Ken Landau:  The Cosmopolitan Cuthbert
                                             (1972 - Greenleaf Classics)  

     [-BELOW THE LINE-]    (cover partially withheld)    Not appropriate for children or adolescents.  Note that these books were published under the pseudonym VERN KENT.  'Cuthbert' was the title character of a comic strip that Landau was developing, and the interweb has several examples of those G-rated efforts, though I'm not sure if they were ultimately published.  Greenleaf Classics was a publisher that focused mostly on adult-paperbacks.  Landau took on the alias and Cuthbert was re-worked to be a pornographic comic.  This volume was one of three produced in the series by the partnership.  To be clear, most exhibits in this collection are of sequential-art, works turned sideways, or sequential-art turned sideways.  Out of 178 pages, by our lights, we can count only 32 that could be considered featured, stand-alone, cartoon compositions.  Think of these works as being most closely associated with what are now discussed as 'Tijuana Bibles' and while clearly tongue-in-cheek, these drawings (in a very loose, juvenile, style) are sexually explicit to the Nth degree.  So, these books should be kept put away from minors (and, speaking to their merit, I would say most adults too . . .).

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