Colt Studios have been founded in 1967 by Jim French,
already famous photographer and illustrator. Initially, Colt had only one office to sell photographs and drawings, later switched to gay porn videos. Jim French was born in 1932, he attended the Philadelphia Museum School of Art between 1950 and '54, from 1955 to '57 served the U.S. Army. He settled in New York and became an illustrator under the name Arion preferring homoerotic drawings with an high romantic impact without frontal nudity (similar to Varga's style); years after the designs have a substantial change, focusing on issues far more manly as bikers, cowboys, wrestlers and other figures related to machism. French, along with partner Lou Thomas, founded the Colt Studios to produce and sell by mail comics, drawings and photographs. The business is successful and in 1974 he becomes the sole owner of the Company and transfers Colt's offices in California. He begins taking frontal nude pictures and directs the first gay porn films; Colt becomes the leader of the erotic male market after the historical Bob Mizer's "AMG". His men are virile, muscular, hairy; Colt's calendars, magazines and photo books are around the world. In 1999, Colt enters into Internet to avoid bankruptcy and returns a leader. Jim retires in 2003; these are some drawings, discovered in recent years and re-evaluated by critics. http://www.jimfrench.com/http://www.coltstudios.com/
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