I have always liked this little series of pictures by the artist, Keith, for reasons which I explain below. Fragments of it have long circulated amongst internet art groups, usually as small, indistinct images. I've have always wanted to 'restore' them so that they are easier on the eye and was finally prompted to do so when I discovered a number of frames which were previously unknown to me and which filled in major elements of the story line. These images are the result.
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The story concerns a 'punk' named Darryl. Darryl is one of Keith's stock characters. In the UK, 'punk' refers simply to those who follow rebellious, punk rock fashions, like the blue mohican Darryl is sporting here. In the US it has much wider 'bad boy' connotations, which I only dimly grasp, but I think the situation here is clear. The detailing of the bottle is nice, don't ask me what the orange liquid is!
My 'restoration' work on these pictures is limited in the main to
enlargement of the image and penciling over the figure outlines and
dialogue boxes to make them sharper and clearer. This removes some of
the original subtlety in a few places where Keith where used different colours to
delineate a boundary instead of a hard outline (e.g. Darryl's pecs) but I
have tried to use restraint and I think it does achieve better clarity. In this picture I also enhanced background colours a little where the boundaries seemed indistinct. The writing on the sign shows the 'faded' look I started with.
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This picture shows the main reason why I like the series so much, the cop dressed in oh-so-short shorts which reveal muscular, hairy thighs. Indeed, Darryl's sighting of them seems to have prompted an instant orgasm. The circular badge on the cop's shorts (a sexy detail) appears to say MAD Patrol but I don't know what that refers to, apart from the obvious pun. I was tempted to remove the strangely canted house in the background but decided to respect the original intent.
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There's a nice sense of struggle here, mainly provided by the cop. Readers will know from previous posts that I like the 'click-click' moment where the handcuffs give the cop control over the arrestee. The fact that Darryl is now nude, his yellow underwear/swimwear trampled underfoot, makes it all the more sexy. The punk's exaggerated feet will also delight enthusiasts of that fetish. The detailing of the toes, slightly baby-like, truly captures their essential appeal. Darryl's protest is suitably insulting (shorty) but the 'storm trooper' bit doesn't seem derogatory enough to me. I like the cop's reponse, it might sound punchier if 'crack' was substituted for 'ass' or is 'wax' a pun on 'whacks'?
In picture 3, I fiddled with the shading on Darryl's six pack since the original detail was very faint.
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Darryl is cuffed and made
to grovel, while the arresting Officer examines his discarded
swimsuit like a sniffer dog. One suspects that the baton casually
angled towards Darryl's rear may also be involved in the cavity
search. From this angle, the earlier threat to wax his ass appears to
be not entirely without merit! A second Officer looks on, leaning
casually on the police car at a somewhat improbable angle, but he
looks very handsome in his sun-glasses and slightly menacing. It's a
nice study. There's almost two pictures in one here with a slight
discontinuity in perspectives between foreground and background
(there's a similar effect in picture 2)
I think this must be
the quintessential 'short shorts' picture. We get a splendid rear
view showing buns tightly cupped and divided by the centre seam and
in the background, a front view with lump, highlighted by creasing
lines and the fly seam diving into the groin. The turn ups on the
legs are a great touch emphasising the cop's meaty thighs.
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Back at the station the
inevitable occurs as Officer 'Rocky' delivers his ultimatum and,
anticipating a positive response, begins to shrug off his shirt.
Officer Jones produces his own baton. This is a centrepiece drawing
of the set but is not entirely successful, Darryl's starting to look
a little musclebound and Rocky's strip act isn't quite right, but I
like the way the underside of his thighs catch on the edge of the
desk.
I really struggled with
clarifying this picture, the original was very faded and blurry and
Keith, the artist, relied a lot on just colours to create boundaries
and shading. My addition of hard lines looks heavy handed in places
but I say in my defence that the bright orange and brown background
colours on the scan I'm working from needed to be contained and
pushed back. I added quite a lot of over-shading on the bodies to
show the musculature and restored some hair on Rocky's body which was
very faint. Apologies to the artist!
The truncated series that
circulates amongst fetish art groups normally ends here. The pictures
which follow were provided to me by fellow collectors after I
appealed for more information about 'Keith' and this set. These
images have less fetish content, uniforms are shed and sex rears it's
head, but they are not entirely devoid of fetish interest.
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Jones' elegant
figure and the shorts pushed down round his thighs are highlights of
this picture as the sexual scene gets going. Despite all the waving
of batons by the Officers, they seem to refrain from striking their
victim.
Happily, the
participants seem to have regained their original appearance in this
picture, continuity is something of a burden for hand artists, but
faces are crucial for identification, particularly when there are no
clothes to help out.
In this group of images I
did little more than enlarge and pick out outlines. The square screen
which cuts across Officer Jones' six pack is a distortion caused by
the original scan and would probably be better removed altogether but
that was further than I wanted to go in this exercise.
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Darryl's humiliation
continues, but he is obviously not the first to fall victim to Rocky
and Jones. The pixilation of Rocky's body hair completely defeated me
here, this could only be remedied by a major alteration -
erasure and re-drawing.
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Officer Jones gets another
nice treatment by the artist here, he shows a handsome foot. Darryl's
stretched mouthful is well captured too. There are more pixilation
problems for Rocky (face and body hair). He has become noticeably the
less dominant of the two cops in this sequence.
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Two more cops spot what Jones and Rocky are up to and eagerly
start undressing in the corridor outside. We get a final glimpse of the
cop's uniforms and move into gang bang territory. The original air of
vindictive menace has now, sadly, almost entirely disappeared.
Nevertheless Darryl's ass, dripping with cum is a sexy highlight - plus
more cute feet. This is another of Keith's 'split' images with some
curious exaggerated perspectives.
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A moment of pure slapstick just in case you doubted the gravity
of the situation! But I'm not sure that it's a good idea to depict this
mishap in the midst of a parade of racial stereotypes that is so
politically correct that it's incorrect! Darryls cum covered body is
still the erotic centrepiece of the picture. His powerful ass jet must
be unique in erotic art. Is this cum or piss?
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I freely admit that orgies are not my thing, unsatisfying whether as
fantasy or reality. In this situation it's hard for a graphic artist to
outdo modern photography, but Keith's inset panel showing a double
penetration probably is pretty good, exploiting the artist's freedom to
defy the laws of physics. The task of visually disentangling bodies in
this scrummage is not easy and there are some strange things going on in
the vicinity of Darryl's ass which I couldn't work out, nor the cock
emerging from his thigh area. I do like the lines of Choi's body (left
foreground) showing clean, sensuous curves.
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Another 'dual' picture,
which is a neat way of summarising an orgy. Rocky and Jones have
paired off and left Darryl to the new arrivals. We discover Choi has
a nice line in sleazy dialogue (and him such a young lad too!) but as
for Luna's contibution - suck my dick - oh dear! Once again here,
it's the figure of Darryl that seems to have had the lion's share of
the artists attention.
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The foreground trio
make a decent rough sex image, with an enjoyable conjunction of
orgasms. I like the idea that Luna produces so much forceful cum that
it sprays back out - that's funny and sexy. Rocky
and Jones at the back have been drawn in antique, Kama Sutra style -
explanatory rather than realistic so they don't seem to fit. You may
not spot it at first but Choi on the left is holding Rocky's foot -
presumably to lick it, continuing the foot fetish ingredient that
recurs throughout this series.
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The boys produce a
glorious mess which Darryl wallows in. You can form your own opinions
about the nature of the fluids flying around in this picture. The
sprays seem to have the gloopy appearance of cum but there are large
pools of yellow liquid on the floor (which I have gently highlighted,
since the outlines were very indistinct). The original
scanning process seems to have cropped important detail top left - as
well as the artist's signature.
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It turns out the whole
thing was a set-up. Darryl is reunited with his swimwear - a nice
detail. This ending is a bit disappointing for fetishists like me,
but it's geared for publication in a magazine for general consumption
of course, so we can't grumble about that, I suppose. The dialogue is
a bit naff, the cop talks like a hairdresser who's just finished a
pensioner's weekly perm!
My restoration effort on
this picture revealed the yellow shorts in the officer's hand, it
looked (to me at any rate) like a towel or rag before. The cop
appears to be putting his wallet back into his pocket as though he
has just paid Darryl - or perhaps it's just his pager.
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The images that I was
originally missing from this series turned out to be less exciting
than I had hoped but I am very glad to have found out more about the
talented 'Keith'. My 'restoration' exercise was fun for me and
revealed elements in the pictures which I had previously missed. I
hope it has made the work more accessible for others as well and that
Keith will forgive me for messing around with his work, at least I
have restored his name to the pictures.
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