Erotic comics For most artists, "erotic" means the depiction of what arouses their desire - which is usually a beautiful young woman or man, with little or no clothes on.
All through the ages, more or less talented artists have amused themselves by drawing well-known characters in compromising sexual scenes.
This goes to show that what is considered titillating in one culture, may be viewed as criminal in another.
While depicting bare breasts is not such a big deal in Western Europe, where female nudity is used for selling anything from shampoo to cars, but in America, naked breasts are associated solely with sex, and therefore banned from public display.
Especially in the 1920s and 30s, there was a production of so-called ' Tijuana Bibles' or ' eight-pagers' - little comic books consisting of 8 pages, with a sex parody featuring film-stars or even comic characters.
A hit was 'Little Annie Fanny' by , which ran in Playboy from 1962 until 1988.
The artistic qualities of many erotic comics are very high, and many artists have earned themselves a respectable reputation in this genre.
Where lesbians are concerned, they can be found in abundance in mainstream, heterosexual pornography - but a few of them cater especially to lesbian and bi-sexual women.