Little Annie Fanny was likely not as sharp as Kurtzman's earliest satirical efforts like Mad or Fanny's direct descendant, Goodman Beaver (especially since Hefner had script approval and he routinely pushed for more titillation), but it was still a great comic by two comic book masters.īlack Kiss was a controversial comic book series that Howard Chaykin released in the late 1980s (and has been reprinted a number of times since at various comic book companies, with Dynamite Entertainment being the most recent one to reprint it in 2010) as a sort of response to the call for warning labels in comics at the time.

The strip ran from 1962 to 1988, so Kurtzman was able to parody the entire sexual revolution as it happened. In addition, Kurtzman kept pitching Hefner on features for Playboy and finally, Hefner agreed to publish a sex parody comic series within the pages of Playboy called Little Orphan Fanny (a parody of Harold Gray's famous comic strip, Little Orphan Annie).ĭrawn by Kurtzman's longtime collaborator, Will Elder, the strip followed the naively optimistic Fanny into various funny situations where she would invariably end up naked. The magazine failed very quickly due to cash problems by Hefner, but an apologetic Hefner gave Kurtzman free office space where he tried to launch follow-up efforts. 15 LITTLE ANNIE FANNYĪfter creating Mad for EC Comics, Harvey Kurtzman left EC to create a humor magazine for Hugh Hefner's Playboy line of magazines called Trump. Here, then, are 15 great NSFW comic books from American creators and/or American comic book companies (in chronological order). However, as the years have gone by, there have been a number of good pieces of comic book erotica released from American comic book companies and that number has been growing steadily in recent years as the taboo element of these types of stories has begun to fade (although, again, not to the point where any of these comics would be safe to read at work). RELATED: Cheesecake Factory: The Most SCANDALOUS Comic Art Of All Time When it comes to actual good comic books involving sex, the American comic book market has lagged well behind Europe and Japan, where comic books about sex are quite common. While obviously there have been comic books about sex in the United States since the beginning of the 20th Century, these comics were almost always simply Tijuana Bibles, childish attempts at drawing popular celebrities and comic characters in sexual situations to appeal to the lowest common denominator. WARNING: The following list deals with subject matter not appropriate for children.

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