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Posted: 8/20/2005 8:18:33 AM EDT

COMIC WAR ON 'SUPER QUEEROES' By C.J. SULLIVAN
NYPost, Sat Aug 20, 6:00 AM ET

Holy Homophobia, Batman.

A Manhattan art gallery was threatened with legal action if it didn't take down a display of some risqu watercolor paintings of Batman and Robin in several — er — compromising positions.

DC Comics has asked the Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts gallery on West 26th Street to cease and desist from showcasing artist Mark Chamberlain's work of the Dynamic Duo in flagrante.

The comic company has also demanded that an art Web site — Artnet — remove Chamberlain's portraits of the duo's dirty doings — some of which have found buyers, with a starting price of $200.

The Caped Crusader is shown in one painting entitled "Pin Up" without his bat shirt, lounging like a gay-porn magazine model. Another, "Robin's Baby Pictures," has the Boy Wonder lying on his stomach baring his buttocks. An untitled portrait has Batman and Robin sharing a passionate tongue kiss.

"DC Comics wants me to hand over all unsold work and the invoices for the sold work," Cullen told Artnet News. There was no answer at her gallery yesterday.

DC Comics has also demanded they remove Chamberlain's work depicting the stripped-down superheroes.

There was no answer at DC Comics yesterday.

Chamberlain, whose work was still displayed on the Artnet site yesterday, did not immediately return a call for comment.




This is the tamest image:



Some raunchier stuff
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 8:20:49 AM EDT
[#1]
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 8:22:41 AM EDT
[#2]
Wrong!  Thats just WRONG!  Those stupid homo's are always out to sexualize everything.
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 8:23:11 AM EDT
[#3]
Robin is hot
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 8:23:58 AM EDT
[#4]
Almost made me burp Pepsi out my nose.........asswipe!!..........oh and thats just plain wrong
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 8:24:59 AM EDT
[#5]
Sounds more like nambla art to me.  Isn't robin a teenager in the comics?
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 8:26:08 AM EDT
[#6]
Might actually be one of the actual artists.

DC made a big effort to appear "Friendly to alternative lifestyles" by placing gays in prominant positions, and I know that most of the Batoffice is gay as a result.
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 8:30:02 AM EDT
[#7]

"DC Comics wants me to hand over all unsold work and the invoices for the sold work,"


Good.  Ya cant steal other peoples property.  Period.  An artist should know this.  
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 8:31:12 AM EDT
[#8]
That reminds me of SNL's Ambiguously Gay Duo.  Although they're not being so ambiguous in those pictures.
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 8:31:37 AM EDT
[#9]


ETA: Damnit! Beaten by a few seconds.
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 8:32:24 AM EDT
[#10]
teh ghey
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 8:39:01 AM EDT
[#11]
I would sue the shit out of the for copy right laws, and for bad taste
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 8:48:52 AM EDT
[#12]
I hope that DC Comics nail this person's ass to the wall.
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 8:49:03 AM EDT
[#13]
Shit like that is why people hate gays...taking widely known characters and then superimposing gay attributes upon them makes people angry. Its insulting, its suggestive, and its that kind of thinking that get gays labeled as they are. Being gay isnt the problem....flaunting the fact as though it were a badge of honor IS the problem.

Im not proud that I am straight....its like saying "I am proud that I woke up this morning"...its not like it was an accomplishment. People like this person showing this 'art' are interested in shock value only. Their 'art' isnt capable of immediately impacting or captivating onlookers, so they make it absurd (half naked pictures of cartoon superheros? WTF is wrong with people)

What makes this whole thing worse is, people like me will get called closed minded for not wanting to have that filth put on display, yet the agenda of the people behind it go unexamined.

People have no damn shame anymore.
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 8:54:09 AM EDT
[#14]
"Your warm, young skin melted right through the ice monster!"
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 8:54:49 AM EDT
[#15]
this is some funny shit:

Link Posted: 8/20/2005 8:55:33 AM EDT
[#16]
I always thought Robin was kinda gay.
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 8:57:06 AM EDT
[#17]

Quoted:
I hope that DC Comics nail this person's ass to the wall.



They might enjoy that.. too much...
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 8:57:41 AM EDT
[#18]
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 8:58:12 AM EDT
[#19]
ibtl
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 8:58:29 AM EDT
[#20]
That stuff is just wrong,

Link Posted: 8/20/2005 8:59:11 AM EDT
[#21]

Quoted:
I hope that DC Comics nail this person's ass to the wall.





That person would like it..............


ETA

Damn I type slow.
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 9:00:42 AM EDT
[#22]
It's Batman and Robin, not Ace and Gary!  What the F!@K?
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 9:03:23 AM EDT
[#23]
Now if it was Wonder Woman and Supergirl...
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 9:03:44 AM EDT
[#24]
"Splat!"    "Jizz!"    "Oooh!" would replace "Pow!"   "Bam!"   "Smash!"    
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 9:05:54 AM EDT
[#25]
SIiiiiiiiiccccckkk
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 9:06:23 AM EDT
[#26]

Quoted:
Now if it was Wonder Woman and Supergirl...





Oh ya
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 9:08:19 AM EDT
[#27]

Quoted:
Wrong!  Thats just WRONG!  Those stupid homo's are always out to sexualize everything.



It's not homosexuals, particularly. Turn on the Disney Channel some time, and take a look at what they're trying to normalize for pre-adolescent heterosexual children. It disgusts me, but apparently I'm the only person who notices it.
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 9:56:11 AM EDT
[#28]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Wrong!  Thats just WRONG!  Those stupid homo's are always out to sexualize everything.



It's not homosexuals, particularly. Turn on the Disney Channel some time, and take a look at what they're trying to normalize for pre-adolescent heterosexual children. It disgusts me, but apparently I'm the only person who notices it.



It's also the toy companies.

The 'Bratz' toys are done up like whores.

I refuse to let my daughter play with that kind of crap.
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 10:00:20 AM EDT
[#29]
IBTL.   Sick shizit, Batman!
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 10:02:09 AM EDT
[#30]
" Quick Robin grab the Bat Lube" WTF
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 10:14:30 AM EDT
[#31]

Quoted:
DC made a big effort to appear "Friendly to alternative lifestyles" by placing gays in prominant positions, and I know that most of the Batoffice is gay as a result.




IIRC, Gotham was NYC.
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 11:09:26 AM EDT
[#32]
I always thought the dynamic duo was a little...

Now we know for sure.
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 2:06:05 PM EDT
[#33]

Quoted:
www.rotten.com/library/culture/ambiguously-gay-duo/999.jpg

ETA: Damnit! Beaten by a few seconds.



Batman is much better hung in the little fruity watercolor pics.
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 2:07:42 PM EDT
[#34]

Quoted:
Shit like that is why people hate gays...taking widely known characters and then superimposing gay attributes upon them makes people angry.



I am a Bible believing Christian.

And I don't hate gay people.

I don't agree with the lifestyle, but I bear no personal animosity against anyone who practices it.
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 2:08:54 PM EDT
[#35]
LOL

That's fucking funny!
~Dg84
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 2:10:15 PM EDT
[#36]
Ummm,

What exactly where you looking for when you ran across this?






Link Posted: 8/20/2005 2:19:23 PM EDT
[#37]
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 2:32:02 PM EDT
[#38]

Quoted:
Ummm,

What exactly where you looking for when you ran across this?


Along those same lines, I was going to post this last week in someone's thread as a joke.*


*The guy here is some Nascar guru or something...one of the female Arfcommers wanted Photoshops making fun of him to hang on her refrigerator...then I realized this probably isn't appropriate for hanging on her refrigerator...on the other hand, who knows?!
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 2:41:45 PM EDT
[#39]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Wrong!  Thats just WRONG!  Those stupid homo's are always out to sexualize everything.



It's not homosexuals, particularly. Turn on the Disney Channel some time, and take a look at what they're trying to normalize for pre-adolescent heterosexual children. It disgusts me, but apparently I'm the only person who notices it.


The WIGGLES!!!!
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 2:46:21 PM EDT
[#40]

Quoted:
Wrong!  Thats just WRONG!  Those stupid homo's are always out to sexualize everything.



LOL!

No Shit!!

I mean, you don't see anyone painting the Village People screwing chicks, do you?!

Link Posted: 8/20/2005 2:48:12 PM EDT
[#41]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Ummm,

What exactly where you looking for when you ran across this?


Along those same lines, I was going to post this last week in someone's thread as a joke.*
img.photobucket.com/albums/0603/Dwoog34/Penismobile.jpg

*The guy here is some Nascar guru or something...one of the female Arfcommers wanted Photoshops making fun of him to hang on her refrigerator...then I realized this probably isn't appropriate for hanging on her refrigerator...on the other hand, who knows?!



Umm that is Boyd Cottington
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 2:54:47 PM EDT
[#42]

Quoted:
Umm that is Boyd Cottington


I see.  I gather in real life he wouldn't show up at the "Burning Man" festival in a penismobile?
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 2:56:20 PM EDT
[#43]
Damn, now my childhood memories of the Caped Crusader are tainted by these twisted, faggoty images.

Thanks a lot!
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 3:22:37 PM EDT
[#44]
The funny thing about all this... put aside the dynamic duo for a moment.  The artist just plain sucks.  He's trying to compensate for his lack of ability with contraversial subject matter.
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 3:29:22 PM EDT
[#45]

Quoted:
The funny thing about all this... put aside the dynamic duo for a moment.  The artist just plain sucks.  He's trying to compensate for his lack of ability with contraversial subject matter.



It seems like all artists do this these days.  Compare today's art to the Roman and Greek sculptures that were crafted thousands of years ago.
Link Posted: 8/20/2005 3:35:20 PM EDT
[#46]
I hate that "the world is gay, we are all gay" crap.

Wonder what Adam West thinks of this...
Link Posted: 8/22/2005 5:53:57 AM EDT
[#47]
this is so gray
Link Posted: 8/22/2005 6:04:30 AM EDT
[#48]

Quoted:
The funny thing about all this... put aside the dynamic duo for a moment.  The artist just plain sucks.  He's trying to compensate for his lack of ability with contraversial subject matter.


Pretty much.

Sadly though, there is no such thing as bad press.
Link Posted: 8/22/2005 6:09:38 AM EDT
[#49]

Quoted:
I hope that DC Comics nail this person's ass to the wall.



I'm guessing that wouldn't be a big problem for Mr. Chamberlain.
Link Posted: 8/22/2005 6:30:37 AM EDT
[#50]
Mmmmmmm.... weren't Batman and Robin ALWAYS gay?

Think about it:a mid 30s, wealthy, never married, man who wears tights and a fake muscle suit, living in an undereground health spa with a teen age run away in shorts and a mask?

Gay, very gay.
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