Bradley Parker (born 1961, Omaha, Nebraska ) is an American cartoonist and painter. His works have been shown at the Kona Oceanfront Gallery and the La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles. Prior to his career as a painter, Parker was an illustrator in the film industry and a cartoonist, working for mainstream publishers such as DC , Marvel , and Chaos! Comics . He is also known for his LGBT-themed comics, sometimes published under the pen name Ace Moorcock .
16-604: [REDACTED] Look up moorcock in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Moorcock may refer to: People [ edit ] Ace Moorcock (born 1961), nom-de-plume for U.S. cartoonist Brad Parker Hilary Moorcock (1936–2017; as Hilary Bailey), British editor and wife of Michael Moorcock Michael Moorcock (born 1939), the British science fiction and fantasy fiction author Fictional characters [ edit ] Sly Moorcock ,
32-760: A fictional character from the Ben Elton novel Stark Other uses [ edit ] the red grouse The Moorcock , a famous English court case about the eponymous ship "The Moorcock" Moor Cock Inn, a listed building; see Listed buildings in Luddendenfoot Moorcock Inn See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Search for "moorcock" or "moor-cock" on Misplaced Pages. Moorfowl Moorhen All pages with titles beginning with Moorcock All pages with titles containing Moorcock Moor (disambiguation) Cock (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
48-470: A gay version of Hustler magazine. Its first editions featured all color photography with very high production values similar in style to Hustler. It also regularly featured male models with erections and exposed anuses , which set this magazine apart from competitors when it first appeared. It was published in a 10-issue per calendar year format, to accommodate the Flynt Distributing model, which put
64-399: A part of a kitchen accessories line sold under the brand of chef Sam Choy . Hana Hou! Magazine wrote of Parker's work: "His Polynesian pop cartoonland paintings draw from kitsch, elevating it to art." Freshmen (magazine) Freshmen was an American pornographic magazine published monthly by Specialty Publications, a division of LPI Media from 1982 to 2009. The magazine
80-502: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Ace Moorcock Parker was born in 1961 and raised in Southern California. He later attended the art program at UCLA , where he discovered his future career path as a cartoonist. Following his departure from UCLA, he began work as an illustrator. In the 1980s, Parker's work appeared in several early volumes of Meatmen , and
96-555: The Red Tiki Lounge . During the 1990s, he discovered the work of painter Robert Williams and the lowbrow art movement. Taking inspiration from this work, he began to apply his cartoonist skills to painting fine art pieces, and was eventually encouraged by a friend to hold his first art exhibition in Hollywood, California. In 2006, Parker later moved to Hawaii, where he focused on work inspired by Hawaiian tikis full-time. In 2012, he
112-427: The better sellers of the art in the gallery, they eventually took on a featured position, including replacing the previous styles of paintings in the gallery window. His works blend popular culture items like Hollywood monsters, anthropomorphized house pets, and other alien elements into Tiki environments based upon Hawaiian landscapes. Parker states that he is making alternative representations of Tikis, and not producing
128-492: The company Tiki Shark Art Inc., which Parker co-founded with Abbas Hassan in 2010. In 2015, the company signed a licensing deal with McPhail Sports, a water sports and apparel company in New Zealand, to distribute Parker-themed merchandise to Australasia and Polynesia. In 2016, Parker released a new series of works focusing on aquatic or jungle animals, and applied as tribal tattoos upon dish towels. These towels were created as
144-545: The current month publication on the stands with a next month date. After 2000, the focus was on top-line male porn models from Bel Ami , Falcon and other adult-video production companies. Other items, such as calendars, were also published using the same label. The magazine contained nude male photography, erotic fiction, video reviews and other gay adult features. The magazine specialized in young but not solely twinkish men, primarily age 18 to 25 but some to age 30. Specialty Publications also published Men magazine, which
160-586: The on-screen monster for the film Jeepers Creepers , and worked with Rob Zombie on a music video for Ozzy Osbourne . In 1997, he produced full-color cover and interior art for Marvels: Code of Honor , a four-issue limited series written by Chuck Dixon for Marvel Comics. In 1998, he painted the art for DC Comics' Green Lantern : Fear Itself , a 96-page graphic novel written by Ron Marz . As an author, he has also collaborated on book projects with author SP Grogan, including Captain Crooked and Atomic Dreams at
176-546: The real thing, in order to avoid misrepresenting traditional Hawaiian indigenous culture. His works are also exhibited and sold at galleries in Los Angeles, including collections sold in 2010, 2012, and 2014. In 2016, his collection was shown at the city's La Luz de Jesus Gallery. Parker's original paintings are sold at Hawaiian galleries, and are printed upon a range of souvenir merchandise sold on Hawaiian tourism locations and convenience stores. The items are developed through
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208-569: Was featured on the back covers and frontispieces . His comics were also included in Gay Comix . In 1988, some of his work was collected in Oh Boy! , a 96-page book published by Leyland Publications . His comics appeared in gay porn magazines, including ongoing series for Freshmen , titled "Junior Jock Jackoff Jizz Juice Journal" and "Ace's Adventures in the Year 2000". Working in the film industry, he designed
224-465: Was geared toward gay men, and featured nude photos of men, 18–25 years old. The magazine was soft core, and distributed to mainstream news outlets, and to the soft core sections of adult stores. It was available in all Ruben Sturmen influenced outlets , probably due to the Flynt Distributing connection. It was distributed by Flynt Distributing, of the Larry Flynt empire. The magazine was an attempt to do
240-584: Was in the same format but showed men aged 25 to 40. In late 2009, Freshmen ceased publication. At first, its active subscriptions were transferred to Unzipped magazine, which itself folded, too, shortly after. The magazine held an annual contest in which subscribers could vote for their favorite "freshman" of the year. Many fledgling porn stars were featured here, and some, such as Roman Heart (2006), Sebastian Bonnet (2004), Marcus Allen (2003), and Billy Brandt (2002) have gone on to greater success. This pornographic magazine or journal–related article
256-569: Was one of the artists that featured in the seminal book Surf Graphics . In Hawaii, Parker showed his works at the Kona Oceanfront Gallery in Kailua-Kona, where his pop surrealist paintings focusing on the Tiki theme were exhibited and sold. The art curators on the island were skeptical at first that his themes would sell, so he was first relegated to the back of the shop. As the paintings proved
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