Ah, the beauty of intercultural mixing: Silencio is a relatively new erotic cartoonist from France. His images are part bande dessin
e. One series revolves around a superhero called Gaytchaman. The French do love their ironic reinterpretations of Japanese and American comic books. Some of the facework is a little reminiscent of Rohr, another French artist, whose work used to be on Yahoo Groups, but seems to have disappeared from the web; other faces have the perky noses of Japanese manga characters. And, in the sword-waving warriors, there's some Frank Frazetta, thrown in as an extra.- ND