Can you speak about your depictions of sexuality, women, and power? NF I am fascinated by your images of sex, especially in Fornicon. This is a gift book one might be wise to present in plain brown wrapping. The watercolors are breezy and funny, but their explicitness will surely offend some, as is Ungerer's wont. The book depicts frogs as kinky, sensual, erotic creatures, performing sexual acrobatics and being affectionate with each other. His watercolors sketch frogs in all manner of compromising positions, obviously enjoying themselves. Ungerer, author/illustrator of Far Out Is Not Far Enough, here creates an amphibian Joy of Sex. The artist has long dabbled in erotic drawings, including an illustrated Kama Sutra starring frogs, titled “Joy of Frogs.”Ī collection of humorous cartoons featuring frogs in positions that the Karma Sutra has never even thought of. If you detect a hint of bawdiness in Ungerer’s tone, you’re not off base. I have my fingers in so many behinds,” he told Art News. “I’ve done over 150 books, I write as much as I draw, and I have my sculptures and my architectural designs. He began his career in New York in the mid-1950s, living there until the ‘70s when he moved to a farm in Nova Scotia as a form of self-imposed exile. Now, at 83 years old, Ungerer lives with his wife in a remote region of Ireland near Cork. Photo courtesy Musées de la Ville de Strasbourg. © Tomi Ungerer/Diogenes Verlag AG, Zürich. Collection Musée Tomi Ungerer, Centre international de l’Illustration, Strasbourg.
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