Prolific gay artist Oliver Frey is gone. Usg the psdonym Zack, he created some of the hottt gay ics ever drawn. All obuari I n fd onle maly mentn his mercial art, but ...
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COMI FTIVAL PRENTS OLIVER FREY – THE GRAPHIC GAY GAZE
Also known as 'Zack', Oliver Frey has been arog the gay imagatn for four s. His rnchy hero Rogue prowled the pag of 'Him' magaze the UK d * oliver frey gay *
As a young teenager he sketched imag of a more sexual nature, always homoerotic. He missned a monthly seri, and Oliver Frey’s profsnal gay reer was unr way.
Before long a growg number of gay anisatns were lg up to missn Frey illtratns.
In 1978 Frey and his partner Roger Kean joed forc wh Purnell to form Street Level, which ntued to publish HIM together wh Teenage Dreams, Hot Dog, and the HIM Gay Library seri. Street Level also beme volved wh the gay club Heaven, which opened s doors December 1979, arrangg theme nights promoted through HIM magaze. In October 1982 they moved om London to the small market town of Ludlow, where for a year Frey ntued producg ‘Rogue’ strips for Millivr’ Mister magaze, and created a new gay ic-strip lled ‘The Street’ for the re-lnched HIM liftyle magaze, later renamed Gay Tim.
GAY ARTIST (AKA ZACK) HAS DIED.
The Oliver Frey impact on advertisg. Growth of the "Pk Pound" the late 1970s and early 80s led to an explson advertisg the gay prs. * oliver frey gay *
How many of the rears of Dan Dare or CRASH knew at the time that the artist they so admired had a send, equally prolific reer gay porn?
Workg unr the name ‘Zack’, Frey was a prolific illtrator of gay eroti varyg levels of explicns om the 1970s onwards. His work phed the boundari of UK obsceny law at the time, borrg on (or directly crossg to) hardre imagery wh erect cks, hand jobs and anal peratn durg wild i – which were still technilly illegal due to the wordg of the laws that had only partially legalised gay sex.