Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It [Paperback]

Big, burly, lascivious, and soft around the edges: welcome to the hypermasculine world of Japanese gay manga.This is a groundbreaking manga anthology by and about gay men, put together by an award-winning team. Replete with rippling muscles and hypermasculinity, this volume provides a fascinating overview of contemporary gay manga and its creators. In a medium dominated by visual exaggeration, the figures given vivid, lusty life by these artists express the apex of a powerful butch sensibility. While the work... is as explicit as it could possibly get, there is a clearly expressed joy to its aggressive sexuality... U.S. collectors of this material will be thirsty for this first-ever English language anthology, and adventurous comics readers will encounter a realm they might have otherwise overlooked. &[H]andsomely designed, meticulously researched& & Get ready for Smart and amazingly hot at the same time. & A gorgeous, bear-sized omnibus. & The title is not kidding around: it's a big anthology about big men with big appendages doing big, big things. & This is the kind of manga that's never been seen in the English-reading world before. &[It's] one of the best, not to mention one of the smuttiest, collections of manga ever published in the U.S. Here's a book I want to give the highest recommendation to, but for very different reasons from those I would usually highlight for an amazingly effective collection of male-on-male erotic art  which this happens to be. But it is also fascinating and incredibly informative. The book's sections are not only beautiful, intelligent, sometimes humorous and always sexy as hell. They are also important, for what the artists have to say in the accompanying texts and essays about themselves and about the art they make. This is a wonderful collection that every reader and writer should read. It's a knockout on so many different levels!