Patrick Conlon is a New York City illustrator and tattooist known for erotic graphic novels and fetish collaboration. He wrote and illustrated Swarm and co-created The Tranceptor Series with fetish artist Michael Manning. Tattoo clients have included Daniel Day-Lewis and a small umbrella piece on Rihanna; kink collectors mainly track his painted SM fantasy and Amerotica-era comics.
Tattoo Practice
In the 1990s Conlon worked at San Francisco’s Everlasting, returning when on the West Coast. In New York he has worked at East Side Ink and Graceland. In 2012 he opened Speakeasy Tattoo in Peekskill, New York—street tattoo craft beside erotic illustration, a familiar dual track in fetish art.
Tranceptor with Michael Manning
In the late 1990s Conlon designed characters and shared illustration with Manning on The Tranceptor Series. First volume: Tranceptor: The Way Station (Amerotica, San Francisco, 1998; ISBN 1-56163-211-2). By September 2004 they were producing the second book. Manning’s high-contrast fetish line and Conlon’s narrative painting made the collaboration a durable Amerotica title for collectors who already followed Manning’s solo books and wanted shared world-building in print.
Swarm
Conlon finished painted graphic novel Swarm volume 1 in 2002; NBM published it in June 2004 (ISBN 1-56163-396-8). Part 2 ran in Sizzle magazine and as a book in 2006. The erotic plot centers a matriarchy whose sexually active queen is serviced by a swarm of obedient males, then threatened by the Planet Eater—female rule and hive submission as painted sequential art.
Bibliography essentials: Conlon & Manning, Tranceptor: The Way Station (1998); Conlon, Swarm Vol. 1 (2004), with Swarm part 2 serialized then bound in 2006. For adult fetish readers, Conlon is the tattooist-illustrator who co-built Tranceptor and authored Swarm’s matriarchal smut epic—hive queens, servile males, and painted domination still cataloged next to Manning on serious fetish-comic shelves.
