'The Adventures of Misty' #1 (1972).
James McQuade is a U.S. erotic comic artist who made the erotic dystopian adventure comic book series 'Misty' (1972, 1973, 1991-1992) and the long-running pornographic humor comic 'The Sexy Adventures of Honey Hooker' (1975-?), which ran in Hustler magazine. Together with Dwaine B. Tinsley's 'Chester the Molester' (1976-1989), it was arguably the best known and longest-running comic feature in Hustler. James McQuade the cartoonist should not be confused with the Scottish footballer Jim McQuade, also born in 1933.
Life
James McQuade was born in 1933. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Korean War (1950-1953). According to findagrave.com, a James Anthony McQuade born on 1 January 1933 passed away in Nevada on 5 June 2021. This is possibly the same James McQuade as the cartoonist.
Misty
In 1972, James McQuade and his co-writer Gil Porter launched the erotic science fiction series 'Misty', through a first comic book published by Sherbourne Press. Heavily inspired by Jean-Claude Forest's European 'Barbarella' comic, it revolved around a similar attractive young woman, Misty, who lives in a dystopian future. The world is ruled by the International Destiny Machine and the humanoid robot GODD. These tyrannical forces dictate how people should live their lives. They keep track of personal data and spy on them through bracelets which everybody must wear. The I.D.M. also decides what jobs people should do and with whom they should reproduce. In the first episode, Dirk and Misty are a couple who engage in free-spirited sex, which is frowned upon by the state. The I.D.M. decides that Dirk should marry another woman. When he refuses out of love for Misty, he is murdered as a punishment. Misty manages to escape and becomes a fugitive. She mostly rebels against the system by having lots of promiscuous sex with other men.
'The Adventures of Misty' #8 (1992).
'Misty' combined erotic content with clever, satirical, counterculture tones. A decade later, the comic book developed enough of a cult following to receive a sequel, 'Misty and the Sun Jewel: Further Erotic Adventures of Misty' (1983), published by the publishing house Nuance from Van Nuys, California. Between April 1991 and August 1992, Apple Press published 'The Adventures of Misty' in their 'Forbidden Fruit' comic book series. It reprinted the first two stories, but McQuade also wrote and drew new storylines, enough to last 12 issues.
'The Adventures of Honey Hooker'.
The Adventures of Honey Hooker
In June 1974, publisher Larry Flynt established his own erotic magazine, Hustler, which appealed to readers with more specific fetishes. Much like Hugh Hefner's Playboy, it also offered articles about political and social topics, always from a left-wing progressive viewpoint. Hustler also imitated Playboy's erotic cartoons and comics, though with far raunchier content and black comedy. McQuade's erotic comic strip 'The Adventures of Honey Hooker' (1975-?), for instance, was Hustler's answer to Playboy's 'Little Annie Fanny' (by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder) and Penthouse's 'Wicked Wanda' (by Frederic Mullally and Ron Embleton). Just like its two examples, McQuade's comic featured a big-bosomed young woman in comical-satirical situations which often left her in the nude. In typical Hustler style, however, 'Honey Hooker' was far more blunt. Like her name implies, the red-haired woman is a prostitute, which offers the perfect excuse to have several explicit sex scenes. Some episodes take place in the present, others in a historical setting. Some gags are set in reality, others feature more physically impossible gags. Honey Hooker was first introduced to Hustler's readers in the seventh issue (January 1975). Hustler published a compilation book as early as 1977. Later in its run, 'Happy Hooker' was continued by other artists, including Howard Darden, Fred Fernandez, and Tom Garst.
Other cartoonists and comic artists who published in Hustler have been Aurelio Bevia, Mark Bode, Dave Choe, Gary Hallgren, Diego Jourdan Pereira, Hawk Krall, Aaron Lange, Tanino Liberatore, Don Lomax, Mats!?, Tayyar Ozkan, Steamy Raimon, Johnny Ryan, Adam Rust, Tom Simonton , Lorenzo Sperlonga, Ibrahim Tapa, Dwaine B. Tinsley, Bob Vojtko, Skip Williamson and S. Clay Wilson.
Other comics
In June 1975, McQuade's six-page story 'The Troth of Thanatos' ran in issue #4 of Barbarian Comics, a fantasy/sword & sorcery comics magazine edited by Bob Sidebottom. McQuade's comic starred the character of Ull, the Viking Raider, who also appeared in a story by Anthony Jamison in the same issue. Some of his comics also ran in Strange Sex Stories (Forbidden Fruit, April 1994). When his 'Misty' run at Apple Press came to an end, McQuade also created the one-shot comic book 'The Nine Lives of Leather the Cat' (1993) for this publisher.
'The Troth of Thanatos' (Barbarian Comics #4, 1975).