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Title: The Glamour Girls of Bill Ward by Alex Chun, Bill Ward ISBN: 1-56097-531-8 Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Pub. Date: May, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Conte crayon king
Comment: I don't think Bill Ward sits easily with what are generally considered pin-up artists like Elvgren, Petty, Vargas and the few dozen others who created the genre over the last seventy years but his huge output from 1950 to 1975 (which is the basis of this handsome book) means his work has to be considered.
Examples of Ward's comic art, shown in several color covers (Love Diary, Love Confessions, Love Scandals, Heart Throbs, Flaming Love and Torchy) clearly show how good a draughtsman he was but the clean-up of the market in the early fifties meant he had to find another publications to work for. Abe Goodman's Humorama titles solved the problem. These were cheaply-printed digest size magazines full of bad jokes, cheesecake photos and girlie cartoons. The author Alex Chun says Ward produced thirty cartoons a month for Humorama titles and over twenty-fives years probably drew an amazing 9,000 pin-ups.
Ward's Humorama art was probably the only reason anyone bought these tacky publications. Because he had to produce so much work quickly he developed his own unique style of using Conte crayon to draw pin-ups. This had the advantage of showing tonal quality almost like an airbrush and when the originals (up to eighteen by twenty-four inches) were reduced to the digest size pages they looked impressively slick.
There are 117 whole page Ward pin-ups, all from his Humorama period, in this book. The majority are printed in four-color sepia with white highlights (the front of the book has an essay and examples of his early comic and color pin-up work) and the sexually suggestive, exaggerated females with their black stockings, filmy negligees, skin-tight dresses, coiffure hair and impossibly high stilettos leap of the page. If you are interested in this little corner of American male pop culture I doubt there will be a better book of Bill Ward's voluptuous art.
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Title: It's a Man's World: Men's Adventure Magazines, the Postwar Pulps by Adam Parfrey, Bruce Jay Friedman, Josh Alan Friedman, Mort Künstler, Bill Devine, Josh Alan Friedman, David Saunders ISBN: 0922915814 Publisher: Feral House Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Art of Ricky Carralero by Ricky Carralero ISBN: 0865620555 Publisher: SQP Pub. Date: 28 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Pin-Up Girls from Around The World by Fred Beltran, Thierry Frissen, Ian Sattler, Fred Beltran ISBN: 1930652828 Publisher: Humanoids Incorporated Pub. Date: 05 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Calendar Girl: Sweet & Sexy Pin-Ups of the Postwar Era by Max Allan Collins ISBN: 1888054786 Publisher: Collectors Press Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Al Williamson Adventures by Al Williamson ISBN: 1889317179 Publisher: Insight Studios Group Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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