Today we are proud to announce the launch of our new series, Erotic Musings by Jack Phillips, on AdultWebcomics!Jack Phillips is a programmer from Montreal who has, in the past, tried to fill up his free time with DJing, massage therapy courses, book collecting and drawing comics about coding for his company newsletter.

In 2005, he took a sabbatical from computers to live in London (UK) and seriously learn to write and draw comics. Now back in Canada, he is pleased to present Erotic Musings, his first long-term artistic endeavor in sequential art.

When asked to describe his new webcomic series, Jack said, “each chapter is a slice-of-life exploration of sexual fantasies : how common people develop their erotic imagination and how it relates to their waking lives. There’s also a mythological element which reveals itself in the first story and will provide a thread throughout the series.”

“I wanted to bring this work to the web via AdultWebcomics.com because of the existing quality of the Modern Tales site and the involvement on AWC of artists like Jess Fink and Steve MacIsaac. Not a bad pool of talent to be associated with.”.

“Jack’s work is amazing and I am confident that his art will be well received,” said the site’s editor, Joe Botts.”There’s a great deal of polish here — his submission made my eyes pop out of my sockets — as a reader, you will be satisfied on many levels: the level of the artwork, the level of the story, and, yes, the dirty level, too.”

AdultWebcomics.com is a new portal designed to serve as a solid, attractive, and stable home for erotica and sexual humor in comics form, two kinds of comics that have been ignored by, or actively banned from, other webcomics portals.

Today we are proud to announce the launch of our new series, Progressions X by Stephen Greenwood-Hyde and Jeff Coleman, on www.adultwebcomics.com!

Progressions X is the erotic adventures of the denizens of Minerva City, a tijuana-bible spinoff of www.progressions.org in which the only constant is that the clothes will inevitably come off.

“It began as a lark years ago when I decided to draw a pornographic version of a short Progressions minicomic I had just finished, but it became a tradition where each new Progressions story would receive its own erotic version, each more depraved than the last,” said Coleman.
“Progressions has been running on Webcomics Nation,” he continued, “which has a ban on ‘adult content,’ but thanks to the newly-launched Adult Webcomics we finally have a home on the web for the basest and most salacious stories we can create!”

“It is our view that erotica, like kung fu, is best served with a minimum of plot and an emphasis on action and we hope to satisfy that requirement with Progressions X!” said Coleman. “We hope you’ll give it a look and pass it on to your more open-minded friends. Of course, conservative condemnation and cries for censorship are also welcome, as are complaints that Progressions X represents solid evidence of the downfall of civilization as we know it. That kind of thing always boosts ratings!”

The site’s editor, Joe Botts, said, “We’re really excited to bring Progressions X onto the AdultWebcomics lineup. It harkens back to the kind of underground comics that existed before, you know, there were Underground Comics.”

Progressions X will be updating weekly, with new installments of 3-5 pages every Monday at AdultWebcomics.com!

Well, we made it through our launch week (our launch week-and-a-half, that is, because I’m running a little behind here) with flying colors! All six of our original launch lineup series have gone live on the site, and I’m sure each and every one of them has given you that, um, special feeling. I hope so! I know I’ve been excited to see them roll out.

Shout-outs to some of the bloggers and other folks out there on the web who have been generous with the linkage, including The Beat at Publisher’s Weekly, Fleshbot, Zoinks!, Digital Strips, Blog @ Newsarama, Comics Worth Reading and everybody else who linked, commented, forwarded our press releases, or just stopped by to check out the site! It’s actually more difficult than you might imagine, in the conservative comics scene, to get a project like this noticed. We’re excited to have launched, our first week, into the top 80,000 of all websites (according to Alexa), maxing out in the top 30,000 last Tuesday! That doesn’t sound all that great, until you realize just how many websites there are out there, and just how young this project is! We couldn’t be happier with the response we’ve received. We hope to live up to the expectations and excitement of all of you out there reading the site.

I also want to send out my thanks to all the cartoonists who submitted their work, but were not accepted for the site (or have not yet heard back from me). We appreciate it, and consider it an honor, that you would send your work to us and let us look at it. There were definitely no losers in the bunch — we’ve got a pretty tight set of editorial goals, and most of your work just didn’t fit our needs at this time. That doesn’t mean that we don’t respect you, and what you’re doing, and wish you the best and biggest success in the world as you move on.

Finally, and definitely not least, I want to make sure I thank all our fantastic contributors for making this launch week so special. It was important to me, as I put together this website, filtering through the hundreds of submissions, to make sure that a wide variety of art styles, story types, points of view, genders (yes, there are more than two) and orientations were represented. I think we could still use more strips, and more variety, but right out of the gate, we’ve managed to attract some of the most amazing and expressive cartoonists working online, in any genre! So, yes, thanks Jess, Steve, Chad and Wiz, John, Derek, and Greg, Krahnos and ShadowWing for putting your hearts and your minds on the screen for us. We’re proud to be working with you!

So: woo-hoos all around!

AdultWebcomics is proud to announce its sixth, and final, launch series: Derek Ballard’s Moon Boots. Derek currently draws covers and comics for SCREW magazine, as well as doing some work for Eros/Fantagraphics books recently. He will be in the Dirty Show in Detroit co-hosted by JUXTAPOZ in September. You can also see his stuff in the current issue of The Drama magazine.

When asked about his new comic, Derek said, “I’ve had the urge to do something along the lines of MOON BOOTS for a while now. I remember in high school, a friend of mine got caught with my copy of Eightball. (It was the issue where Clowes did the Freudian sports gag, phallic baseball bats and vulvular basketball hoops etc.) They kicked him out of school for having pornography! At that point I knew I had to be a dirty cartoonist. They seemed like some of the most powerful people on earth!

“I wanted to bring this work to the web via AdultWebcomics.com because I want the world to see that not all underground comics these days are man-boy “I-love-my-girlfriend” stories where the main character always ends up crying in the fetal position. C’mon, I know there has to be an audience for hot bi chicks in legwarmers doing monster bong hits, right?…Or is it just me?”

“Derek’s work displays a quirky line and a strong sense of composition,” said the site’s editor, Joe Botts. “It’s also got a woman masturbating with a banana on the first page. What more could you ask for?”

AdultWebcomics.com is a new portal designed to serve as a solid, attractive, and stable home for erotica and sexual humor in comics form, two kinds of comics that have been ignored by, or actively banned from, other webcomics portals.

AdultWebcomics.com is proud to announce the launch today its fifth ongoing series, Profiles, written by Graveyard (”Guardians”) Greg, illustrated by Krahnos, with color by ShadowWing.

Graveyard Greg said, “Profiles is a coming out story, but if it were just a guy coming out of the closet, that’d be boring as reality TV. Well, except for “Who Wants to be a Superhero?” That show rocks.

“So where was I? Oh yeah, the comic. The comic is inspired by a great adult book called Omaha, Cat Dancer. I loved that comic. It was tasteful, well drawn, and had a good story. So at least my comic has good art, right? Krahnos rocks. He’s best known for his work in the print comic The Wanderer, and getting him to do Profiles is the icing on the adult cake.”

AdultWebcomics is proud to announce the launch of its fourth ongoing strip today, “Sophisticated Pig“, a comic about fashion, espionage and anthropomorphic bestiality written by Wiz Rollins and illlustrated by WCCA-nominated webcartoonist Chad Diez.

“Oddly enough Wiz and I started “Sophisticated Pig” through a forum sketch battle on Transplant Comics (www.transplantcomics.com) using this ‘pig’ character. Afterwords, I posted an open call for any writers to help develop “Sophisticated Pig” for a webcomic of his own. A couple weeks later, Wiz sent me an amazing script which later turned into Chapter One.”

“Sophisticated Pig: Chapter 2″ updates every Tuesday and Thursday. The previously published Chapter One can be read in it’s entirety right now. “I know Wiz and I are both very excited about brining SP to Adultwebcomics.com. Now we have the appropriate venue for a comic of this…nature.”

“This is a hilarious strip,” said Joe Botts, the site’s editor. “One of the funniest I’ve seen.”

AdultWebcomics.com is a new portal designed to serve as a solid, attractive, and stable home for erotica and sexual humor in comics form, two kinds of comics that have been ignored by, or actively banned from, other webcomics portals.

We are proud to announce the debut of Steve MacIsaac’s new webcomics series, “Roughs,” the site’s third ongoing series.

“I draw gay comics because they’re a natural intersection of my sexual identity  and my artistic interests” says MacIsaac. “The work I will serialize in ‘Roughs’ is sex-positive and playful. Though most of the comics are silent, I establish character and story through facial expression, body language, clothing and background.  I like drawing people, not just assemblages of body parts.”

“Steve’s work has justifiably earned him a following among erotic comics aficianados, gay or straight. We’re thrilled to have him on board. There’s something about his work, its directness and bluntness, coupled with an eye for design and staging unmatched in most of the comics field, that makes these erotic stories stand out from the pack — you couldn’t do what he does in prose, or in video, or in any other medium,” said Joe Botts, the site’s editor.

MacIsaac ’s comics have appeared in a number of anthologies and zines, including Turnover, Boy Trouble, True Porn, What’s Wrong? & Holy Titclamps. The first issue of Shirtlifter, his solo comic book, came out in April, and he is working on the second issue. STICKY, his previous foray into erotica with writer Dale Lazarov, was recently issued as a handsome hardcover by German gay artbook publisher Bruno Gmünder.

Asked why he wanted to be a part of AdultWebcomics.com, MacIsaac said “I’m hoping it will be a platform for smart smut, whether it be gay, straight or pansexually perverse. I’m hoping to reach an audience beyond that which goes to gay bookstores specifically seeking out this kind of material.”

“Roughs” will update every Sunday.

For samples of MacIsaac’s non-erotic work, check out www.stevemacisaac.com.

Today we are proud to announce the launch of our second ongoing webcomics series, “This Sickness” by John Roberson.

“Remain naked,” begins Roberson’s AdultWebcomics.com feature. “Come to our bedroom right now. Dont’ ask a single question. Don’t say a single word.” The expressive sequence of cartoon images that follows is about as hardcore as a comic can get — but is also as fine as a comic can get — real cartooning by a real cartoonist. It’ll get you going on all kinds of levels.

“Where else are you going to find dirty limericks, bondage, a tuxedoed pig and a Siberian porn star? This isn’t ypur typical dirty comics.” remarks Roberson about Adultwebcomics.com, when he had a moment to separate himself from the drawing board. “Smut with brains, and it’s free! Can’t beat that with a stick.”

“This Sickness” can be viewed online, for free, at the AdultWebcomics website.

An alumnus of DePaul University, Roberson self-published the anthology Plastic under his Bottomless Studio imprint from 1998-2001, in which he serialised his graphic novel Vitriol , a 12-chapter black comedy. The magazine also featured work by Kamagurka & Herr Seele, and Sam Henderson, among other contributors. In 2000 he created several strips for the San Francisco web magazine Spark-Online under the title Slash & Burn.

In early 2003, he was editor, publisher, and one of 26 contributors to the comics anthology Working for the Man, a benefit book published in e-book format for William Messner-Loebs. The collection contains an introduction by Gary Groth as well as work by Sam Kieth, Steve Bissette, Ted Rall, Donna Barr, and P. Craig Russell. Roberson created the characters Vladrushka and Rosa & Annalisa for Fantagraphics/Eros Comix. His erotica is also serialized in This Sickness at Adultwebcomics.com.

In Summer 2004, he directed the premiere of his comedy Suspension of Disbelief in Chicago for Theatre O’ the Absurd. According to a review of this production in the Chicago Reader, Roberson’s work is “fairly obsessed with sex and death.”

In October 2005 Roberson began an experimental, and partly autobiographical, graphic novel called Drawing In Dirt currently serialized at ApogeeMag.com. He is also a frequent (largely political) blogger and occasional film critic.

AdultWebcomics.com is a new portal designed to serve as a solid, attractive, and stable home for erotica and sexual humor in comics form, two kinds of comics that have been ignored by, or actively banned from, other webcomics portals. Roberson’s feature is the second announced series for the site (”Jess Fink’s Dirty Limericks” by Jessica Fink launched yesterday). We’ll be launching one new feature per day for the rest of this week. Look out for some great surprises!

Today we’re proud to announce the launch of our first ongoing series, “Jess Fink’s Dirty Limericks.”

Jessica Fink has a Bachelor’s Degree in Cartooning/Illustration from the School of Visual Arts. Her non-erotic work has appeared in the New York Times and the Detroit News. Her erotic work is continuely published by Fantagraphics books for their monthly erotica series. For these books, she writes and draws her own stories as well as doing full color painted cover artwork. Most recently she finished up a 24 page erotic comic with writer Polly Frost (’Head 14′) that is now for
sale from EROS/Fantagraphics books. The first installment of “Jess Fink’s Dirty Limericks” is a complete story featuring the pleasure robot Chester 5000, whose “gears may pop, and metal may rust … but no one could beat his mechanical thrust!”

“Erotic comics are used to being pushed around,” said the artist, “censored and pushed under the bed. I’m super exited because I think Adultwebcomics.com could finally be a place to find really quality erotic art! There’s a lot of smut on the net, but it’s not that easy to find something good.”

“Jess’s submission was one of the first I received when we opened the floodgates,” said the site’s editor, Joe Botts, “and I was especially excited to see it. Her work is, by any standard, superior cartooning — that it’s also sexy and funny and, okay, flat-out dirty, is almost beside the point. But I said almost!”

We’ll be adding new comics and new creators (and new surprises!) over the course of the coming week. Look out for more announcements!