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 Happy birthday Cam, you’ve come of age. Yep, it’s now 21 years since Canadian artist Patrick Fillion created the half-human/half-pussy creature Camili-Cat, of the alien race known as Felinoids, whose homeworld was destroyed when he was just a child; he now roams the galaxy in the hopes of someday finding other survivors of his species. Apart from his piercing green eyes, cat-like ears and a body that would be the envy of God (if he/she existed), Cam is blessed with a foot-long, uncircumcised cock and a rear entry that never seems to be satisfied.
He was the first of Fillion’s increasingly erotic stable of characters and still one of the artist’s favourites. “It’s been amazing seeing him evolve and change over the years. He’s served as a buffer for me when I began discovering my own sexuality. He’s been a means by which I could express myself, my desires and my fantasies when I wasn’t sure where else to turn. In so many ways, he is my oldest, closest friend. That ends up making a pretty big impression on you as an artist. Plus, he’s beautiful, but isn’t really aware of it.”
Fillion was born in Quebec, Canada, in 1973 and grew up Catholic. “When I was five, my family moved to British Columbia, and that’s sort of when I got my first real taste of comic books. I started drawing when I was about three and it was really something I couldn’t seem to get enough of. While the other kids would run around and get into fights, I drew.”
He began to create his own characters around the age of seven and “I’d have to say that the sexual feelings started to influence my work around then, although at the time, I wasn’t completely aware of what it meant. So I started early!”
Camili-Cat’s first appearance was in 1986’s Magma Forces #5 and since then his further-supercharged adventures have appeared in a number of self-titled comics published by Class Comics, which Patrick and his partner, Fraz, set up in 2004, culminating in last year’s Camili-Cat 20th Anniversary Special in which the sperm is so free-flowing and plentiful that if it were real the pages would be permanently stuck together.
But Cam is just one of Patrick’s enclave of highly erotic creations, which include Naked Justice, a character who seems never to have spent a cent on fashion, or any type of clothing for that matter, apart from a mask. “I dunno if it’s the French blood in me, or the fact that I am gay, but I love sensuality. And sexuality doesn’t have to be devoid of sensuality. I really try to marry the two in all I do.”
But Patrick continues to return to his first ‘love’. “Cam has always had so much light in him; a real kindness. I think that is what endears him to me the most. It doesn’t matter who you are, what you look like, if you’re thin or fat, black or white... everyone gets a fair chance with him. It’s your actions that dictate who you are. To me that’s what a real hero is all about.”
Patrick Fillion comics are available from The Bookshop Darlinghurst.
www.patrickfillion.com
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