Lord Iron’s got a vintage Handjobs tale with all the hallmarks of the stories we love here: exploration, joy, connection, and consent. While lots of the stories in classic Handjobs issues go unattributed or are credited to single first name authors who are never heard from again, a handful of illustrators also authored the many […]
An Interview with Artist and Illustrator Bruno B.
Bruno B.’s work is a part of the Tom of Finland canon and is significant in its sexualizing of bara-type masculine bodies in Handjobs and other publications.
Sunday Comics: Josman’s “Cellmates”
I feel better when I don’t think too hard about what’s truly being conveyed in setting this scene in lockup. Or in fetishizing convicts and criminals in the way they’re fetishized here. Or in the reasons Josman found it necessary to the story for the conspicuously white/blonde and bald prisoner to refer to it as his “big white cock.”
Story Time: “Auto Parts” by Mike White (Illustrated by Josman)
As I worked his cock, I unbuttoned my pants and pulled my own throbbing dick out. “Like that big fuckin dick?” he asked.
All I could do was nod. His hands held me down on his meat.
Why Handjobs Magazine (Still) Matters
Feelings of isolation and outsider statuses only ease when humans can see that others are so very like them and want the same things. Growing up when and where I did (the American South in the 80s and 90s), I wasn’t often exposed to extremely sexual situations, or even sex in general with any regularity. […]
Sunday Comics: “The Plumber” by Josman
Even the plumber who fixes your toilet has massive pecs of granite and a Julia Roberts Smile in Josman’s gay comic world. I’ve been avoiding this entry in the Josman canon because I thought I had already published it. But, as it turns out, the story I published was actually a different story about plumbing, […]