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Emanuele Taglietti is an Italian illustrator, mostly known for his covers for digest-sized, adult comics (fumetti) whose themes were sex, violence, and horror. The following links are so, so NSFW:
Sex And Horror: The Lurid Erotic Art Of Emanuele Taglietti (Dangerous Minds)
Emanuele Taglietti art at Comic Art Fans
Cover Art By Emanuele Taglietti at Spaghetti Fumetti
Interview with Korero Press
Emanuele Taglietti Fan Club
Sex And Horror: The Lurid Erotic Art Of Emanuele Taglietti (Dangerous Minds)
Emanuele Taglietti art at Comic Art Fans
Cover Art By Emanuele Taglietti at Spaghetti Fumetti
Interview with Korero Press
Emanuele Taglietti Fan Club
In Alvy's link, I like to imagine the two guys in red are discussing what they're going to do on their lunch break. (I dunno, Ralph, maybe Thai?)
posted by rokusan at 1:02 AM on October 21, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by rokusan at 1:02 AM on October 21, 2018 [2 favorites]
I did not know that they make hand-cranked meat grinders large enough to stuff an entire naked lady into. There's an Italian sausage joke in there somewhere.
posted by XMLicious at 1:10 AM on October 21, 2018 [3 favorites]
posted by XMLicious at 1:10 AM on October 21, 2018 [3 favorites]
Gorgeous! The colors are grabbing me by the shoulders and giving me a good shake.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 4:03 AM on October 21, 2018
posted by The Underpants Monster at 4:03 AM on October 21, 2018
Wow,...I guess fumetti flew under the radar of Unversal studio's legal department.
posted by bonobothegreat at 5:04 AM on October 21, 2018
posted by bonobothegreat at 5:04 AM on October 21, 2018
So, does anyone know of good articles that explore why horror media (particularly of this pulpy variety, and particularly of this era) so often intersects with the sexual objectification of women?
posted by escape from the potato planet at 5:18 AM on October 21, 2018 [5 favorites]
posted by escape from the potato planet at 5:18 AM on October 21, 2018 [5 favorites]
Well, I think sexual objectification of women is pretty standard in marketing and advertising in general. Genre media has traditionally tended to get away with a little bit more.
Horror, pulp, Gothic, noir, sci-fi and similar genres have also been a place where anything that's considered sexually transgressive for the times has been able to be expressed, not just naked ladies being carried off by monsters. You've got your sex and gender roles being twisted and bended and flipped all over the place in ways that, in the super conformist 1950s, you weren't necessarily going to see on Middle America's screens and bookshelves, where nice, fictional white men kissed their nice, fictional white wives and slept in twin beds and looked like Van Johnson. That's one of the reasons The Rocky Horror Show falls together so naturally.
(Think I need more coffee)
posted by The Underpants Monster at 5:34 AM on October 21, 2018 [11 favorites]
Horror, pulp, Gothic, noir, sci-fi and similar genres have also been a place where anything that's considered sexually transgressive for the times has been able to be expressed, not just naked ladies being carried off by monsters. You've got your sex and gender roles being twisted and bended and flipped all over the place in ways that, in the super conformist 1950s, you weren't necessarily going to see on Middle America's screens and bookshelves, where nice, fictional white men kissed their nice, fictional white wives and slept in twin beds and looked like Van Johnson. That's one of the reasons The Rocky Horror Show falls together so naturally.
(Think I need more coffee)
posted by The Underpants Monster at 5:34 AM on October 21, 2018 [11 favorites]
I mean, there's no shortage of raptus going on in the older version s of our fairy and folk takes, and those Greek gods were always turning into animals and charging up the nearest peplos.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 5:45 AM on October 21, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by The Underpants Monster at 5:45 AM on October 21, 2018 [1 favorite]
"Eat, Papa, eat! Whoever heard of a skinny Santa?"
posted by JimInLoganSquare at 6:11 AM on October 21, 2018 [3 favorites]
posted by JimInLoganSquare at 6:11 AM on October 21, 2018 [3 favorites]
This NSFW 1983 illustration from La Poliziotta must be intended to depict Christopher Lee as Dracula, but the resemblance to Nicholas Cage is uncanny (six years before Vampire's Kiss, too). And this NSFW 1986 one for a generic horror comic appears to star knock-off Sylvester Stallone and Tony Curtis. It says something* that a cover illustration of Universal horror-era Frankenstein with a blowup doll is the closest to SFW this gets.
* Something like, "Let's imagine Fredric Wertham teaming up with Hammer Studios to make soft-core exploitation comics!"
posted by Doktor Zed at 7:03 AM on October 21, 2018 [2 favorites]
* Something like, "Let's imagine Fredric Wertham teaming up with Hammer Studios to make soft-core exploitation comics!"
posted by Doktor Zed at 7:03 AM on October 21, 2018 [2 favorites]
that meat grinder picture is really gross
clearly she hasn't been gutted yet, that sausage is going to be unhygienic
posted by idiopath at 10:13 AM on October 21, 2018 [3 favorites]
clearly she hasn't been gutted yet, that sausage is going to be unhygienic
posted by idiopath at 10:13 AM on October 21, 2018 [3 favorites]
Universal horror-era Frankenstein with a blowup doll
They can't give the blowup doll to Dracula, because when he bites its neck it shoots out the window
posted by The Underpants Monster at 11:37 AM on October 21, 2018 [3 favorites]
They can't give the blowup doll to Dracula, because when he bites its neck it shoots out the window
posted by The Underpants Monster at 11:37 AM on October 21, 2018 [3 favorites]
A look at the Sex and Horror book (turn the volume off first).
posted by The Hamms Bear at 4:13 PM on October 21, 2018
posted by The Hamms Bear at 4:13 PM on October 21, 2018
Wow. This one looks especially fun and in this one I first thought that someone asked her to put his dick on the phone and she's trying to listen in to the conversation.
posted by bendy at 6:32 PM on October 21, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by bendy at 6:32 PM on October 21, 2018 [1 favorite]
If I was an artist, it would be fun to gender-swap some of these.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 6:36 PM on October 21, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by The Underpants Monster at 6:36 PM on October 21, 2018 [1 favorite]
So, does anyone know of good articles that explore why horror media (particularly of this pulpy variety, and particularly of this era) so often intersects with the sexual objectification of women?
I think that Stephen King touches on it in Danse Macabre; I don't have it in front of me, but I think that King ties a lot of it in with adolescence, both in terms of sexual yearnings and of bodies undergoing rapid and startling (and even hideous, if you had bad acne) transformations.
posted by Halloween Jack at 9:35 PM on October 21, 2018
I think that Stephen King touches on it in Danse Macabre; I don't have it in front of me, but I think that King ties a lot of it in with adolescence, both in terms of sexual yearnings and of bodies undergoing rapid and startling (and even hideous, if you had bad acne) transformations.
posted by Halloween Jack at 9:35 PM on October 21, 2018
Meat grinder guy looks a little like Ernest Borgnine. These guys would've made good mad magazine illustrators.
posted by condour75 at 7:21 AM on October 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by condour75 at 7:21 AM on October 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
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