Gahan Wilson 50 years of Playboy Cartoons

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Sort of a personal retaliation, my becoming editor of Shaft. The first time this journalistic abortion printed my name, they misspelled it. 1

WATCHING THE FIRST TWO EPISODES of the docuseries, I kept wondering how these women let themselves become ensnared in Hefner’s fantasy. Did they know what they were getting into?

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Widmer, Ted (Summer 2010). "R. Crumb, The Art of Comics No. 1". The Paris Review (193). Archived from the original on September 19, 2010 . Retrieved August 22, 2015. Hefner supposedly agreed with the decision. “This is what I always intended Playboy magazine to look like,” he was reported to say, no doubt grinning his denial. In the 1960s and 70s underground comics reacted to the implementation of the Comics Code by drawing comics about any controversial subject they could think of - mostly sex. Robert Crumb and Spain Rodriguez are big names in this area.

Garcia said that she’d been keeping records “for years” about the various misbehaviors of Hefner and his circle. Famous as the fuzzy tail was, it was the highly regulated life of a Bunny that attracted attention. The Bunny costume was designed for its sex appeal, but sex went nowhere in a Playboy Club: the Bunnies were not permitted to date any of the customers. Some of the Bunnies, however, wound up as Playmates. I would like to thank the membership of The International Animated Film Society: ASIFA-Hollywood for sponsoring my efforts to get this project off the ground during its first few years. In particular, I owe a debt of gratitude to ASIFA-Hollywood's president, Antran Manoogian. Without his unwavering support and valuable guidance this project would not exist. - Stephen WorthDespite the incomprehensible brevity of my introduction, I remember vividly the cover of the first issue of Playboy I ever saw, described in The Playboy Book as having “achieved notoriety when a strategically placed strand of seaweed mysteriously slipped out of place sometime during the printing process.” Below is the incriminating evidence, a copy of the salacious cover itself. Some comic artists cater to several specific fetishes, such as feet, high heels, leather boots, nylon and rubber. Italian artist Franco Saudelli (together with his artistic wife Francesca Casotto, who often modelled for him) was a master at depicting feet in such a way, that even the ones that have no sexual interest in them, start to understand the fascination some others have.

With his FEMALES BY COLE series, Cole began to dig deeper into the psychology of sex. The original title of the series is an indicator of Cole’s intentions: FEMALE SEX TYPES. Now that he could work with the gloves off , and not be constrained with a young audience (although admittedly, Cole and his comic book publishers rarely seemed to consider the sensitivities of their young, impressionable readers), Cole approached the topic of sex as directly and honestly as any humorist ever has. He had money enough to construct a fantasy—an elaborate Mansion with a circus in the surrounding grounds. He lived in the fantasy. Said he: “I created a world of my own where I was free to live and love in ways most of us only dream about.”During the Esquire years, from 1940 to 1946, Vargas usually prepared a total of four preliminary studies for each published painting. Three of these were drawn on a fine tissue paper, the fourth on a heavy vellum parchment paper. The three tissues showed increasing detail from one state to the next until the parchment state which, because of the paper's colour and texture, was almost identical to the final painting. These studies would often be drawn with the model as a nude, Vargas simply adding the clothing to the final painting for publication. At Playboy, Vargas did one tissue and occasionally a few, parchment studies for each published painting.

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Benson, John; Groth, Gary (2009). "Introduction". In Groth, Gary (ed.). Humbug. Vol.1. Seattle, WA: Fantagraphics Books. ISBN 978-1-60699-179-4.