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Say hello to Zach Brunner, the Instagram illustrator with a knack for reimagining costumed heroes as hairy, gay daddies, and who also loves to portray domestic sweetness between gay men.
Talk about a mash-up!
Brunner, who is based in New York, got his start at an ad agency before deciding to go freelance. Since then, he’s illustrated a graphic novel titled The High Cost of Happily Ever After and launched the Dandy Collection, a series of drawings depicting gay men in affectionate, at-home situations. He also specializes in reimagining iconic heroes from animated films, comic books and video games as hairy, husky gay men.
Needless to say, Brunner has amassed a following. At the time of this writing, he has more than 79,000 followers on Instagram.
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“I make geeky pop-culture art through a queer lens,” Brunner told Dandy Queer Art. “I want my work to be as aggressively gay as possible.”
In the same interview, Brunner names “Butts and balls” as his favorite subjects to draw.
It shows. Have a look at some of our favorite work from Brunner’s portfolio. For the record, these are generally pretty SFW. Head over to his Instagram to see him push boundaries.
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rangerwilcox
nice illustrations!
Mostlikelytobedownvoted
Fantabulous shit right there.
bachy
Nice to see body hair making a comeback in these illustrations. The obsession with having it all removed always struck me as oddly fastidious– like a new articulation of Puritanism.
Creamsicle
I think body hair is making a comeback generally. It really depends on the audience. There is a lot more appreciation for body hair and beards than there was even 10 years ago.
surfnspy
I think the obsession with no body hair came about as a result of AIDS ravaging the gay community in the 80’s. I think shaved smooth seemed clean, young, virginal, and thus uninfected.
chuckfck88
Another gay artist not showing the full spectrum of body shapes. Yes please show more hunky, beefy men. We need more of that in our community so we can shame those that don’t fit in. Sad.
Creamsicle
You can commission him to draw whatever you’d prefer to see.
Rossco63
If you checkout his Instagram he does do different body shapes.
BennyTheHill
You don’t like the fact that the gay male community abhors fat and ugly men? Well, too bad! We don’t want them anywhere near us. We even cringe when we see them in our gay spaces. We snub them all the time. Can’t they discern the message we’re bluntly sending them, or are they too dumb to understand? We like fit, muscular, handsome dudes, not a bunch of fat, ugly freaks.
tjack47
I like the illustrations.