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Silvano is a mask, an alter ego, a B-side of the artist that was born the day a kid sketched imaginary erotica for lack of actual porn, and accidentally discovered masturbation.
With Sworn, Silvano is born to the real world, bringing life to erotic fantasies, combining the sensual and the raw, the tender and the unrestrained passion. True love and libido, through porn, made art.
http://artofsilvano.blogspot.com/ and http://yaoi.y-gallery.net/user/silvano/
C.J. Evans is excited that his first work for Class Comics, Sworn, has recently been published. A long time fan and reader of comics, it was that love of comics and erotica that pushed him to create Sworn with collaborator, Silvano.
Combining superheroes with a story of love and acceptance, while also being erotic, was C.J.’s main goal for Sworn. But C.J. also wanted to show the struggle many gays go through coming to terms with their sexuality.
New to the business, C.J. hopes his work on Sworn is only the beginning of his writing career.
For more info on Sworn, visit the official Sworn Mini Site.
Born on January 27th, 1975 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Hernán Cabrera is an accomplished graphic artist and comic colorist. He has been working with Patrick Fillion and other Class Comics artists since 2006, bringing the characters that populate the Class Comics Universe to life with his brilliant coloring.
With a degree as a Graphic Design Technical Professional since 1995, he worked in a design studio from 1993 to 2003. In 2004 he and a couple of friends founded the graphic design studio NBK Design, which he works for to this day.
In 1996 he took a course in traditional animation with some of the greatest artists in Argentine animation.
From 1997 to 1999 he took a course painting and drawing from live model in the Asociación Estímulo de Bellas Artes.
In 1996 he meets Mariano Navarro, with whom he begins a deep friendship and artistic partnership. The following year, he submits coloring samples of the then brand new comic book”Caballero Rojo” (“Red Knight”), and thus gets to color every cover of that comic , published from 1997 to 2001. He also colors various covers for the magazine specialized in comics “Comiqueando” and for the “Makabre” one-shot.
In 2001 he creates the website Portalcomic, specialized in comics and specifically focused in argentine comic. There, he takes charge of the design and administration of the site, as well as a big amount of the art included.
In 2002 he, along with Toni Torres and Mariano Navarro, independently release the one-shot “Juan de Noche” (“John by Night”).
He then works on several small assignments for independent publishing companies in the United States until 2003, when he colors the comic “Mygala: Incubation”, for Editions Nucléa in France. Due to its success, that first tome gets a second edition in 2006, this time by the publishing company Soleil. That same year, the second tome “Mygala: Insurrection” hits the streets.
In 2003 he colors the digital comic “Syra” for the website Portalcomic, with script by Gustavo Schimpp and art by Roberto Viacava. Also that year and also with Gustavo Schimpp and Roberto Viacava, the comic “Ficciones” (“Fictions”) is published in the magazine “Bastion Comix”.
In 2005 he colors the comic “Eden” for Editions Paquet in Belgium, which receives a very good critic in specialized mediums. Later, he colors “Sophia1: Passé Trouble” and “Sophia 2: Elementa Chaos” for the same editor.
In 2006 He starts coloring illustrations of erotic stories for the website BEStory Club in USA. Also that year he begins working for the Canadian publishing company Class Comics, coloring many of their erotic illustrations and comics. Several of the illustrations in question were collected in 2007 and printed in the book Bliss: The Art of Patrick Fillion.
That same year he designs and illustrates the whole children storybook “Sweet Company”, written by Ana Varela.
In recent times he has collaborated with various publications, coloring covers and illustrations for the magazines “Comiqueando”, “Kinara”, “ToxiComics”, “Zombie Highway”, the book “50/30” in memory of H.G.Oesterheld and more.
Nowadays he divides his time among his graphic design studio, his work for Class Comics, his website PortalComic and several projects for national and international comics. For more information on Hernán or to see more of his work, check out his Blog and the Portal Comics website.
American author Tina Anderson has emerged as one of the most prolific writers of erotic graphic novels and short comics, with titles published America, Germany, Poland, and Canada. She recently took a break from comics to release her debut novel, the critically acclaimed gay-historical horror Gadarene, but fear not—she’s back in the manga-writing saddle again with two new gay romance titles debuting in 2009 for fans in Germany. You can keep up with Tina Anderson at her blog: Guns, Guys, and Yaoi.
Though no longer creating works as a team, Anderson’s former partner and Diplomatic Immunity artist Caroline Monaco is still creating bold and erotic fan comics at her y!Gallery page, Roonz.
Don MacLean was born in 1963 in a small town in Ontario, Canada. He grew up a sensitive, bookish lad, who preferred to spend his time with a book (and, occasionally, a hand) in his lap.
In his twenties he started writing book reviews for local gay newspapers in Ottawa and caught the eye of the powers-that-be at Toronto’s Pink Triangle Press (PTP) who were planning to start up Canada’s first national adult magazine for gay men. He applied for the editor job and, alas, came in second. Happily, PTP’s first choice had a mysterious change-of-heart and they were forced to approach their runner-up for the job. Don solemnly swore to do everything he could to turn the publication into a rousing (and arousing) success. With witty wordplay like that, it’s hard to believe the magazine ceased publishing less than two short years later.
One of the few bright spots for Don in those two years was receiving a fax of Patrick Fillion’s work. Don knew immediately that he had found a first-rate illustrator for his second-rate publication. And, after many lengthy, laugh-filled, long-distance phone conversations (on PTP’s dime), he also realized he had met a kindred spirit.
Don and Patrick kept in touch after Canadian Male magazine went tits up. (Yes, that’s what Canada’s first national adult gay men’s magazine ended up being called. Again, hard to believe that Don’s powerhouse imagination couldn’t keep it going!) A year later Don moved to the west coast.
At that point Patrick was still doing Class Comics part-time and, one fateful day, he mentioned to Don that he had written a new script for his latest creation, Naked Justice. Don was curious to read it and offered to do a quick edit on the script for spelling and grammar. He ended up doing two edits, the first one being the basic edit he had originally promised, and the second one, a comedic re-write. Don saw a lot of potential for Naked Justice as a more light-hearted hero. After reading his second effort, Patrick agreed, and the rest, as they say, is history.
These days Don lives a contented life on Canada’s west coast (when he isn’t lapsing into a coma during the extraordinarily long periods between Naked Justice books.)
The only writing he does (or plans to do) is for Class Comics.
Fraser created Class Comics 6 years ago with his partner, Patrick Fillion. Together, they have created some of today’s hottest Gay Male Erotic titles, and continue to work with a variety of other talented gay comic artists and writers, such as Logan, HvH and Max’, to name just a few.
While Patrick busies himself with creating new artwork for Class Comics, Fraser or “Fraz” as his friends call him, handles the vast responsibilities of running the office and making sure the roof does not collapse on their heads. He also looks after communications with other artist.
When he is not swamped taking care of business-related things, Fraser is hard at work developing his own books for Class Comics. His first title called The Initiation is all about college life and campus shenanigans. Fraser wrote the Initiation with “real guys” in mind, feeling that the superhero genre was well covered by Patrick already. “The Initiation” was written by Fraz, and illustrated by Class Comics newcomer, Joseph Hawk. Together, Fraz and Joseph have produced what Patrick calls “one of Class’ hottest books yet”!
The Initiation is now available for purchase. Meanwhile, Fraz continues to be involved in all Class Comics projects and their directions, and is already hard at work on another title which features a “James Bondian” character whose exploits are nothing short of sex-drenched. But as is the case with all of Class Comic’s books, this title will also offer up a compelling and exciting story for the readers to sink their teeth into.
Class Comics is proud to have Ismael Alvarez as part of its list of contributors. This young artist has been creating immensely beautiful illustrations and Gay comic erotic for several years, but has only just started to create art for us.
His first official story appeared in RAPTURE #1, and featured the demon Sethan and Naked Justice. The story entitled “Paying your dues” served as prequel to the DEIMOS #0 issue, and blew fans away with its beauty! Ismael won over the readers of Class Comics, and proved that other artists could also do homage to our characters.
“I adore the world of comics in general, the world of eroticism, and —why not say it— the world of pornography. I am one of those who think that it is art, whatever way you look at it; I don’t believe that the mere act of watching how people perform sex can be considered as something deviant and dirty. Quite the contrary! You will see that I don’t beat about the bush; when it comes to illustrating. I do what I want when I want, and if you don’t like it, don’t look at it. Sex is beautiful, dear people. Let’s look at it the way it is…”
For more info on Ismael, check out his website: www.ismaelalvarez.com
UPDATED October 29, 2012.
Are you interested in working with us and joining the Class Comics team? We welcome your submissions, provided each proposal adheres to our submission guidelines. Here’s what you need to know before submitting your work. Please note that we have made numerous changes to our submissions guidelines, effective October 29, 2012 Be sure to read everything over very carefully. All submissions must be sent to us electronically.
CREATOR-OWNED PROJECTS
Class Comics is a publisher of Gay Erotic Comics. We are always looking for quality creator-owned projects that feature prominent gay characters and adult themes. We are not currently looking for projects without adult content.
Our goal is to broaden the line of Class Comics titles to include works by other creators. Your project should feature a strong Gay overtone, and must be adult-rated. Projects featuring prominent Gay characters and themes but not containing adult, sexual content will NOT be considered at this time. Please do not send anything of this nature. Remember who you are submitting work to. SEX is a big part of Class Comics, and while we also look for compelling stories, your project should be drenched in sex appeal, and feature as much nudity and sexual themes and action as possible.
Ideally, your project will be 24 pages in length. We will consider projects that are longer than 24 pages, but the 24-page comic book format is what we are generally looking for. A series of up to 3 books can be proposed, with each individual issue being 24 pages in length.
We require at least 8 fully completed pages in color in order to consider a project for possible publication. The first 8 pages of the first book are preferred as it helps us properly assess things and get a better sense of the project.
PLEASE DO NOT SEND SCRIPTS.
ARTISTS
We are currently looking for independent artists to work on Class Comics projects — That is projects written by Class Comics and featuring Class Comics characters. Any artists wishing to submit samples for consideration are encouraged to submit drawings of Class Comics characters, but can also submit pieces that do not directly depict Class Comics characters. Essentially, we want to know that you can draw our characters and that if you are hired to work on a project, our characters will be properly represented and recognizable. Remember that you’re trying to impress us, and we are primarily interested in seeing how artists draw Class Comics characters.
Class Comics is not looking for inkers at this time.
WRITERS
Class Comics does not accept scripts or idea proposals from writers without an artist firmly commited to the project. We categorically do not accept scripts regarding our characters as we control our characters’ destinies!
We don’t have a reserve of artists who we assign to scripts. Generally we publish projects done by artists or artists/writer teams. This means that if you have an original story idea, but no visuals for it, then partner yourself with an artist and CREATE THAT COMIC!
You might want to poke around a bit on www.digitalwebbing.com/talent/ or www.deviantart.com/ or yaoi.y-gallery.net/ and see if you can find someone with the same interests. We are happy to look at partially completed projects and consider them for publication upon completion.
We don’t look at unsolicited scripts as it sets up potential for problems later on, should some of our projects bear an unintentional resemblance.
HOW TO SUBMIT
PLEASE NOTE: We NO LONGER accept artwork submissions via email.
Submissions must be sent electronically. You can upload your files using our DROPBOX.
Once your work is uploaded, please contact us and let us know that it’s there. You can reach us directly through our CONTACT PAGE.
If we have an immediate interest in your work you will be contacted. If anyone on the Class Comics staff has even the slightest interest in your work your submission will be kept on file for future reference. No immediate response from us does not necessarily constitute a rejection. It can take some time to review submissions and consider them thoroughly, so please be patient.
On the other hand, if you’re sending a submission cold and we’re not currently interested, we may not be able to get back to you right away. That said, if we like your stuff and have a place for you, you will hear from us.
Thanks for your interest in submitting material to Class Comics!
