the hammer musuem is having a huge comic show, survey mostly--18 artists, not all indie and not all pervert suits, looks solid, and recently MOMA in new york has aquired several pornographic drawings, for their collection, including Zak Smiths painting of a sucide girl, a rather tame but handsome tom of finland--actually almost nude, and some crumb--coming from a couple of different sources, including the judith rothschild collection.

my concern then, is having all of these liminal places, ephermeal drawings, intended to be under the counter, reflections of id and ego, of bogeymen and real fascist power, of genres who were dangerous, made safe and clean and insttuional--its already happened to crumb, who has gone from a kind of wrath filled counterinstinctual back stabbing hater of all things common to a crotechty old man, and i see that moma isnt for example collecting tom of finlands the orgies and fist fucking--and zak smith is hi art so hes tame anyways and the collection is really 3 out of 2500 hundred or so but t here is that concern there, of castration.