User talk:Erichvongotha

Erich von Götha (pseudonym of Robin Ray) was born in 1930 in London, UK, and has also worked under the pseudonym Baldur Grimm. He gained fame with his erotic and above all sadomasochist content. In the early 2000s he had solo exhibitions; in the Mondo Bizzarro Gallery in Bologna titled Sweat Tears & Reflections, at Larmes d'Eros in Paris and Skull in Brussels. Von Götha studied drawing and painting for four years in London. He has exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and worked with Dr Tuppy Owens on various erotic publications including designing and illustrating for The Sex Maniac's Diary for 13 years. He produced his first strip cartoons for Club International London, and for Hans Möser in Germany in the 70s. In the 1980s he single-handedly produced the English erotic comic magazine Torrid under the pseudonym Erich von Götha-Janssens with occasional contributions from the English erotic artist Lynn Paula Russell and the French artist Antoine de la Rosiére. Without his knowledge, the strips that appeared in the first 16 issues of Torrid were published later in the French magazines YES and Bédé Adult, and in Italy. The consequent falling-out with his UK publishers led to BédéAdult publishing his work in France and later most of Europe and the USA, where he became well-known with the works Conte a Rebour (for YES) and co-illustrating (with Georges Levis; the latter's last work) Crimes et Delits. His most famous work is The Troubles of Janice set in the time of the Marquis de Sade and featuring his best known eponymous heroine. He has so far completed four Janice albums, and three Twenty albums set in the near future, with the participation of the French author and historian of erotica, Bernard Joubert. All four have now been re-published in luxury format in Paris. In addition there are several books published in London by EPS and in Paris by Astarte; including a lost playlet by Pierre Louys discovered by the publisher. Drawings and paintings are in many private collections. He is currently creating animated episodes of Twenty 4 and Janice 5.Erichvongotha (talk) 03:48, 28 March 2010 (UTC)