Saturday, June 7, 2008

Guillermo Divito

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http://instalarte.zoomblog.com

http://lambiek.net


(1914 - 1969, Argentina)

He was born at Buenos Aires on July 16, 1914. Son of a doctor notable, he rejected the paternal career to follow your vocation. Guillermo Divito started his career in 1931 in Pages de Columba. Some time later he collaborated with Dante Quinterno, poducing such comic strips as 'El Enemigo del Hombre' and 'Oscar Dientes de Leche', and soon he would pass to draw to for Patoruzú (famous Argentinean magazine) where it creates your first characters.

Soon after in 1944, after a divergence with the director of Patoruzú decides to create a new project. This way, it founds Rico Tipo a magazine of weekly publication that would become fundamental piece of the Argentinean graphic humor.

Rico Tipo had a circulation of 350000 weekly copies and it was in opposition with the followers' of Patoruzú line, magazine that could have imposed a family humor.

However, they would be the girls that Divito drew for the covers of Rico Tipo that he would win fame as designer. Incorporating the imaginary of an entire time, the girls of wide hips, wasp waist, prominent bust and imposing legs, they were the own modern sensuality.

In the personal life, Divito was a refined bachelor that mixed the playboy and the bohemian. Guillermo Divito was killed in a car crash in 1969






















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Thursday, June 5, 2008

Eric Stanton

Text extracted of the website http://intellectadesign.blogspot.com and http://www.stantongallery.com/



Eric Stanton (September 30, 1926–March 17, 1999; born Ernest Stanzoni) was an American bondage and fetish illustrator, cartoonist, and comic-book artist. Although the majority of his work depicted female dominance scenarios, he also produced work showing the inverse. Stanton also incorporated bisexual, homosexual, and transgender imagery into some of his later work. Early life and career Stanton began his career in 1947 at Irving Klaw's Movie Star News company in New York City, gaining employment by boasting he could draw better than any of the artists then working for Klaw. He afterward attended the Cartoonists and Illustrators School, under Batman inker Jerry Robinson and others. One classmate was future Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko. Stanton shared a Manhattan studio at 43rd Street and Eighth Avenue with Ditko from 1958 to 1966 or 1968 (accounts differ). Some of Stanton's work during this period shows heavy Ditko influence (see below), although Ditko has denied contributing to Stanton's art. (Eric Stanton drew his pictures in India Ink, and they were then hand-colored by Ditko. In addition to his cover designs for erotic magazines and novels.).

DITKO & STANTON



Stanton, in a 1988 interview with comics historian Greg Theakston, recalled that though his contribution to Spider-Man was "almost nil", he and Ditko had "worked on storyboards together [and] I added a few ideas. But the whole thing was created by Steve on his own. ... I think I added the business about the webs coming out of his hands". Later careerAfter Klaw died in 1966, Stanton supported himself via self-publishing and distributing his work to a quasi-underground network of subscribers and patrons. His mimeographed/photocopied "Stantoons" series continued to his death in 1999 and featured many of his most well-known post-Klaw concepts such as Blunder Broad and the Princkazons. Blunder Broad Stanton created Blunder Broad in the 1970s with writer Turk Winter, for use in a great number of pornographic BDSM stories, published over the years in black and white. An obvious parody of Wonder Woman, Blunder Broad is an inept superheroine who continually fails in her missions and is invariably raped and tortured by her enemies, who include a lesbian supervillainess variably called Leopard Lady, Pussycat Galore, or Cheetah, and her male sidekick Count Dastardly. Blunder Broad can be deprived of her superstrength when subjected to cunnilingus. LegacyIn addition to books about his work, Stanton's art was reprinted in the 1990s in Fantagraphics Books' Eros Comix comic book Tops and Bottoms, issues subtitled "Bound Beauty" (#1), "Lady in Charge" (#2), "Broken Engagement" (#3), "Broken Engagement 2" (#4), as well as in that publisher's Bizarre Comix #3 and Confidential TV. Taschen published several collections.