Parallel Genesis

1. Jean Cocteau Le Livre Blanc, 1930
2. Roy Lichtenstein Laocoon, 1988  

When I saw the Lichtenstein exhibition in London, I felt a moment of 'enlightment'. When an expressive brush stroke and a fine pencil line meet in mythological thunder and lightning, two genius' minds make love.
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A Short History Of The Comic Strip In Popular Culture X

1. Unknown
2. Andy Warhol Tongue In Ear, 1980
3. Jean Cocteau Le Livre Blanc, 1930
4. Barazoku Magazine 1971 - 2004
5. Gengoroh Tagame Gunji, 2005
6. Sadao Hasegawa Paradise Vision, 1996

Sex and comic strips or 'Outline Porn'. What begun with the introvert drawings of a young Jean Cocteau, a homoerotic dreamscape, has found its culmination in Hard Yaoi. In that sense, Warhol's idea of repeatability has turned into hardcore mass-comsumption.
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Soft-Handedly

Artworks Jean Cocteau

We know his more explicit scenes. Gesture drawings depicting sexual intimicy. A few sharp lines, erect and potent. Still, there is another side. More complex, layered and surreal works about abstraction and distortion.
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