The website of Dutch artist Peter Welleman is a fun and unpretentious collection of his gay comic drawings. Quite cheeky some of them, all are drawn in a charmingly simple style. Not all innocent fun (well, maybe innocent isn't the correct word here), some of the drawings raises a more political tone. Many of the drawings sadly have only Dutch text, but the rest make the site well worth a visit. A refreshing site on the whole, I give it 4 out of 6 stars.

Click here to visit Peter Welleman's gay cartoon gallery.

Having reviewed the artwork of Paul Richmond earlier in this blog, it is interesting to note that in this new online gallery his work is much easier accessible. In addition to building a flashy but professional looking front-end for the gallery, a clearer sorting of the artworks makes visiting the gallery to a much better experience than earlier. The most interesting work is found in the gallery "Paintings", where poetic watercolours and collages give a sensitive treatment of questions of identity and sexuality. The "Cheesecake" gallery is all kitschy fun, a irreverent pastiche of American commercial painting in an Rockwellian vein. The gallery's heavy use of Flash makes the site rather slow, but it's very well worth a visit and recieves 5 out of 6 stars.

Click here to visit the Paul Richmond Studio.

The online gallery of the Californian artist Sam Frazier is neatly divided into two large sections: Photo and "Artwork" - which here doesn't at all mean that the photos aren't works of art. Neither section is uninteresting, both have many good artworks. The photos are mainly shot as to look as candid, intimate pictures of close friends or lovers in what mostly looks like their private lives. In the bondage-inspired "Restraint" section of the photos, the surroundings are naturally a bit rougher, but here as well the photos mostly give a feeling more of peace and harmony than of violent restraint. An interesting contrast, and in the other sections the feeling of snapshots of gays having a good time with their loved ones is very marked. All with a nice sense of composition and colour, the photos are well worth a look.

The "artworks" are divided into two sections again, photo collages and other collages. The photo based section is by far the most interesting, with its mystical, dreamlike quality. The incorporated nudes take on a symbolic, often haunting quality in the artworks, making this section possibly the one most worth a prolonged visit.

TrustFido.com has much interesting art from a very prolific artist, and I rate it 5 out of 6 stars.

Click here to visit TrustFido.com.