Translation courtesy of forward courtesy of ShareX's multi-language OCR automation and duckduckgo:

*To summarize: author is "critiquing" Capitalism and discussing power struggles in general under sexual lens rather than a materialistic lens (a la Marxism). [Author is likely a socialist- probably more the Einstein and MLK Jr kind of socialist, not the Stalin or Mao type. But you never know. :P]

In his words:

Erotic comics have been experiencing a resurgence of interest for some time. French publishers play it safe and lack curiosity. Too many reissues of great authors, too many translations in the detriment of the discovery of young talents. It was therefore necessary the authority of this Rhine capitalist to break the editorial straitjackets and impose a new and monosyllabic signature of formidable efficiency: Yxes... like the cross of St. Andrew on which the author is necessarily attached. He resembles his male characters enslaved to women: he is his own model and does not intend to leave this place to anyone else. Since the opening of his intimate blog (Graphic diary of a submissive) in 2006,

These years of SM drawings, created for the simple pleasure, allowed his technique to assert itself and succeed to the magical result of this Rhenish Capitalist. The only thing that doesn't have evolved — and we rejoice! — is inspiration. Yxes does not draw than men subjected to haughty dominatrix smoking cigarettes after cigarette. He is our tireless Sacher-Masoch of illustration, giving women their revenge on years of drawn slavery. Although this privatity, Yxes — a man of principles and conviction — reserves it only for mature women, at least in their thirties, such as the Rhineland Frau von Harbstahl. One day, I tried in vain to convince to draw dominas lolitas. "It's impossible! decreed- He obtuse. A good dominatrix has experience, not as a kid.

putting in images privileged moments "spent with some dominatrix who had a firm hand", Yxes testifies to a cruel humor and a taste for quotes and parody. Pastiches of covers of paperbacks, calendar pages, GREETING cards, in the manner of Pellaert, Kirby or Topor.

This is one of the many unpublished works of Yxes because, in terms of domination Feminine and submissive men, he has fertile imagination of maniacs. The Rhine Capitalist will be only the first of many whipping machines. Unless she comes back, always stronger and indestructible, in other adventures, as a heroine of fumetti adulti (Lucifera, Zara, Jacula!).

Bosser, another companion, editor of the confidential Doux Liens, he tried to seduce him to the crucial virtues of silk stockings, suffocating the faces, enclosing the testicles.

Three SM enthusiasts together, these are three deaf people talking, each his obsession. Later, Yxes and I arrived, in our categories respectively, to a common creation: The Hunt of the Countess Zaroff, a short story feminizing Ernest B. Schoedsack's masterpiece and Irving Pichel, he to the off-text drawings, me to the narration.

The chosen format, the composition boxes are an obvious tribute to these erotic pockets that are manufactured in Italy in the 1970s-90s and many of which were translated by Elvifrance and sold in station kiosks. The first episode contains all the elements of a modern saga, against a backdrop of crisis European and global. The twisted humor of Yxes will pass to the mill of the SM all the major problems of our industrial societies: unemployment, economic dumping, requalification, tax evasion, flexicurity, etc. Because The Rhine Capitalist, unlike the great utopias SM of yesteryear (from John Willie to Stanton's corseted reveries), is perhaps the very first political comic of its kind.

SM practices become the revealing a fierce class struggle, a drift of the markets scholarship holders, of social violence denounced with ferocious causticity. Under another pseudonym, Yxes also commits satirical drawings and Policies. The Rhine capitalist brings together her scathing vision of current events and her immoderate taste for dominatrixes. smoking cigarettes. each his obsession. Later, Yxes and I arrived, in our categories respectively, to a common creation: The Hunt of the Countess Zaroff, a short story feminizing Ernest B. Schoedsack's masterpiece and Irving Pichel, he to the off-text drawings, me to the narration.

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