What’s new
Only in New York?
21st September 2026
Today’s new artist is the American Knox Martin, best known for his gigantic 1970s New York murals, but who also produced some imaginative drawings, including his 1972 Alice in Wonderland series. See Martin’s highly original work now by clicking here.
In your face
18th September 2026
Today’s new artist is the inimitable Keith Haring, lost to us too young to AIDS. We have a great collection of his work, together with four important folios including all the Manhattan Penis Drawings and his last portfolio, Apocalypse. See Haring’s work now by clicking here.
More risqué Italian comics …
16th September 2026
More erotic comics today with Italian artist Gabriele Di Caro – the short vignettes of Beneath Paradise, and both complete episodes of his remarkable The Sweetest Fruit, an intriguing sex-permeated story set in 1950s small town America. See Di Caro’s work now by clicking here.
A brave new world of colour
14th September 2026
A British artist now living and working in New York, Cecily Brown is today’s new offering. See her dynamic colour-filled world of human interaction ‘Where, When, How Often and With Whom’ now by clicking here.
A uniquely naked encounter
12th September 2026
Today’s new addition is the Mexican artist José Luis Cuevas, with his Sade-inspired Charenton, but especially with his remarkable album Self-Portrait with Model, more than a hundred drawings recording this uniquely intimate encounter. See Cuevas’s work by clicking here.
Minimal French dressing
10th September 2026
Two new portfolios today from Jean Berque, one of our favourite artists – his 1932 illustrations for Verlaine’s poems about women which you can see here, and his 1947 portfolio to accompany Ronsard’s love poems, which are here. They’re some of his best, enjoy them!
Italian erotic
8th September 2026
Another master of the Italian erotic comics scene is today’s new artist, as we bring you no fewer than seven of the great Giuseppe Manunta’s brilliant graphic ‘fumetti’. Read them all now, including three complete stories, by clicking here.
Strawberry, chocolate (and vanilla?)
4th September 2026
Today’s new artist is Aurélia Aurita, the idiosyncratic French cartoonist who rather shocked her readers with her autobiographical love-and-lust story Fraise et Chocolat (Strawberry and Chocolate). You can see this and her earlier book Angora by clicking here.
Italian style
2nd September 2026
Today’s new artist is the Italian cartoonist Stefano Mazzotti, with no fewer than four of his works, including the story of Casanova and his infatuation with the mysterious ‘castrato’ young singer Bellino. Read about Mazzotti and see his work now by clicking here.
Important recent updates
✨ Illustrator and portfolio lists
One of the most common requests we get (and the responses to the recent questionnaire confirm this) is that it would be really useful to have complete listings of all the artists and portfolios on the website – as of May 2026 728 artists and 2,003 portfolios!
So we’ve listened and heard … and by following this link you will find files with these listings in alphabetical order (and where there are several portfolios with the same name their artists will be in order too). The lists are in PDF format, so you can download, save and search them. They duplicate what you can already find in the artist and portfolio listings on the website, but if you’re really into erotic art and illustration and would like a quick ready reference, you should find these invaluable. Enjoy!
✨ Helping you to find your way around
You asked for it, we’ve done it – all the artists on the site now have a set of ‘Similar artists’ links at the end of their biography, so whether it’s bookplate artists, spanking artists, gay artists, whatever, you can cruise easily from artist to similar artist. Have fun!
✨ Hans-Jürgen Döpp, 1940–2025
Few people have shared their wisdom, experience – and wonderful collection of erotic art – more than Hans-Jürgen Döpp, who sadly died last year at the age of 84. For more than half a century Hans-Jürgen devoted himself to the study and collection of erotic art, not as a marginal curiosity or a private indulgence, but as an essential part of human culture. Through his work as a scholar, teacher, curator, author and collector, he helped establish erotic art as a serious field of artistic and historical enquiry. He was an enthusiastic supporter of honesterotica, sharing more than 200 of his portfolios with us, helping to make the website a unique resource of erotic art that would otherwise have been lost to the world. Read our tribute to Hans-Jürgen here.
✨ The difficult mirror
Artists, childhood, and the challenge of looking
At a time of growing concern about online child safety, we are very aware of how we handle the sensitive subject of depictions of children in art, especially ‘erotic art’. We have added an important Themes and Topics article here, which helps explore how artists over time have depicted naked children, and why it is as important to think seriously about what art is for and how we look at and experience it as about what is actually being depicted. Read the piece and see what you think.