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Pin-Up Art of Bill Ward Reviews
October 25th, 2011 by Aldouspi

Pin-Up Art of Bill Ward Reviews

Pin-Up Art of Bill Ward

A collection of 1950s & 1960s pin-up art spotlighting the inimitable creator of Torchy. The Pin-Up Art of Bill Ward continues Fantagraphics’ dedication to showcasing the best of the classic pin-up artists. Culling through thousands of images, editor Alex Chun has selected the best of Ward’s Conte crayon pin-ups, including many of his infamous telephone girls, many of which have not seen print in almost half a century.

When Ward passed away in 1998, he left behind a body of work that spanned six decades and by all accounts, more than 10,000 pin-up cartoon illustrations. Though he is best known for creating comics’ Golden Age blonde bombshell Torchy in the 1940s, Ward’s strongest work was produced in the late 1950s and early 1960s for the Humorama line of digest magazines.

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  • Robin Benson writes:
    October 25th, 201110:39 pmat
    5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
    5.0 out of 5 stars
    Dangerous curves ahead, March 1, 2007
    By 
    Robin Benson –
    (REAL NAME)
      

    This review is from: Pin-Up Art of Bill Ward (Paperback)

    Now that Alex Chun’s first book on Bill Ward is sold out Fantagraphics have wisely decided there is a market for a cheaper edition. This is not a straight reprint of the original, ‘The Glamour Girls of Bill Ward’ (ISBN 1560975318) which was a large size portfolio edition, beautifully printed. This current title is much smaller with an edited intro from the original but what looks like a different selection of art. Still good value if you like Bill’s art.

    Considering that he can only really be considered on the fringes of quality girly art it is amazing that three books of his output have been published in the last three years. Ward claims to have drawn thousands of pin-ups over the years so I expect there will be more titles in the future.

    The two from Fantagraphics are good but Eric Kroll’s The Wonderful World of Bill Ward, King of the Glamour Girls (Various)with its chunky size, comprehensive illustrated biography and hundreds of pin-ups must really be the last word on Ward.

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  • Tim Janson writes:
    October 25th, 201111:06 pmat
    3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
    5.0 out of 5 stars
    STILL HOT AND HUMOROUS AFTER FIFTY YEARS, April 15, 2007
    By 
    Tim Janson (Michigan) –
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    This review is from: Pin-Up Art of Bill Ward (Paperback)

    If you’re a baby-boomer or older, chances are you’ve seen Bill Ward’s art, even if you didn’t necessarily know the name. Ward was one of the premiere and pioneering artists of what came to be known as Good Girl Art in the 40’s and 50’s. Good Girl Art refers to those comics depicting attractive women in various stages of undress or, quite often, in some form of bondage. These covers were quite popular in both pulp magazines and comic books of the era and are highly prized among collectors today.

    Ward’s most famous creation was “Torchy” Todd, the sexy blonde bombshell who made her first appearance in the mid-1940’s. Torchy’s run in comics was cut short by the crusade against sex and violence in comics in the 1950’s. Leaving comics, Ward moved on to work for editor Abe Goodman’s Humorama line of magazines that included titles such as Gee-Whiz, Romp, Snappy, Laugh Riot, and more. There he began his prolific run of sexy one-page cartoons featuring his stunning Good Girl Art.

    The Pin-up Art of Bill Ward from Fantagraphics packs 260 pages of these classic one panel pin-up cartoons into the book. The Ward female of these cartoons is classic 1950’s pin-up: large breasts, thin waist, wide hips, and a round bottom. The classic hourglass figure complete with the pouty lips and eyes that can make any man melt. These women are bawdy and busty and make no apologies for utilizing their physical assets. Fetishists will love Ward’s hilarious series of spanking cartoons, which are often girl-on-girl. In one, an angry boss with a black eye is spanking his secretary and telling her, “This will teach you to let my wife catch you sitting on my lap!” In another, a bank President is showing his gorgeous blonde customer what the penalty is at his bank for overdrawing her account.

    Among the other cartoons in the book is Ward’s series of telephone girl gags. These generally feature one of his gorgeous models lying on a bed or sofa in a negligee or other type of lingerie, talking on the phone. There’s also a fair share of Ward’s burlesque stripper cartoons. In one, two men are ogling a dancer clad only in panties and pasties. One exclaims, “This is one thing television will never replace!”

    Wardss pin-ups are truly the 50’sand 60’s American male view of the perfect female. These classic cartoons and drawings have lost none of their humor even after some fifty years.

    Reviewed by Tim Janson

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  • Joseph A. Admire writes:
    October 25th, 201111:37 pmat
    2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
    5.0 out of 5 stars
    Same editor, same classic girlie art, but different selection, August 12, 2007
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    Joseph A. Admire (Manassas, VA USA) –
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    This review is from: Pin-Up Art of Bill Ward (Paperback)

    For those who can’t get ahold of the hardcover, now-sold-out _The Glamour Girls of Bill Ward_ (also edited by Alex Chun) or who can’t afford the huge _The Wonderful World of Bill Ward_ (published by Taschen), this is a cheap, readily available alternative with enough of Ward’s classic glamour girls to satisfy all but the most hard-core, completist fan of Ward’s work. The book is published in trade-paperback format, so the illustration reproductions are not as big as in the other two books, but the quality is quite satisfactory.

    As he did in _Glamour Girls_, Chun has chosen to focus on the art that Ward is most famous for, and the art that Ward himself loved the best; the voluptuous, elegantly dressed, Ekbergesque (as in Anita Ekberg, one of the inspirational models for Ward’s beauties) lovelies that populated the pages of so many men’s magazines in the 1950’s and 1960’s – and not the raunchier work that he did in his later years, much of which he did strictly for the fee. These classic cartoons, by contrast, were done as much for love as for money, and it shows; there’s an elegant lushness in them that doesn’t show up in his later X-rated work. The selection includes a healthy number of Ward’s (in)famous “telephone girls”. While some of the cartoons and drawings chosen for this book are the same as in _Glamour Girls_, many of them are new to book publication; thus, if you really love Ward’s girls, you’ll want to get all three of the books that are currently in print. Definitely a “must have” for fans of pinup art.

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