#sfsx

SFSX (Safe Sex) #1

Protection

SfSx is a science fiction comic book series created by sex worker and BDSM educator Tina Horn. The latest installment in the series, published by Image comics, is an original graphic novel called Terms of Service. The new book is drawn by punk zinester G Romero-Johnson in the kinky queer collaboration of your dreams/nightmares!

In a dystopian San Francisco, our heroes from the underground club The Dirty Mind continue their resistance against the totalitarian rule of The Party. This time, they’re facing a mutilated cop with a cult of incel followers, a seductively engrossing cyberspace, and a mysterious bimbo named Stacie who may or may not be on the side of sex positivity! This action-adventure story is very much for sleazy grown-ups, gore whores, and readers who love some social commentary with their fetish art.

TINA HORN: G, I’m so stoked that Spectrum Journal wanted us to do an “in conversation” for our new book, SfSx: Terms of Service (I grew up obsessed with DVD commentary tracks, so this is a dreamy ego stroke, to be honest!

Our graphic novel is a continuation of the SfSx series I created and write (Volume 1: Protection is also available wherever fine books and comics are sold!). Each book can also be read as its own erotic technothriller. ToS is my first artistic collaboration with illustrator G Romero-Johnson, and we also got to work with Kelly Fitzpatrick on colors, Laurenn McCubbin on design, Steve Wands on letters, and Tula Lotay on the wraparound cover.

G, can you say a little bit about your influences as an artist, and what illustrating a sexually-explicit queer science fiction horror graphic novel like this meant to you at this point in your life and career?

G ROMERO-JOHNSON: Erotica is pretty central to the work I’m making, and what I’d like to make in the future. That’s not an easy thing to do within today’s publishing market especially with guidelines and terms of service on so many sites cracking down on porn and sex work in general. Still, sex is a central piece in a lot of the work I create. Some of my biggest influences and staples of my artistic fingerprint go back to Tom of Finland, GB Jones, Charles Burns, H.R. Giger, and my peers working in the same genre. (SUPERPOSE webcomic, Fanficciera, Archie Bongiovanni) Kind of a mixed bag of horror, sci-fi, and sex.

The first volume showed the “Radfem -> Tradfem” Pipeline, and the second shows how a “Manosphere” philosophy grows from those thinkings.

Ok if you fine The Handmaid' s Tale compelling ( If not way,way too on the nose) check out the comic SFSX.

Shortened of SaFe SeX.

It is smart and highly disturbing. And like Atwood's classic it is far too close to reality of today.

It stands with things like equality, rights and actual feminism not this SESTA -FOSTA bullshit aimed to hurt people.

But it handles sex and sexuality as well as systematic oppression hence the cover will have to do.