From the cover of her collected works
Dorthea Antonette "Dori" Seda (1951 – February 25, 1988) was an Underground Comics artist who lived and worked in San Francisco where she met and co-worked with other underground comic stars, including Robert Crumb.
Examples:
- Black Comedy: Just one thing: The name "Sylvia Silicosis" she used for herself? It was based on the fact that she had silicosis as a result of her own life choices.
- Comic Sutra: Two of her works feature a foursome which look... difficult.
- Cool and Unusual Punishment: In one story about hell. John Belushi has to make Adolf Hitler, the Marquis de Sade and Albert Fish laugh. John Wayne is married to Oscar Wilde. And Moe Howard is forced to watch My Dinner with Andre forever.
- Dominatrix:
- Hired by one curious guy. He gets literally addicted to this kind of sex, but then they have a row, and he decides to - date a gay guy, despite never having had any gay tendencies. And then, he likes it. Not sure whether this makes sense...
- And another story is about a woman who's a poor, suppressed employee by day and this by night. For the very boss who commands and punishes her during the day.
- Droste Image: On the cover of her Lonely Nights: Comics to read if the couple next door is fucking too loud. It shows the author with one of her comic books, and so on.
- Good Angel, Bad Angel: With the devil wearing a leather corset and stockings.
- Mud Wrestling: Subverted by her mudwrestling story. It's all about her talking with a guy about making a comic about mudwrestling, but she admits at the end that she doesn't know a single thing about it.
- Photo Comic: She also made several of them, appearing in them as "Sylvia Silicosis".
- Rage Against the Author: In one of her comics, her characters rebel against the way the story goes (it involves her Dori's stinky dog) and even leave the drawing paper at the end. Dori accepts and warns them of her cat (who's bigger than the characters) on the way out.
- Smoking Hot Sex: After sex, people sometimes are depicted with smoking genitals.
- A Threesome Is Hot: Actually, no threesomes in her work, but two foursomes (two men and two women each)
- Visual Pun: She made a cartoon about "cereal killers" and another one about bishop Tutu wearing a tutu.
- What Could Have Been: Her buddy Joe O. suggested her to draw another CAUP comic, where Sigmund Freud in hell has to psychoanalyze Harpo Marx - who stays in character all the time.
- Write Who You Know: Most of her stories even feature her as the main character and she's a known bon vivant who enjoyed drinking, smoking, taking drugs, and casual kinky sex.
