Comments on: The '70s, a time of natural beauty http://www.comicsbeat.com/2006/09/21/the-70s-a-time-of-natural-beauty/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:15:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v= hourly 1 By: NLP Editor http://www.comicsbeat.com/2006/09/21/the-70s-a-time-of-natural-beauty/#comment-5874 NLP Editor Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:44:20 +0000 http://www.comicsbeat.com/2006/09/21/the-70s-a-time-of-natural-beauty/#comment-5874 I found your blog on Google. I've bookmarked it and will watch out for your next NLP blog post. I found your blog on Google. I’ve bookmarked it and will watch out for your next NLP blog post.

]]> By: Utah http://www.comicsbeat.com/2006/09/21/the-70s-a-time-of-natural-beauty/#comment-5873 Utah Thu, 06 Sep 2007 04:01:00 +0000 http://www.comicsbeat.com/2006/09/21/the-70s-a-time-of-natural-beauty/#comment-5873 Fine! I visited your web site. Fine!
I visited your web site.

]]> By: The Beat http://www.comicsbeat.com/2006/09/21/the-70s-a-time-of-natural-beauty/#comment-5872 The Beat Fri, 29 Sep 2006 18:38:58 +0000 http://www.comicsbeat.com/2006/09/21/the-70s-a-time-of-natural-beauty/#comment-5872 Nudity exploitation and juvenalia is all in the eye of the beholder and the context. In case no one has figured this out yet, I'm a contexualist and a relativist. Nudity exploitation and juvenalia is all in the eye of the beholder and the context.

In case no one has figured this out yet, I’m a contexualist and a relativist.

]]> By: Robin Bougie http://www.comicsbeat.com/2006/09/21/the-70s-a-time-of-natural-beauty/#comment-5871 Robin Bougie Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:42:52 +0000 http://www.comicsbeat.com/2006/09/21/the-70s-a-time-of-natural-beauty/#comment-5871 The sight of full frontal nudity strikes you as exploitive and juvenile? Thats kinda weird. The sight of full frontal nudity strikes you as exploitive and juvenile?

Thats kinda weird.

]]> By: Sal! http://www.comicsbeat.com/2006/09/21/the-70s-a-time-of-natural-beauty/#comment-5870 Sal! Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:28:40 +0000 http://www.comicsbeat.com/2006/09/21/the-70s-a-time-of-natural-beauty/#comment-5870 Hi, I run a website and Podcast called Around Comics. We were very interested in this story, so we contacted Gene Colan for a response to this. You can see it <a href="http://www.aroundcomics.com/news/latest/essential-editing.html" rel="nofollow">here.</a> Hi, I run a website and Podcast called Around Comics. We were very interested in this story, so we contacted Gene Colan for a response to this.

You can see it here.

]]> By: Bill Cunningham http://www.comicsbeat.com/2006/09/21/the-70s-a-time-of-natural-beauty/#comment-5869 Bill Cunningham Mon, 25 Sep 2006 05:13:31 +0000 http://www.comicsbeat.com/2006/09/21/the-70s-a-time-of-natural-beauty/#comment-5869 I don't care that people may think that the material is immature because of the nudity and violence - that is the a given when you're dealing with exploitative material. What offends me most is that Marvel is censoring material that in the 70's was acceptable for newsstand distribution. I want to know who thought that they had to CENSOR a title called TOMB OF DRACULA. Guess what? TOD is SUPPOSED to be offensive and horrific and exploitative! That's what made those stories so great. But it damn sure shouldn't be censored - especially in an archive book series marketed as "Essential." It's wrong and stupid and ultimately wasteful of the brand. I don’t care that people may think that the material is immature because of the nudity and violence – that is the a given when you’re dealing with exploitative material. What offends me most is that Marvel is censoring material that in the 70’s was acceptable for newsstand distribution. I want to know who thought that they had to CENSOR a title called TOMB OF DRACULA.

Guess what? TOD is SUPPOSED to be offensive and horrific and exploitative! That’s what made those stories so great.

But it damn sure shouldn’t be censored – especially in an archive book series marketed as “Essential.”

It’s wrong and stupid and ultimately wasteful of the brand.

]]> By: Tom Spurgeon http://www.comicsbeat.com/2006/09/21/the-70s-a-time-of-natural-beauty/#comment-5868 Tom Spurgeon Fri, 22 Sep 2006 20:28:21 +0000 http://www.comicsbeat.com/2006/09/21/the-70s-a-time-of-natural-beauty/#comment-5868 Apparently not. Apparently not.

]]> By: The Beat http://www.comicsbeat.com/2006/09/21/the-70s-a-time-of-natural-beauty/#comment-5867 The Beat Fri, 22 Sep 2006 19:26:09 +0000 http://www.comicsbeat.com/2006/09/21/the-70s-a-time-of-natural-beauty/#comment-5867 Won't everyone be so entranced by the sight of her heaving bosoms that they pay no attention to the vampiric violence? Won’t everyone be so entranced by the sight of her heaving bosoms that they pay no attention to the vampiric violence?

]]> By: Tom Spurgeon http://www.comicsbeat.com/2006/09/21/the-70s-a-time-of-natural-beauty/#comment-5866 Tom Spurgeon Fri, 22 Sep 2006 18:21:47 +0000 http://www.comicsbeat.com/2006/09/21/the-70s-a-time-of-natural-beauty/#comment-5866 Top of the page? Top of the page?

]]> By: The Beat http://www.comicsbeat.com/2006/09/21/the-70s-a-time-of-natural-beauty/#comment-5865 The Beat Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:57:30 +0000 http://www.comicsbeat.com/2006/09/21/the-70s-a-time-of-natural-beauty/#comment-5865 Huh? Graphic violence? Where? Huh? Graphic violence? Where?

]]> By: Terrell http://www.comicsbeat.com/2006/09/21/the-70s-a-time-of-natural-beauty/#comment-5864 Terrell Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:43:38 +0000 http://www.comicsbeat.com/2006/09/21/the-70s-a-time-of-natural-beauty/#comment-5864 it bothers me a bit that you have no problem showing graphic violence on your site but not the nudity. it bothers me a bit that you have no problem showing graphic violence on your site but not the nudity.

]]> By: Tom Spurgeon http://www.comicsbeat.com/2006/09/21/the-70s-a-time-of-natural-beauty/#comment-5863 Tom Spurgeon Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:08:06 +0000 http://www.comicsbeat.com/2006/09/21/the-70s-a-time-of-natural-beauty/#comment-5863 There have to be differences because there was a worldwide celebration of bemused pop culture writing on the subject of Harry Potter showing his dingle in a production of Equus, but one person's random suggestion of "Hermione flashed her knockers" has made me want to never read the Internet again. There have to be differences because there was a worldwide celebration of bemused pop culture writing on the subject of Harry Potter showing his dingle in a production of Equus, but one person’s random suggestion of “Hermione flashed her knockers” has made me want to never read the Internet again.

]]> By: The Beat http://www.comicsbeat.com/2006/09/21/the-70s-a-time-of-natural-beauty/#comment-5862 The Beat Fri, 22 Sep 2006 04:53:25 +0000 http://www.comicsbeat.com/2006/09/21/the-70s-a-time-of-natural-beauty/#comment-5862 Whoa buddy, I didn't say "Wrong." I just said it doesn't mean mature. I don't think the art should have been changed. Vampire comics need boobies. And no one, me included, said my posting all those 300 pictures was "mature". BTW, the next person who suggests to me that men and women are objectified in the <B>same way</b> in our society is going to get an ass whuppin'. Both are objectified, but in vastly different proportions and ways. Whoa buddy, I didn’t say “Wrong.” I just said it doesn’t mean mature. I don’t think the art should have been changed. Vampire comics need boobies.

And no one, me included, said my posting all those 300 pictures was “mature”.

BTW, the next person who suggests to me that men and women are objectified in the same way in our society is going to get an ass whuppin’. Both are objectified, but in vastly different proportions and ways.

]]> By: matteo http://www.comicsbeat.com/2006/09/21/the-70s-a-time-of-natural-beauty/#comment-5861 matteo Fri, 22 Sep 2006 03:29:26 +0000 http://www.comicsbeat.com/2006/09/21/the-70s-a-time-of-natural-beauty/#comment-5861 Well, i feel irked by the implication that seeing a naked woman in a comic is wrong and immature. Guess what? I am straight, heterosexual, and I find the female form the most beautiful thing on this planet. While, say, i would get upset if Hermione flashed her knockers in a eventual "Harry Potter" comic book, it's only right that in a dracula pulp comics there is blood and tits. If you don't like it , don't buy it. In the Renaissance the was a guy named "il mutandaro", who's job was to paint underwear on angels and other characters on the sistine chapel, because it offended the "civil" sensibilities. Nice to see that things don't change. I am appalled by the straight-edge feminism where no matter what female nudity in the media is wrong. Because,well, it's not. Why don't we give more clothes to the "300" actors, eh? Matteo Well, i feel irked by the implication that seeing a naked woman in a comic is wrong and immature. Guess what? I am straight, heterosexual, and I find the female form the most beautiful thing on this planet.

While, say, i would get upset if Hermione flashed her knockers in a eventual “Harry Potter” comic book, it’s only right that in a dracula pulp comics there is blood and tits. If you don’t like it , don’t buy it. In the Renaissance the was a guy named “il mutandaro”, who’s job was to paint underwear on angels and other characters on the sistine chapel, because it offended the “civil” sensibilities. Nice to see that things don’t change.

I am appalled by the straight-edge feminism where no matter what female nudity in the media is wrong. Because,well, it’s not. Why don’t we give more clothes to the “300″ actors, eh?

Matteo

]]> By: Tom Spurgeon http://www.comicsbeat.com/2006/09/21/the-70s-a-time-of-natural-beauty/#comment-5860 Tom Spurgeon Fri, 22 Sep 2006 00:04:51 +0000 http://www.comicsbeat.com/2006/09/21/the-70s-a-time-of-natural-beauty/#comment-5860 Dirk, I hope you enjoyed the naked man imagery at the top of my blog today. Dirk, I hope you enjoyed the naked man imagery at the top of my blog today.

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