Go, Read: My Dad, The Pornographer

Chris Offutt's widely linked-to memoir-style piece on cleaning up his late father's office and digging through his lengthy career as a genre writer and writer of pornography takes a comics-oriented twist about two-thirds of the way in. That means I can mention it here.

The two interesting things to me were 1) that comics element and what material was being done there and Offutt's initial impression of the role it played in his dad's life, and 2) a kind of reverse-negative portrait of the market in which Andrew Offutt worked. I thought this particularly compelling in terms of how much the market shaped what and how the elder Offutt wrote, which is something about which we're not always honest when dealing with the creation of any kind of art.

Update: Rodrigo Baeza notes that the elder Offutt worked with Eric Stanton at least once.
 
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