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.
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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. 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?
GAY ARTIST (AKA ZACK) HAS DIED.
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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. A mcled barbarian on the ver of one CRASH looks unnnily like one of his domant gay men and you n see elements of his BDSM fantasi on other vers.
Some of Frey’s gay work – the more mercial, ls explic illtratn – bears his real name and he never actually tried to keep his adult work a secret – ’s jt that the two worlds were very separate and there was no pot blurrg the l more than was necsary. Ironilly, although his gay erotic art was the subject of an exhibn at the Brish Library 2014 – givg a gree of tablishment rpectabily that was nied to his more mastream art. No matter what fantasy figur he is illtratg, whether ’s the dazzlg science fictn hero Dan Dare, The Trigan Empire or The Termal Man or the homoerotic hunks Rogue, Bike Boy and others om HIM and Meatmen, Oliver Frey brgs a distctive masculy and sensuo physily to his ic art.
It was never much of a secret to those who regnised his style and were ‘to the Frey’, although may e as a surprise to some that this renowned mastream ics illtrator and newsstand magaze novator is also Bra’s (and Swzerland’s) greatt ntemporary gay porn artist and wrer, as acplished and signifint as Tom of Fland before him.