Dumb Belle

Yeech! I really don't like guys who go to the gym to pick up anything other than weights and Athlete's Feet. It's okay to surreptitiously scope out the muscles and secretly inhale the sweaty aromas, but to obviously shop for a boyfriend or a quick encounter is just wrong. It intrudes on the concentration needed for self-worship and feminizes the entire scene. I don't like homos who don't play by the rules and infect a real homoerotic atmosphere with gay silliness. I hated the characters and the plotline. So, I reacted by inserting a large reflective space in the drawing. I was holding up a mirror to how I saw these characters. Not as the intense muscle-heads that should be working out at a gym but a group of guys who just used the space to act out their own uninteresting, predictable dramas.

 

— Michael Kirwan

Dumb Belle — 1997

 

 

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