Sex in Comix (2012)
Molly Crabapple hosts this short documentary about erotic comics and features many world-renowned comic artists.
Erotic comics have always been with us. In the 1950s, here in the U. S., there was a public outcry that comic books were corrupting our youth and the senate was contemplating putting a stop to publishing comic books all together. The comic publishers decided to self-regulate the content with the Comics Code Authority. In the late 60s the underground comix movement started publishing their work and selling through unconventional distributors, avoiding the need for the Comic Code Authority.
Although this film isn't rated it was able to show some of the erotic works of these international artists who had a lot to say about their work and societies attitudes. However, the one thing that I didn't appreciate was that the foreign cartoonists WERE NOT subtitle translated. I would have been interested in hearing how things were in Germany, Italy, France, and Japan, etc. It was nice to hear from Robert Crumb and his wife, Aline Kominsky-Crumb. Crumb talked about how his comix were an expression of some of his crazy ideas.
It wasn't just about pornography and sexually arousing or titillating comix, these comix also covered sexual politics, gay, feminist, and funny comix, just for fun.