Claudia Corvette. From her tousled bedroom hair to her name-all the porn stars in this world take their names from supermodels and sports cars-she is adult entertainment's prototypical femme fatale. Her life is the collision of countless troubled-childhood cliches and grown-up wet dreams, projected onto her as surely as her videos project their blue light onto lonely men around the world.

From its first panel, How to Make Money Like a Porn Star draws the reader into the dark world of girls like Claudia, the men who fantasize about them, and the monsters who control them. In the hands of Rolling Stone writer Neil Strauss and illustrator Bernard Chang, this adult graphic novel weaves together black humor and blacker reality. Like all great American stories, it features humble beginnings, life-changing tragedy, stripping, abuse, implants, fame, addiction, bigger implants, abduction, gunplay, downfall, and even bigger implants. Not to mention a thousand shades of latex and L'Oreal.

Part parody, part morality tale, here is the truth about the porn life, its outsized visual splendor captured in a comic parade of doe-eyed centerfolds, its essence distilled in a story that will haunt every reader who has ever wondered where his next fantasy is coming from.

Author: Neil Strauss, Bernard Chang
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: It Books
Published: 10/01/2006
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.00w x 0.38d
ISBN: 9780060884055


Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 11/01/2005 pg. 60
Publishers Weekly 10/30/2006 pg. 44

About the Author
Strauss, Neil: -

NEIL STRAUSS is an award-winning writer for Rolling Stone and the author or coauthor of ten New York Times bestsellers. He splits his time between Los Angeles and wherever the Jonas Brothers are.

Chang, Bernard: -

Bernard Chang firmly planted his artistic roots in the comic book industry with his work for Valiant Comics, Marvel Comics, and DC Comics, which landed him a coveted spot on the Wizard Guide to Comics top ten artist list. Bernard has also illustrated two New York Times bestsellers, The Game and How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, and recently debuted a new children's book series through Blue Sky Press/Scholastic, The Black Belt Club. He received a bachelor's degree in architecture from Pratt Institute and currently lives in Los Angeles.