The Hun (cartoonist)

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The Hun
BornBill Schmeling
DiedSeptember 12, 2019
Portland, Oregon
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Cartoonist
Pseudonym(s)The Hun, Torro
Notable works
Hun Comics, Gohr

Bill Schmeling (died September 12, 2019[1]), better known by his pen name The Hun, was an American artist, known for his explicit, homoerotic fetish illustrations and comics.[2]

Biography

Cover of Hun Comics #12 by Schmeling

Bill Schmeling began producing erotic art in the 1960s, doing work for Physique Pictorial and other beefcake magazines, initially under the name Torro.[1] Using the pen name The Hun, he produced series of comics – Hun Comics and Gohr – featuring fantasy sexual adventures of gay men. Stories by Schmeling were regular features in Meatmen, and in 1998, the Tom of Finland Company published The Hun Book, a collection of his work.[3]

Recurring characters in his comics include Big Sig (a naïve, semi-literate young man) and Gohr (a barbarian living in a brutal, post-apocalyptic world).[4] His art is characterized by hypermasculine[4] characters with exaggerated muscles, nipples, and genitalia. Sex scenes routinely involve BDSM with an emphasis on body fluids.[4][1] Interracial sex scenes are common.[5]

In 1999 he and Hardy Haberman received the Steve Maidhof Award for National or International Work from the National Leather Association International.[6]

In July 2019, Schmeling donated all of his artwork, notes, and other materials to the Leather Archives & Museum in Chicago.[7]

Schmeling lived in Portland, Oregon.[4][1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Bill Schmeling". lambiek.net. Retrieved 2017-01-27.
  2. ^ cck. "Spotlight on...The Hun". www.coffeecakeandkink.com. Retrieved 2017-01-27.
  3. ^ "THE HUN BOOK by The Hun [Bill Schmeling]; edited by Durk Dehner & Richard Hawkins - Paperback - 1998 - from Alta-Glamour Inc. and Biblio.co.uk". Biblio.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-01-27.
  4. ^ a b c d "Leather Archives & Museum, Bill Schmeling, a.k.a. "The Hun", is a Portland,..." Leather Archives & Museum. Archived from the original on 2017-02-02. Retrieved 2017-01-27.
  5. ^ Circle, Art (2011-01-31). "MALE DRAWING: THE HUN". MALE DRAWING. Retrieved 2017-01-27.
  6. ^ "List of winners". NLA International. 2019-03-14. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
  7. ^ Peregrin, Tony. "Drawn together". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 2020-05-08.