the original script, there was a deleted scene where Jezzabel presents Lieutenant to The Dutchman as a gift. She's waiting for him in the captain's cabin and meanwhile she’s playing with some objects - you can imagine how she is playing with them. When The Dutchman meets her, they shake hands but his fine sense of smell notices that all the room is perfumed with scent of woman.  He's shocked! In the end, I decided not to include that scene because I needed space to develop other more important scenes, and because revenge isn't a good muse. So The Dutchman is only mentioned in the story.

Alternate plotlines.

Oh, yeah, there were definitely some alternate plotlines for the comic. One of the first changes I remember was when Jezzy rebelled against me. You know that scene where the Spanish sailors take over Hades and capture Jezzabel and her crew? The original script had Jezzy getting laid with the rude sailor and knocking him out with a vaginal hold. But then Jezzy came to me and said, "No way! I don't f**k with men!" I was honestly pretty intimidated by her, so I had to change the scene.  I’m a patient creator.

My hobbies and interests outside of creating comics.

Oh, I’m glad you asked that! Like everyone else, I enjoy the usual things such as watching TV series and movies, reading books, going for walks in the park, shopping, and hanging out with friends. In the past, creating comics was my main hobby, or rather, my life. But when your hobby becomes your work, it's important to find another hobby to enjoy without the pressure and deadlines of a professional task. However, I have to admit that I don't have a lot of spare time, although I am trying to be more disciplined and respect my days off and vacations without being tempted to work. So, lately, I've been really passionate about scrapbooking and modeling with clay. I even have some of my works here to show you.  Some Christmas cards and my witches.  Currently, I'm working on a dollhouse using recyclable materials, which is still in the early stages, but I'm looking forward to many hours of creativity and fun!

That's all for now, my friends! Can't wait to hear your questions next month :)