Omaha Adult Entertainment: Revisiting Omaha: The erotica issue, in comics and beyond
Earlier this year, NBM Publishing’s “Amerotica” imprint packaged together the existing seven volumes of The Complete “Omaha” The Cat Dancer, and since I hadn’t read Omaha since the early ’90s, I requested a set, to see whether the series still seemed as groundbreaking as it once did. Cartoonist Reed Waller began writing and drawing his stories about a stripper with superior dancing skills in various underground comix anthologies in the late ’70 and early ’80s, then launched Omaha as a standalone series in 1984, with the help of writer Kate Worley. By then, the original underground comix boom had quieted, and regularly published, independent comics series for adults were fairly rare. Waller’s cute-yet-refined “funny animal” art, along with his and Worley’s elaborate, soap-y stories about Omaha and her artist boyfriend Chuck (the son of a mentally ill millionaire), marked Omaha as part of an emerging trend toward long-form, non-superhero comics. The characters were engaging, the narrative twisty, and the social commentary pointed.
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Filed by kingofomaha at September 17th, 2011 under Omaha adult entertainment