more STROKE – but this search might provide more than just pics from the magazine
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I was about to comment “do you know who the artist is?” then I hovered and the text box gave me the answer, you’re always on top of things around here.
After discussing Stroke so much in the bears thread with johnny llama I dug the box out with my magazines, I knew I had at least a couple of them. The ones I have are pretty late in the run of the mag, vol. 16 no. 6 (May 1997) and vol. 17 no. 4 (Jan. 1998) and by that time they were identifying a lot of the guys (esp. the ones from films they were promoting) but not all of them. I used to have at least one issue of Stroke back in the 80s so I remember what they were like then, I know what you and johnny mean about there not being as much info about Stroke as most other magazines of that era. Both of them have some drawings by different artists, Ace Moorcock and Domino et al, that was pretty common in a lot of gay mags.
17/4 has a seven page spread called “past tense (from the stroke collection)” and each page has three b&w pics of unidentified guys that look as though they were taken in the 70s, maybe even 60s. The next section is a bunch of pics of Jeff Palmer since that was when he first started making films and wasn’t completely off the deep end yet.
Yes, I enjoyed our discourse while BJ was away. Thanks for entertaining me.
I love Bill Ward! His strip “Drum” featured gritty illustrations of cowboys, bikers, truckers, construction workers and all manor of rough & tumble man’s men getting it on. They were usually as hot or hotter than any erotic fiction or photo layout from the same issue. There was a natural realism to the men and the situations and subtle humor as well.
3 replies on “stroke”
I was about to comment “do you know who the artist is?” then I hovered and the text box gave me the answer, you’re always on top of things around here.
After discussing Stroke so much in the bears thread with johnny llama I dug the box out with my magazines, I knew I had at least a couple of them. The ones I have are pretty late in the run of the mag, vol. 16 no. 6 (May 1997) and vol. 17 no. 4 (Jan. 1998) and by that time they were identifying a lot of the guys (esp. the ones from films they were promoting) but not all of them. I used to have at least one issue of Stroke back in the 80s so I remember what they were like then, I know what you and johnny mean about there not being as much info about Stroke as most other magazines of that era. Both of them have some drawings by different artists, Ace Moorcock and Domino et al, that was pretty common in a lot of gay mags.
17/4 has a seven page spread called “past tense (from the stroke collection)” and each page has three b&w pics of unidentified guys that look as though they were taken in the 70s, maybe even 60s. The next section is a bunch of pics of Jeff Palmer since that was when he first started making films and wasn’t completely off the deep end yet.
Yes, I enjoyed our discourse while BJ was away. Thanks for entertaining me.
I love Bill Ward! His strip “Drum” featured gritty illustrations of cowboys, bikers, truckers, construction workers and all manor of rough & tumble man’s men getting it on. They were usually as hot or hotter than any erotic fiction or photo layout from the same issue. There was a natural realism to the men and the situations and subtle humor as well.