![]() Gilad Padva argues in his academic paper "Dreamboys, Meatmen and Werewolves: Visualizing Erotic Identities in All-male Comic Strips" (2005) that Macy's "Tail" eroticizes and politicizes Sigmund Freud’s homophobic myth of the Wolf Man. His work on Meatmen included a short story entitled "Tail". ![]() Throughout the 1990s, Macy contributed to queer comics anthologies, Meatmen and Gay Comics, and gay skin magazines, such as Steam by Scott O'Hara, Bunkhouse, and International Leatherman. These stories contained dark and surreal motifs, mixing eroticism with hallucination and death/ rebirth, a common theme in Macy's personal works. It was followed by the erotic horror series Nefarismo published October 1994 – October 1995 by Eros Comix. Macy's first series Tropo was part of the early 1990s black and white alternative comics boom. Jon Macy was born on September 11, 1964, in California. ![]() Since then, he has contributed to various LGBT comics anthologies and gay pornographic magazines, but he is best known for his graphic novel Teleny and Camille, which won a 2010 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Erotica. ![]() He began his career in 1990 with the series Tropo published September 1990 – April 1992 by Blackbird Comics. 2010 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Erotica ![]()
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We don’t walk around thinking about that instability, but we know it’s always there: at random and without warning, a kind of terrible magic can switch on and scramble our lives.” “There are moments when the world we take for granted instantaneously changes,” Jon Mooallem writes in the opening pages of his 2020 book, This Is Chance!, “when reality is abruptly upended and the unimaginable overwhelms real life. ![]() ![]() For fat, unlovely Roberta Teys has been found in her best dress, an axe in her lap, seated in the old stone barn beside her father's headless corpse. ![]() Along with the redoubtable Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, Lynley has been sent to solve a savage murder that has stunned the peaceful countryside. ![]() Now into Keldale's pastoral web of old houses and older secrets comes Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton. 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