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the cover of the second issue of a mosca immediately gives a warning: “for adults and naughty children,” and the content is filled with sex and sin. erotic and personal ads cover the front page, overlaid by an image of a blowjob to the clérigos tower! there are delicious ads like this one: “i’m married, 37 years old, a doctor, neat and very attractive, discreet. i wish to meet a transvestite who is affectionate, sweet, very feminine. or a beautiful woman, no matter age or color, but who can teach me how to make love. i would also like to contact a lesbian or a lesbian couple to join them. i own a house and a car. coimbra.” the insistence on neatness is recurrent in these ads, which is somewhat surprising amidst so many filthy intentions and desires! the first comic, safe sex by el pepe, narrates the tour of an american in bangkok, involving thai children and tv tuned to the playboy channel. vladimire smith presents tânia, a comic with dialogues and scenes identical to pornographic magazines like gina or tânia, which had significant circulation in the ’70s and ’80s. janus, portugal’s most cursed comic author, presents amor de pai (“father’s love”), distilling unconfessable desires, madness, incest, and death. at first, everything is sweet and mild, then comes music, alcohol, sex, and finally death, in an ethylized glimpse in jorge matos’s the serial killer. zac presents the revenge of a hotel employee against complaining and demanding guests. mário a. proposes a repetitive sequence of images of a smiling man wearing a cowboy hat, with random texts lacking any apparent connection. to close, blam! blam! by nikopaul, with a mosca circling the blood-stained floor. texts by erradiador on the blog my nation underground.

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a mosca #2, summer 1994, 24 pages, printed in black & white, 14.8x21 cm, porto.