It is with great pleasure that I can announce that the Russian-language version of Bubbles now available.
You can click on the page above or this link to be taken to the index page for the edition. You can also download the edition either as a CBZ archive or a PDF file.
Naturally we have redone our promotional spinner as well, which in my humble opinion looks cooler with every new iteration.
I am pleased to announce that Bubbles is now available in Hindi, adding, at a minimum, another quarter of a billion potential readers to this particular mad science audience.
We are up to ten languages now at Wrections (seventeen at least to go) and that spinner of ours is beginning to look quite complex.
Be sure to tell your Hindi-reading friends!
Two things have occurred to me over the past year or so. First, there’s a lot of very ugly nationalism surfacing in the world, and as a consequence of certain political developments we Americans in particular are seen more and more as ugly Americans. Second, since my twisted boyhood I’ve always had the conviction that beyond the barriers of language and geography there are potential friends out there who share my share obsessions. It’s high time, therefore, for a bit of internationalizing outreach.
So here it is. A new webcomic called Bubbles.
It’s a little bit of satire, partly inspired by all those 1950s mad-science and monster movies I misspent rather too much of my childhood on. With the help of a battery of specially-commissioned professional translators and a very patient collaborating artist I’ve managed to produce editions in many different languages. It’s a bit less racy than many things you’ll find over here at Erotic Mad Science — one has to defer to different cultural sensibilities, after all.
At launch, we have editions in the following languages:
Future editions for Arabic, Bengali, Chinese (both simplified and traditional characters) Farsi, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Punjabi, Russian, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, and Vietnamese are in process. I hope we’ll be able to roll a new edition out every two weeks or so, although this projection depends on our being able to deal with the various technical challenges of working with all these languages. More languages might be added to this list, and if you have something you would particularly want to see, by all means let me know. I’m also making available a “blank” edition for anyone who wants to attempt their own translation (or perhaps just writing their own parody of my dialog). If you make one of these and I like it, I might just publish it for you!
Also, anyone who can translate the comic into Yiddish or as much of ancient Greek as that latter language will accommodate (what would Aristotle have called a “tube girl, anyway?), please get in touch. I might have a reasonably generous commission for you…
It has been a while since I’ve had a comic which I’ve written myself across my little network of sites, but I now have something to offer. “She’s the Ransom” isn’t Erotic Mad Science. It’s something more like erotic horror. Or an attempt at a contemporary realization of the old-fashioned shudder pulps. Or it’s a dark vision of things that are soon to come. The blurb I wrote for the copy deposited at the Internet Archive reads as follows:
In a near-future dystopia, a gang of rebels abduct a rich, politically-influential man and his wife and use them as actors in a macabre piece of political theater. This work is a short comic book. It contains violence and explicit sexual content and is not suitable for minors.
Clearly this comic is born out of a deep rage that began to rise in the early morning hours of November 9, 2016 and hasn’t subsided since. I do not apologize for this. Making art means you need to go into your dark places and drag forth what you find there. (If you can’t bring yourself to do that, perhaps you oughtn’t be writing.) I shall however give you due warning; if you’re triggered by sexual violence or political anger, you might want to give this little comic a miss. Since it’s not appropriate for Erotic Mad Science, I’ve found it a home at my dark-art site Infernal Wonders. The post-up is unusually rich, with navigation links, script material, and also available downloads of the comic in PDF, CBZ, and EPUB formats.
Another note: “She’s the Ransom” is the first is a series of new comics which I’m calling the Fabulae Atroces Fausti. I expect there will be others soon, perhaps a bit more cheerful than this one, if still, as the name suggests, rather shuddery.
Every now and again I feel the need to write a bit of screenplay, and Shon’s observation on Austin Grove’s rather problematic erotic predilections somehow inspired me to get in touch with my inner Michael O’Donoghue and write a little satire. At least, I think it’s a satire. Other perfectly respectable people might think I’m just indulging in racial fetishes and misogyny for my own sick amusement. C’est la guerre. Anyway, those of you who grew up in the United States in the 1970s and watched those over-loud television commercials for various apparently-miraculous life-problem solving products you could send away for by mail order (e.g. those of Ronco and the like) will probably readily recognize the strange little genre to which this short script belongs (you can mouse-over and use the control buttons at the bottom of the image to page through the script):
asianizer-20160924Naturally it seemed wrong that I should just have black-and-white text to illustrate such a concept, so I commissioned Frans Mensink to bring it out in glorious living color:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
I was thinking about this line of movie criticism of Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die (1966) that appeared attached to today’s page of the Tales of Gnosis College. I am disinclined to debate its merits as criticism, but it made me wonder whether there are any James Bond imitations that are somehow not known to man. What might these be?
Readers are invited to liquor up and contribute their own suggestions in the comments.
By my estimate, at noon today (New York time) across the four blogs I actively maintain, including this one, Hedonix, Infernal Wonders, and Pyrosophy, I have put up a total of 10,000 posts. There will by whiskey in celebration in the old Faustus lab tonight!
The post that would have put me over the line was Δ 020 – Is Anybody Out There? at Hedonix, which is part of a series of striking image attributions I commissioned from Bacchus at ErosBlog. Bacchus did some amazing work on these, so it would be well worth your time to check it out.
I am pleased to be able to announce the addition of two new image blogs. I have a lot of images which I am attempting to tag and organize, and given how efficient WordPress is for classifying things I’ve figured I might as well use it and, as long as I am using it, I might as well share what I have with the world. I am also in the process of trying to make sure that I rescue images off my various tumblrs against the possibility that that resource might go bad.
The first of these blogs, Hedonix, is a collection of images off various tumblrs that happen to make me happy. There is erotica, to be sure, though mostly on the “nicer,” cheesecakier side of things. But there will also be glamour images and other things I like, like pictures of libraries, cityscapes, and trains and other classic bits of technology.
The second of these two new resources is Infernal Wonders, devoted to images that, while often still erotic, might be a bit on the not-so-nice side. The domain name comes from a figure who in Christian demonology serves as the secretary and custodian of the public archives of Hell (I guess you’d have to be really evil to figure out their cataloging system!). These are largely images which might have fit into the “squick or squee” parades of this and past years, save that now they’ll be occurring all year round for at least as long as I have images to post.
For those who are curious, I have also written a little essay on why it is that I feel the need for a site like this one.
Both new sites are done up in a very clean WordPress theme (Origami Premium) that runs without sidebars, so you should be able to see the bigger images in sizes as big as your browser will allow. Feel free to head over, browse, and enjoy!
The Internet Archive is one of the noblest undertakings on the entire Internet: a non-profit enterprise aimed at preserving everything that was every published, as well as making available all the knowledge of the world. And I am now pleased to be able to say that I have made my own tiny, humble contribution (other than all the content the Internet Wayback Machine may have gotten from sites I’ve run) to this mighty effort. It is a high-resolution PDF version of The Apsinthion Protocol, the entire volume, complete with a new volume cover executed by Lon Ryden.
(Image links to archive.org page.) 
The Apsinthion Protocol, Volume Cover written and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Lon Ryden is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)
You can follow this link (or click on the image above) to be taken to the Archive page for the work. It’s there in the original PDF in high resolution — a large download, but you can run it quietly in the background. And the Archive has also automatically converted it to a variety of other formats for e-readers, and will also allow you to read it directly on screen.
I feel very hopeful about this publication experiment, and if it works at all well I’ll soon be providing additional volumes for Study Abroad, Progress in Research, Invisible Girl, Heroine, and, when it completes its run at the end of this month, Gnosis Dreamscapes. If you happen to download, I’d be grateful for any commentary or feedback you might have on this new mode of publication. You can either leave me a comment on this post or get in touch with me by other means.
