
On the drawing I called
Speso Troppo: this one certainly got some strong reactions! In retrospect, it was probably not the finest choice for
Romantic Spanking Month because the participants are non-human, reducing its eroticism considerably, and it was probably disciplinary on top of that. And no one was sure what species they were, not even me! To Willjohn they looked like
Komodo Dragons, while Butch suggested
ogres, which may be correct - they're too tall for gargoyles, I think. In its defense, it was recognizably M/F and was rather well-drawn by
Klauth.
CSR readers will be glad to know that I mostly shy away from non-human spankings, even one I discovered myself in
Adventure Comics while searching through Supergirl's early Bronze Age material (it was an alien father/son scene of very little interest). There's also one from
Crack, I believe, but I don't plan to post it, just put it in the
Comics Spanking Data Base. I don't think I have any more in my files.
Speaking of the
CSDB, Dan asked about spankings in the work of
Milton Caniff. When I designed the
CSDB, I used a limited number of columns (that is, fields) because I wanted them to be displayable on the web page without needing a horizontal scroll bar, something I find really obnoxious. The end result was that there is no column for "CREATORS" (or "GENRE" for that matter) and so no search query on the DB itself is possible by creator.
However, because I do list significant creators under the "COMMENTS" column you can always either dump the entire contents (
the default) or query the DB using the available criteria (Title, Characters, Years, etc.) and then use your browser's built-in search facility (usually found under the "Edit" menu, or by the shortcut CTRL+F) to search for a particular creator. I did this for "Caniff" and found this
Mother/Daughter scene from Caniff's other famous strip,
Steve Canyon. For various reasons, none of the other three scenes of interest from
Steve Canyon yield Caniff's name (the spanking is off-panel in one so it's not in the DB, and I simply forgot to mention Caniff's name in the other two). I may change the CSDB some time, but that's a huge effort. I'll probably just continue to try to mention important creators under "Comments".
Daring Love #17 was well-received, I'm glad to say, and as I expected. It was a very solid and romantic M/F scene despite its ostensible disciplinary nature (something that's pretty common). Dan asked about the definition of "splash page" and while I have seen it defined in various ways, I believe the correct definition is "The first page of a story within a comic book, usually 1/2 or full page, and with the story's title lettered in large characters" (my definition). One source claimed it was any full-page drawing within the story, but that makes no sense to me.
And that's it for the Valentine's Day updates. Please join me in three days (four officially) for the most historically significant of the 4 Romance Comic spankings we're seeing this month. We'll also have a 100% human M/F spanking scene involving a very innocent young couple that I think everyone will like

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