{"id":23592,"date":"2025-01-12T11:53:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T16:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gayleague.com\/?page_id=23592"},"modified":"2025-01-12T12:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T17:17:07","slug":"dragula","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gayleague.com\/comics-archives\/dragula\/","title":{"rendered":"DRAGULA"},"content":{"rendered":"[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ custom_padding_last_edited=”on|phone” next_background_color=”#FFFFFF” module_class=”overlaydark” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_image=”https:\/\/gayleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ComicsArchiveGrid.jpg” parallax=”on” parallax_method=”off” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding_tablet=”||100px||false|false” custom_padding_phone=”” bottom_divider_style=”arrow2″ bottom_divider_height=”100px” bottom_divider_flip=”vertical” bottom_divider_style_tablet=”” bottom_divider_style_phone=”” bottom_divider_style_last_edited=”on|tablet” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,1_4,1_2″ module_class=”flexbox-container” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ width=”90%” max_width=”100%” module_alignment=”center” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ module_class=”flexbox-item” _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”25px|25px|25px|25px|false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/gayleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/gay-league-logo-email.png” title_text=”gay-league-logo-email” show_bottom_space=”off” align=”center” _builder_version=”4.16″ width=”160px” width_tablet=”150px” width_phone=”140px” width_last_edited=”on|phone” max_width=”140px” module_alignment=”center” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ text_font=”Lemon Milk||||||||” text_text_color=”#E02B20″ text_font_size=”26px” header_3_font=”Lemon Milk||||||||” header_3_text_color=”#FFFFFF” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”0px||||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” text_font_size_tablet=”30px” text_font_size_phone=”26px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|tablet” global_colors_info=”{}”]\n

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Neal Adams\u2019 artwork came to my attention when I first started reading comics. It\u2019s hard to believe so much time has passed since first seeing his cover work gracing various comics like Superman, World\u2019s Finest, Adventure, and a handful of horror books like House of Mystery. Adam’s interior artwork on Spectre, Deadman, X-Men, Batman, Green Lantern\/ Green Arrow and the short lived Inhumans feature in Amazing Adventures completely enthralled my young mind. His work inspired many juvenile attempts to copy it. While Adams’ art didn\u2019t make me gay \u2013 nature did \u2013 it helped to make me aware that I was different from the other kids at school.<\/p>\n

Tastes change as we grow. My obsession with his style waned as I found other comic book artists and artists working in other media. Aside from an occasional nostalgic trip these days when I look through boxes of old comics I rarely think about Adams\u2019 comics work anymore. That changed when this Dragula short story came to my attention a while ago when I stumbled on a post<\/a> written by UK Jarry at his Street Laughter blog. This Dragula strip written by Tony Hendra and drawn by Neal Adams, which appeared in the November 1971 issue of National Lampoon, is full of swishy, effeminate gay stereotypes and negative stereotypes in general.\u00a0 Frank Frazetta, whom Lampoon editors may have wanted to draw the story, illustrated a fake cover.<\/p>\n

The Street Laughter blog<\/a> hasn’t been updated recently though you’ll still find lots of interesting stuff at the blog that you may not have known about before.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/gayleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Dragula-pg1.jpg” title_text=”Dragula-pg1″ align=”center” _builder_version=”4.16″ animation_style=”slide” animation_direction=”bottom” animation_duration=”1300ms” animation_intensity_slide=”40%” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/gayleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Dragula-pg2.jpg” title_text=”Dragula-pg2″ align=”center” _builder_version=”4.16″ animation_style=”slide” animation_direction=”bottom” animation_duration=”1300ms” animation_intensity_slide=”40%” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/gayleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Dragula-pg3.jpg” title_text=”Dragula-pg3″ align=”center” _builder_version=”4.16″ animation_style=”slide” animation_direction=”bottom” animation_duration=”1300ms” animation_intensity_slide=”40%” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/gayleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Dragula-pg4.jpg” title_text=”Dragula-pg4″ align=”center” _builder_version=”4.16″ animation_style=”slide” animation_direction=”bottom” animation_duration=”1300ms” animation_intensity_slide=”40%” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/gayleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Dragula-pg5.jpg” title_text=”Dragula-pg5″ align=”center” _builder_version=”4.16″ animation_style=”slide” animation_direction=”bottom” animation_duration=”1300ms” animation_intensity_slide=”40%” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/gayleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Dragula-pg6.jpg” title_text=”Dragula-pg6″ align=”center” _builder_version=”4.16″ animation_style=”slide” animation_direction=”bottom” animation_duration=”1300ms” animation_intensity_slide=”40%” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/gayleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Dragula-pg7.jpg” title_text=”Dragula-pg7″ align=”center” _builder_version=”4.16″ animation_style=”slide” animation_direction=”bottom” animation_duration=”1300ms” animation_intensity_slide=”40%” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/gayleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Dragula-pg8.jpg” title_text=”Dragula-pg8″ align=”center” _builder_version=”4.16″ animation_style=”slide” animation_direction=”bottom” animation_duration=”1300ms” animation_intensity_slide=”40%” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/gayleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Dragula-pg9.jpg” title_text=”Dragula-pg9″ align=”center” _builder_version=”4.16″ animation_style=”slide” animation_direction=”bottom” animation_duration=”1300ms” animation_intensity_slide=”40%” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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