Chic Frisco (5 results)

Newspaper. First Edition. 16p., folded tabloid newspaper, photos, comics, ads, personals, services, news, fiction, maps of Polk Gulch and other gay SF hotspots, spread of drag queens, mild wear, newsprint. San Francisco gay lifestyle newspaper. Succeeding title was Gay Times. Cover story warning Gay Activists that the NPAC November Peace March is backed by "Trotskyites" of the SWP. Former SWP member and Grand Poobah of Bolerium John Durham notes that this was just a panic and the Trotskyists had no designs on any of the gay or lesbian groups this year in SF. Well, not politically.…

Collection of five explicit gay-themed Stonewall-era cartoons presented as mock holiday cards and posters, all signed "Chic." "Chic o' Frisco" is listed as an author in the Online Archive of California's collection of San Francisco LGBT Business Ephemera, and is also mentioned by that name (as designer of a parade float) in the October 1970 issue of "Vector: A Voice for the Homosexual Community," the official publication of the Society for Individual Rights (SIR). Cards are reminiscent of vintage novelty kitsch-erotica for the heterosexual market, with an added subversive political edge; some drawings are self-consciously retro in style and repurpose patriotic/jingoistic iconography or ad-copy language for satirical or pornographic ends. Shares some visual sensibility with the work of Tom of Finland, whose style at the turn of the decade likewise traded on a pre-established vocabulary of masculine tropes. Rare and ephemeral. Five holiday cards and posters in original 12.5'' by 9.5'' pictorial envelope, all with original mail folds as issued. Envelope ragged along edges with some tears, otherwise very good to near fine. Four of the cartoons are 18'' by 12'' (9'' by 12'' folded); one is 9'' by 12'' (9'' by 6'' folded). The contents of this collection are as follows: 1."'Tis Tyme Ye Shude Offer'th Up Thine Thanks." Pictorial mailing envelope printed in gilt; 12.5'' by 9.5'' 2. "Kampik Stripz, or Brown Nosein' Thru 'Fairyland.'" 1968. Poster depicting six homoerotic cartoon vignettes printed in black on orange background. 18'' by 12.'' 3. Labor Day Sport: Have a Ball! or Two." Bifolium printed in black on yellow stock; pp. [2-3] feature an illustrated poem: "Septembers [sic] 'Golden' Song." Celebrating "Happy, Gay Labor Day Preversions." 9'' by 12'.' 4. "Uncle Needs You! an All the Gang for a Bangin 4th of July." Bifolium, exterior printed in white on red background, interior printed in blue on white background. 18'' by 12.'' 5. Happyness [sic] Is a 'Dad' Called Peter!" 1969. Bifolium "Father's Day" card printed in brown and yellow. 18'' by 12.'' 6. "'Coming' of the Pilgrims." 1968. Bifolium Thanksgiving Day card printed in blue and gilt. 18'' by 12.''.…

Original flyer. 12 x 21.5 cm., line-drawn illustration and titles in black on saffron coloured paper. N.p. [San Francisco], n.p., n.d., 1968. £275 Old vertical fold, crisp clean copy. Depicts " Mr B.C." naked except for a biker cap and leather boots in front of a motorbike. 216200.

No Binding. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Original broadside. 18x12 inch orange broadside with six homoerotic cartoons, titles and line-drawn illustrations in black, signed and dated in the stone by the artist, on orange paper, conservation framed and glazed. N.p. [San FrancisDeco], n.p. [The artist and Barbary Gay Coasters?], n.d., c. 1968. £750 Clean, crisp condition. Depicts muscled largely naked leathermen engaging in digging, fishing, life drawing and in one scene being mounted by a poodle whilst in congress. Washington is depicted in fellatio on a dollar bill. 215441. Signed by Author(s). …

Title continues: But Gimme Your Han' an We'll Trip The Lite Fantastix or Take a Fantastic Trip Or Somp'in! Original flyer or leaflet. 21.6 x 28 cm., illustrations and holograph titles roneoed in purple on white paper, signed and dated in the stone by the artist. N.p. [San Francisco], n.p., n.d., 1968. £200 Three contemporary vertical folds, perhaps as issued, light, even browning of paper. Two leathermen in caps and boots are chained to each other by their members, a racist caricature of a Mexican man, in sombrero, looks on and ejaculates. 216205. …