Sexy Women of Comics

[dr_mabeuse]

Reading about the passing of Will Eisner, the comic-strip genius, made me think about sexy women in comics and the artists who drew them.

I’m an old timer (once had the very first three additions of Mad Magazine till my mom threw them out. Oh, the pain!) and I popped my first boners looking at the women drawn by Wallace Wood, who was one of Mad's first artists. Wood could capture the gleam of a lipsticked lip and the shadow of a thrusting breast better and with more style than any artist I’ve ever seen. The man had a way with light and shadow that still astonishes me.

Can't find any of his outrageously sexy women, but here's a taste:

http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/wood.htm

Check out the blond in red hafway down the page: the lips, the seamed stockings, the waist and breasts. Pure Wood.

Who do you think draws or drew the sexiest women in comics?

---dr.M.

 

[rgraham666]

Always had a soft (and hard) spot for Will Eisner's women in The Spirit. Especially P'Gell.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

A guilty pleasure, but I Like Bode girls They aren't so much sexy as saucy, but his style is so distinctive you can't miss a Bode broad.


For in your face sexiness I'll take rebecca. But I suspect that has a lot more to do with subject matter than it does artistic appreciation

 

[Guest]

Mother's have thrown away fortunes. If my mother had refused to let me open any of my matchbox cars I got as a kid, I'd be worth millions now.

As prebescent boys in a simpler era, we had to work to find eroticism. Science Fiction covers was one big place, until we could get access to Playboy etc. The artwork at a certain subelty to it. And then the magazines were anything but subtle (in the 70's).

Now today, kids have the internet and cable tv for early exposure, and a huge quantity of choices. And ironically, they end up preferring magazines like Maxim where they see scantily dressed women instead of the explicit airbrushed woman of Playboy.

Random thoughts--I'm not sure what that all means.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

A guilty pleasure, but I Like Bode girls They aren't so much sexy as saucy, but his style is so distinctive you can't miss a Bode broad.


For in your face sexiness I'll take rebecca. But I suspect that has a lot more to do with subject matter than it does artistic appreciation

Comeon, Colly! Give us a link!

Is that Vaughan Bode? Did you ever hear how he died?

I heard it was erotic asphyxiation during masturbation. I know he died very young.

---Zoot

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Comeon, Colly! Give us a link!

Is that Vaughan Bode? Did you ever hear how he died?

I heard it was erotic asphyxiation during masturbation. I know he died very young.

---Zoot

eeep.

I'm awful at links

http://www.monsterscollectibles.com/vaultpics/bodebroadfairymeat.jpg

Not my fav, but defintely Bode.

some rebecca

http://www.unrealx.com/comicbooks/housewivesplay.htm

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Didn't know how he died. Sad that those with such talent leave all too soon

 

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Frank Cho

 

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Milo Manara

 

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Frank Frazetta

 

[oggbashan]

Eric Stanton

Try using Google for images.

Og

 

[Couture]

Druuna

Someone already beat me to Manara.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Oooh geez...

Look what I just found.

http://dmoz.org/Adult/Arts/Comics/AVS/

That's kind of nice, isn't it?

I love Ignacio Noe, too:

http://www.merrytoon.com/icomics/

Now I've really got to get to the gym.


---Zoot

 

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[Remec]

some rebecca
http://www.unrealx.com/comicbooks/housewivesplay.htm

I have some of those comics...<g> I keep thinking I need to send off for the collected graphic novels, but just haven't gotten around to it. hehehe

 

[NoJo]

Wally Wood, undoubtedly the king of sexy cartoon women. But even Jack Davis's gals could manage to get my 10-year-old cock hard. Funny that Will Elder, whose women were the least sexy of the three main Mad artists, ended up being the one commissioned for Little Annie Fanny for Playboy.

Incidentally, Dr. M, I still have 1950's editions of all the first four Ballantine mad books, + "Mad for Keeps", as well as the Mad CD, which has every issue from 1952 to 1990!

I really liked "Oh Wicked Wanda" in Penthouse.

Robert Crumb's "shiny turd" Amazon women (his description) were great, more funny than sexy.

I'm putting up my one of my old AV's in homage to Wallace.

 

[shereads]

Does pulp fiction cover art count as comic book art? Here's a fun site. One of the cover artists for Spicy Detective/Spicy Mystery has endless variations on damsels and vixens and dames in distress, but only one generic male hero and one bug-eyed goon.

The stockings are an inspiration. With seams and without.

http://www.vintagelibrary.com/pd.cfm?skey=S010505041110177830&pcode=girasol06

 

[shereads]

Oooh geez...

Look what I just found.

http://dmoz.org/Adult/Arts/Comics/AVS/

That's kind of nice, isn't it?

Eee! Free dirty cartoon pictures!

<leaping up and down, clapping hands>

 

[shereads]

Incidentally, Dr. M, I still have 1950's editions of all the first four Ballantine mad books, + "Mad for Keeps", as well as the Mad CD, which has every issue from 1952 to 1990!

I forgave my mother for throwing out my Mad Magazines when GWB took office. Alfred E. Neuman used to make me smile, now I want to shake some sense into him. "Yes, you worry!"

 

[shereads]

Eee! Free dirty cartoon pictures!

<leaping up and down, clapping hands>

Not free dirty cartoon pictures!

<not leaping, not so much clapping, more blushing/slinking away>

"We carefully recommend you join this site."

~ CyberAge

 

[shereads]

More stockings.

http://www.vintagelibrary.com/pd.cfm?skey=S010505041110177830&pcode=girasol09

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I just heard yesterday that Kelly Freas died. He was the artist who invented Alfred E. Neuman, though he was more of an illustrator than a cartoon artist. Did some great Sci Fi art too

Yeah, Joe. I have that Mad CD pack too, but it's just not the same as holding that trashy paper in your hand. The one thing that amazed me as I was reading those old issues though was what a tremendous influence early Mad magazine had on me, on my sense of humor, my writing, my outlook on life, the works. I didn't just read it, I studied it.

Another thing Wood could do better than anyone was space ship interiors. They just dripped with chrome and clear plastic and weird hoses. He was a master of surfaces.

I have the Wallace Wood adult compilation, called (as I recall. It's upstairs; too lazy to go look) "Naughty Woody", but it's not as good as the straight stuff he did, like the Terry & the Pirates parody (his Dragon Lady still makes me hard to this day) or Sooper Dooper Man.

And Rhino, I get the Bud Plant Catalog too, including the Naughty version. (That's where I got all my Wallace Wood stuff). It's a great outfit: terrific books, dirt cheap. Excellent catalog too. I guess Plant used to be a comic artist himself at one time, till he switched over to just selling the stuff.

His catalog's a must-have.

---Zoot