4 Pin-Up Titles: Pin-up (Alain Aslan) [jpg]; The Pin-Up Art of Bill Ward (2006) (Fantagraphics)[CBZ]

4 Pin-Up Titles: Pin-up (Alain Aslan) [jpg]; The Pin-Up Art of Bill Ward (2006) (Fantagraphics)[CBZ]; The Pin-Up Art of Humorama (2011) (Fantagraphics)[CBR]; and Classic Pin-Up Art of Jack Cole (2010) (Fantagraphics)[CBR]

Pin-up (Alain Aslan) [jpg]

A nice book collecting the art of Alain Aslan from the 1960s, 1970, 1980s. I have seen his good girls art on the covers of Metal Hurlant and Schwermetall magazine but didn't know who he was because I couldn't decipher his signature. Sexy women art from the 1960s and 1970s. Non computer generated. The book is French.





The Pin-Up Art of Bill Ward (2006) (Fantagraphics)[CBZ]

In those countless cheap and long forgotten men's humor magazines, Ward's voluptuous "girly" drawings shared the pages with photos of Bettie Page and Mamie Van Doren, and pin-up cartoons by the likes of Archie's Dan DeCarlo and Playboy magazine's Jack Cole. Thumbing through those digests, it quickly becomes evident that Ward was Humorama's dominant pin-up cartoon artist. His mastery of the Conte crayon allowed him to produce unparalleled textures, including the wonderful sheen on satiny curve-hugging dresses and on black thigh-high stockings that became Ward trademarks. Ward's other trademark, of course, was his penchant for drawing extremely well endowed women accentuated by tiny waists, and whether playing the role of office secretaries, arm candy at cocktail parties or vamping it up in a boudoir, his women played to multiple fetishes adorned in opera-length gloves, lacy lingerie, and five-inch stiletto heels. Sometimes bawdy, but never tawdry, Ward's top-heavy Humorama women always managed to maintain their allure, innocence and glamour that made Torchy so popular.




The Pin-Up Art of Humorama (2011) (Fantagraphics)[CBR]

During the 1950s, under the Humorama banner, Abe Goodman churned out scores of cheap digest-sized magazines that featured cheesecake photos and single panel pin-up cartoons. The digests featured the likes of Playboy's Jack Cole, Archie's Dan DeCarlo and glamour girl legend Bill Ward. In addition to these three pin-up cartooning luminaries, other notable who contributed to the pages of the Humorama digests included longtime illustrator Jefferson Machamer; Basil Wolverton, who influenced a generation of underground cartoonists; Mad's Dave Berg ("The Lighter Side"); and future syndicated cartoonists George Crenshaw ("Belvedere"), Bill Hoest ("The Lockhorns") and Brad Anderson ("Marmaduke").




Classic Pin-Up Art of Jack Cole (2010) (Fantagraphics)[CBR]

This beautifully reproduced selection of quirkily elegant, sensual pin-up art from Jack Cole's 1950s career as the premier Playboy cartoonist shows that there was far more to Cole than his brilliant Plastic Man.




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