first time
drum
Some things you can’t forget. It was the summer of 1980. I had just moved to LA. I was 18. I had just had sex in a club with a half-dozen men while watching “El Paso Wrecking Company” out of the corner of my eye.
Later I was in Circus Books on Santa Monica Boulevard. I saw Guillermo, the handsome, dark-haired, horse-dicked guy from the movie, on the cover of a magazine.
It was Drummer magazine. I leafed through it. Leather. Hot Men. Ugly Men. Beards. Big Dicks. Jeans. Suits. Gym. Outdoors. Sex. Rope.
Then I saw the drum comics. My blood froze. My hands were shaking I was so excited. It was what I wanted. I paid as quickly as I could. My cock was throbbing.
I had many a throbbing, dripping cock looking through Bill Ward’s Drum.
this
site
With this site, I want to share the pleasure I got from Bill Ward’s drum over the decades.
It is stuffed with hundreds of leathery, masculine, cock-hardening dripping pages of drum comics for you to enjoy, and grows with each passing week as I add more of drum from over 30 years of Bill’s work.
Becoming a fan subscriber is easy and gives you alerts when there is new drum to see and enjoy. I ask no payment whatsoever for subscription, I share no subscriber information – it is truly purely for sharing the pleasure I had.
drum
the book
Digital images are great, but printed pages are even better. Talking to men who enjoy written pornography and visual sex imagery, computers are often in the way.
I hear you.
Owning a hundred or more Drummer magazines is one way to see Bill Ward’s DRUM, buying a book of the collected images is even better.
I’ve put together a book of 600 pages of digitally re-mastered drum comics to enjoy in-hand.
bill
ward
Bill was a gay graphic artist born 20th August 1927 in East London.
His publishing career began as a copyboy in newspaper publishing before becoming an art editor for children’s comics and then a graphic artist.
He lived a life deeply embedded in the gay community, biker community and leather community.
From that he brings a startling authenticity to drawings of sex between men, in permutations and geometries which seem both natural and amazing at the same time.
drum
The origin of the character drum in these comics is from Drummer magazine over a period of roughly 30 years.
Drum wanders through life, like a gay version of Huckleberry Finn, Candide, Tom Jones, Agathon, Demian, even Paul Atreides – his experience is a metaphor of the changes in gay culture from the 70’s to the 90’s.
He shows a pure joy in sex with men, which was groundbreaking at the time, when gay sex was punishable by imprisonment or worse, and even in liberal places it could destroy a career.
He also presents a gay man as macho, masculine, muscular without being “toxic”, or “hyper”, which is still hard to grasp today.
bill ward
x collab
A small group of artists are working with me to bring this work into the 21st century. Collaborating with Bill, they are re-interpreting his imagery with a modern view, and digital technology.
The results are spectacular, and I wish to thank early collaborators David Maldonado, Alex Prestia, and Chris Lindes
I have additional commitment for work from several artists including the world-famous Gengoro Tagame 田亀 源五郎, a major fan of Bill’s work.
bill ward
legacy
I’m lucky to have been a friend of Bill, who was very generous to me with his time and art (and body), and I have a collection of several hundred of Bill’s Drawings.
While they’re not drum comics, they do provide more visual pleasure from Bill and include all kinds of ugly bastards we love from Bill, bears, musclemen, daddies, and even a comic strip “Hunt” of your’s truly.
You will see some images published on this website from time to time from the developing publications.I’m also exploring turning Bill’s characters into full three-dimensional models to fabricate with digital printing technology, and am actively looking for collaborators in that space. You can read more on this website about that project.
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