Artist/animator Joe Phillips, creator of the X-rated, animated, GAYVN-Award-winning The House of Morecock, returns this summer after a four-year break with something altogether different: a gay superhero team named Stonewall & Riot. They are Eros City's most prominent heroes and, in the plot Phillips has concocted, they have to fuck their way through a gallery of twisted and horny sex freaks in order to track down a stolen invention and rescue a missing professor.
Phillips, Creative Director of San Diego’s Adult Visual Animation (AVA), “got into drawing cartoons for my living in my early teens, just because my younger brother, Lex Wolfcraft, asked me why I didn’t. I took some drawings to a comic-book convention, was seen by professionals, and instantly began to make my living that way."
Among the top-line superstar comic books Phillips drew were Superman and Silver Surfer.
"I had actually thought of becoming a stand-up comic. As a nomadic child with a businesswoman mother who moved to where the opportunities were, I’d had to learn to make new friends in new places. Art was a way of entertaining, so were comedy and fashion. It’s just chance that drawing became my livelihood.
"But I began to get a bit burned-out and bored with the comic-book thing after fifteen years. A company approached me about doing a calendar, so I began for them my Boys Will Be Boys calendar and also gay greeting cards. A friend who had helped me create my website suggested me to Kara’s Adult Playground, so I did for them a hetero sci-fi parody called Cumquest, followed by a series of very short, monster-hunting gay-porn pieces called The House of Morecock.
"I did the monster-hunting thing because people looking for sex online were always telling me they’d gotten hooked up with ‘monsters and trolls,’ which my sexually-versatile blond hero Jason Morecock does literally!
"After a year of this, I formed AVA with my friend Ron McFee as president and my brother, Lex, as vice president to package the web-episodes plus a few unreleased ones and produce a feature-length The House of Morecock with 10% Productions and Greenwood Cooper.
"Since then I’ve been, for instance, doing Budweiser print advertisements and designing boxes for Jocko, and running my merchandising site, JoePhillips.com. But I’m very excited now to have finished Stonewall & Riot, my new gay porn cartoon feature.”
What can we expect from Stonewall & Riot? Phillips becomes excited. “It’s computer-generated, 3-D-looking animation, like in Schreck and The Incredibles! Morecock was such fun to do, and so successful, I wanted to do another movie. After my experience with superhero comics, the logical thing seemed to be muscular guys running around in skintight outfits.
"I had done a three-minute Pokemon spoof for Absolutely Male called Phuckemon, little pornographic characters that each had one sexual fetish, with names like Asslick, Fudgepacker, Buttmunch, Analconda, Dr. Probe. Some of those became villains in the new piece."
Explaining the genesis of his new creations, Phillips says, "I looked around at the inner city and saw a lot of buildings with gargoyles and stone walls, wanted a character like Batman or Spiderman and suddenly ‘Stonewall’ flashed into Lex's mind,and ‘Riot’ seemed a perfect name for his sidekick! Riot has red hair and he’s fiery and jumps around. Stonewall is this staunch kind of dark figure."
Influences? “Cartoonist Howard Cruise, because he got out there and wrote stories he believed in. I love The Lion in Winter, great movie for dialogue. The Wizard of Oz for the simplicity of its story. Disney! Chuck Jones! Bugs Bunny. The Star Wars-type stuff. Glen Keane, supervising animator of Disney’s sexy “Tarzan” character. Don Bluth, who did Titan A.E., with Matt Damon voicing a really sexy character.
"You’ll be able to judge how well I live up to my influences when you see Stonewall & Riot. I hope people like it. I’ve always wanted to entertain.”
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