Download or read book Classic Pin Up Art of Jack Cole written by Jack Cole and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.9px Arial; color: #424242}

Download or read book The Pin Up Girls of Jack Cole written by and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Pin Up Art of Dan Decarlo Volume 2 written by Dan DeCarlo and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: by Alex Chun & Jacob Covey For more than 40 years, Dan DeCarlo best known for his definitive renditions of Archie Comics' Betty and Veronica, two of comics' most beloved icons. But before joining Archie and unbeknownst to many, DeCarlo has honed his skills as a good girl artist for the Humorama line of digest magazines. Following the immensely popular The Pin-Up Art of Dan DeCarlo, this second volume once again displays DeCarlo's sexiest Humorama pin-up cartoons, and continues Fanatagraphics' dedication to showcasing the best of the classic pin-up cartoonists.

Download or read book Pin Up Art of Bill Wenzel written by Bill Wenzel and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.9px Arial; color: #424242} No other pin-up cartoon artist over a 30-year period was as prolific or as omnipresent as Bill Wenzel. Virtually every humor and men's magazine, ranging from Judge in the mid-'40s to Sex to Sexy in the '60s and '70s, boasted two, if not a dozen, of Wenzel's pin-up cartoons. Quick with pen and ink, Wenzel was equally adept with the brush, and nowhere was this more evident than in his work for the Humorama line of girlie digests.

Download or read book The Pin Up Art of Humorama written by various and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2011-07-31 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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").

Download or read book The Pin Up Girls of Yank the Army Weekly written by Amy Pilkington and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yank, the Army Weekly was a military publication sold to deployed soldiers during World War II. To boost soldiers' morale, each issue contained a pin-up girl. These lovely ladies were some of the most famous actresses, models, and dancers of their time. This book features the pin-up girls in the 1944 issues of Yank. Inside you'll find photos of Lauren Bacall, Elyse Knox, Ann Savage, Ingrid Bergman, K.T. Stevens, Chili Williams, Angela Greene, Peggy Corday, Jeanne Craine, Rita Hayworth, and many more. Bios are included for each girl, one of which was an Olympic figure skater.

Download or read book Glamor Girls of Don Flowers written by Don Flowers and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the life of Don Flowers was cut short in 1968 by the ill effects of emphysema, he left behind a career in newspaper cartooning that spanned more than four decades as well as one of the most fluid lines to grace the comics page. His cartoons evoked the art of Russell Patterson and Hank Ketcham, and nowhere was this more evident than in his quintessential single-panel pin-up cartoon, the aptly named Glamor Girls: Whether blondes or brunettes, showgirls or housewives, Flowers rendered his comely protagonists with equal aplomb. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.9px Arial; color: #424242}

Download or read book Dancing Man written by Bob Avian and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tony and Olivier Award–winning Bob Avian’s dazzling life story, Dancing Man: A Broadway Choreographer’s Journey, is a memoir in three acts. Act I reveals the origins of one of Broadway’s legendary choreographers who appeared onstage with stars like Barbra Streisand and Mary Martin all before he was thirty. Act II includes teaching Katharine Hepburn how to sing and dance in Coco and working with Stephen Sondheim and Michael Bennett while helping to choreograph the original productions of Company and Follies. During this time, Avian won a Tony Award as the cochoreographer of A Chorus Line and produced the spectacular Tony Award–winning Dreamgirls. For a triumphant third act, Avian choreographed Julie Andrews’s return to the New York stage, devised all of the musical staging for Miss Saigon and Sunset Boulevard, and directed A Chorus Line on Broadway. He worked with the biggest names on Broadway, including Andrew Lloyd Webber, Carol Burnett, Jennifer Holliday, Patti LuPone, Elaine Stritch, and Glenn Close. Candid, witty, sometimes shocking, and always entertaining, here at last is the ultimate up-close and personal insider’s view from a front row seat at the creation of the biggest, brightest, and best Broadway musicals of the past fifty years.

Download or read book The Glamour Girls of Bill Ward written by Bill Ward and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: by Bill Ward Renowned pin-up artist Bill Ward gets the full coffee table treatment in this lavish, oversized, full-color paperback edition of the acclaimed 2003 hardcover that features Ward's most polished, fully-realized portraits of the 1950s. This volume features the best of Ward's Humorama work, including a selection of Ward's infamous telephone girls.

Download or read book Top Hats and Flappers written by Russell Patterson and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most influential artists of his generation, Patterson's impact spanned decades. The list of Patterson's "alumni" ranged from virtually every published pin-up cartoonist to notables like Walt Disney and Hugh Hefner, who noted it was Patterson, not John Held, Jr. or F. Scott Fitzgerald, who best defined the strut and fret of American life between the two World Wars. Along with an introductory essay by illustration art historian Armando Mendez, this volume showcases Patterson at his pinnacle, featuring many his most important and dynamic magazine covers and illustrations. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial}

Download or read book Jessica Cole Model Spy Code Red Lipstick written by Sarah Sky and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Models, spies and lipstick gadgets... When Jessica's father, a former spy, vanishes mysteriously, Jessica takes matters into her own hands. She's not just a daddy's girl who's good at striking a pose; she's a trained spook who knows how to take on MI6 and beat them at their own game.

Download or read book Jack Cole and Plastic Man written by Art Spiegelman and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For years Jack Cole labored dutifully as a cartoonist, comic book illustrator, and Playboy's premier artist. He was, on the outside, a mild-mannered and easygoing guy. One look at his most famous creation--the manic, surreal Plastic Man--and there is no question that much more lurked in the mind of this tragic artist than anyone suspected. Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and cartoonist Art Spiegelman and renowned graphic designer Chip Kidd pay homage to Plastic Man and his creator, Jack Cole."--Jacket.

Download or read book Cheesecake Boys an Adult Coloring Book written by Paul Richmond and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new kind of adult coloring book, filled with gleefully gratuitous guys for you to "pin up" on your fridge.

Download or read book Plastic Man 2018 written by Gail Simone and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Eel OÕBrian: a petty thug, thief and con artist who runs a strip club. Hey, heÕs also dead, at least according to the gang that tossed him out like last weekÕs garbage. Literally. DonÕt worry, thoughÑhe bounced back from all that, and now heÕs trying to make a new life for himself, but the effort is stretching him pretty thin. How can he get revenge on his old boss, keep a street kid out of trouble, make a dancer fall in love with him and stop a mysterious society from taking over the world? Eel has no idea! Find out in this title collecting the six-issue miniseries.

Download or read book Reefer Madness written by Various and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Degradation! Crime! Madness! Hysteria surrounded marijuana as a perceived gateway drug from the 1930's to the 1950's and beyond. Adventure Comics, by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, and works by Frank Frazetta, Jerry Robinson, Jack Kirby, and many more, reveal the social reaction to this era of "Reefer Madness". Like the anti-drug propaganda film, these stories range from comically misinformed to soberly concerned about the influence of Mary Jane on the youth of America. Eisner and Harvey Award winner Craig Yoe brings us his newest collection of wacky, wild, and culturally relevant comics. See how marijuana was perceived in the days of ignorance before it was legalized by the visionary people of Oregon, Washington, and Colorado! See marijuana demonized as a "Satan's cigarettes" in 1950's comics!

Download or read book Jack and Jill written by Louisa May Alcott and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Little Women: An American classic of young best friends in a rustic New England town. In post–Civil War New England, thirteen-year-old Jack Minot and Janey Pecq are inseparable best friends who live next door to each other in the town of Harmony Village. The pair does everything together—so much so that Janey is nicknamed “Jill” to fit the old children’s rhyme. One winter day, the friends share a sled down a treacherous hill and both end up injured and bedridden. Unable to go out and have fun, Jack, Jill, and their circle of friends begin to learn about more than the fun and games of their youth and discover what it means to grow up—exploring their town, their hearts, and the big, wide world beyond for the first time. This charming, wistful coming-of-age tale, written twelve years after Louisa May Alcott’s classic Little Women, examines the strange, tempestuous changes of adolescence with homespun heart and worldly wisdom.

Download or read book Front Burner written by Kirk Lippold and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The former Commander of the USS Cole tells the full story of the deadly terrorist attack on his ship and its frustrating, fateful aftermath