Category: gay illustration

Juliusz Martwy

Juliusz Martwy, ‘Self-Portrait with Alex”’, Acrylic on Linen Canvas, 2014

Juliusz Martwy, born Juliusz Lewandowski, is a self-taught artist who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1977. He began his career with illustrations for an edition of French writer Isidore Lucien Ducasse’s “The Songs of Maldoror”, written under his nom de plume Comte de Lautréamont,  and illustrations for the works of Marquis de Sade. Martwy draws inspiration for his work from the figurative styles of expressionism, cubism, the New Objectivity, and Russian traditional painting.

An important part of Juliusz Martwy’s collective works are the autobiographical threads, through which he presents the universal problems of human nature. He deals with social, political and moral issues in his paintings, both historical and contemporary, such as the past civil war in Spain and the current political situation in Poland. Apart from multi-faceted genre scenes, Martwy paints intimate figurative portraits within spaces that depict small narrative, often erotic, incidents.

More of Juliusz Martwy’s work and contact information may be found at the artist’s Behance site:  https://www.behance.net/juliuszlewandowski

Dick Grayson

Artists Unknown, Dick Grayson

The youngest in a family of acrobats known as the “Flying Graysons,” Dick Grayson watched as a mafia boss killed his parents in order to export money from the circus that employed them. Bruce Wayne, secretly the vigilante Batman, took him in as his legal ward after witnessing their deaths, and eventually as his sidekick, Robin.

Throughout Dick’s adolescence, Batman and Robin were inseparable. However, as Dick grew older and spent more time as the leader of the Teen Titans, he decided to take on the identity of Nightwing to assert his independence (other teenaged heroes would later fill in the role of Robin). His Nightwing persona was created by writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Pérez, and first appeared in Tales of the Teen Titans #44 (July 1984).