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Christos Achilleos |
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(b. 1947): Cypran painter of Science-Fiction
and Fantasy work living in Britain, famous for his rendition of Taarna
(who he designed), which graced Heavy Metal's movie poster in 1980.
He's done countless book covers, and a few collections, and is now being
featured monthly in Marquis magazine. |
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Centurians / Spartacus |
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Publisher of Transgender and Bondage magazines
and catalogues, as well as maker / distributor of restraints, costumes,
videos, transformation supplies and such. They've carried work by Robert
Bishop, Lou Kagan, Aldo, Bruce Baker and others. |
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Guido Crepax |
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(b. 1933): Milanese architect and artist
who started one of the first-ever erotic comic series, "Valentina."
He has also adapted many pieces of erotic literature to comic form,
including a number of works by De Sade, "The Story of O,"
and "Emmanuelle." |
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Frank Frazetta |
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One of the best-known fantasy artists, who
works mostly in oils. He's done countless book covers and several comics. |
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Hans Rudolf Giger |
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(b. 1940): Swiss painter who began with dark,
detailed, mechanical works in "underground" publications,
and attracted wide attention beginning in the '70s. He designed the
visuals for the movie Alien and several others, plus many album
covers. His work is often morbid, monstrous, filled with grotesque biomechanoids
and occult imagery -- a merger of sadomasochism, science-fiction and
Lovecraftian lore. |
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Harmony Magazines |
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Bondage Photo publisher which Robert Harmon
began in 1976 and carried illustrations in its Bondage Life magazine
and occasionally in others. Carried work by Brian Tarsis, SMS, Robert
Bishop and many more. Harmony Concepts is adamant about promoting safe,
consensual SM, and refusing to stray from it in the work they produce
-- a policy which is admirable, but also sometimes restrictive in a
medium which lends itself more to wild fantasy. |
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HOM (House of Milan) |
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Also known as Lyndon Distributors / London
Enterprises, started in the 1970s. Directed by photographer Barbara
Behr in the '80s and well known for the work of Robert Bishop which
graced the covers of their novels and were collected by them for publication.
They published work by Brian Tarsis, SMS, Lou Kagan (who also did a
photo series for them) and authors Frank Campbell, John Savage and Geoffrey
Merrick. |
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House of Gord (HGP) |
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BDSM publisher which explores wild fantasy,
primarily male-Dominant, female-submissive. Their works tend to be highly
imaginative and insidious, with an emphasis on tight restriction. Employed
artists such as Benson and Stargraves. |
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Irving Klaw |
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A New York City cheesecake photographer and
publisher who began his business (Movie Star News) in 1947. In 1955,
the controversy surrounding his fetish works spurred on by Estes Kefauver
caused him to shut down this part of his business (and in the process,
he destroyed his entire collection of fetish works to avoid prosecution),
but the classic works which have survived in personal collections have
endured for fans everywhere. He lent notoriety to model Bettie Page
and artists Eneg, Stanton, Jim, Ruiz, John Willie and others. |
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Eric Kroll |
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(b. 23Oct1946) Fetish photographer and editor
with an incredible diversity of subject matter. Formerly a New Yorker,
he now resides in San Francisco. He has an astounding amount of work,
filmed with a keen eye and brilliant mind. He has also published some
collections ("Fetish Girls" and "Beauty Parade"),
and composed introductions for influential works such as the compiled
2-volume "Bizarre" collection and some Taschen folios. Kroll
is a man with a profound love for the diversity of fetish, and has done
much to encourage newcomers to the field, as well as to inspire them
with his camera work. |
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Milo Manara |
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Ink and watercolor comics artist and writer
whose work often exudes an intense eroticism along with a keen social
insight. He has produced several graphic novels, some which feature
the writing of Hugo Pratt and Frederico Fellini. |
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Movie Star News |
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NYC photo and comic strip publishing house
founded in 1947 by Irving Klaw, which employed a number of artists,
including Eneg, Eric Stanton, Jim, Ruiz and John Willie (see individual
entries). Movie Star News still functions, but has only produced a few
recovered fetish works (Bettie Page films) since 1955. See Klaw. |
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Fakir Musafar |
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(b. 1930 - d. __): Publisher of Body Play
magazine and unofficial founder of the "Modern Primitives"
(a term he coined) body modification movement. Fascinated with Native
American, Hindu and Sufi shamanist practices, and was crucial in popularizing
piercing, tight-lacing (extreme corsetry) and tattooing, as well as
developing responsible methods of branding and scarification. |
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Patrick Nagel |
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(b. 1945 - d. Feb. 1984): Dayton Ohio magazine
illustrator and poster artist best known for his work in Playboy. He
combined Japanese woodblock styles with 1920s art-deco for a simple,
fashion-oriented style. |
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John Norman |
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John Frederick Lange, Jr., Ph.D. (b. 3 June
1931). Author of several novels in the "Gor" series, based
upon a science-fiction world where men are barbarian sophisticates and
women are most often natural-born pleasure slaves. His novels first
appeared in the early 1970s, when there was little outlet for fetish
fantasy, and have created a popular mythos for many. His covers have
been illustrated by Boris Vallejo and Chris Achilleos, among others. |
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Olivia (deBerardinis) |
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Well-known pin-up painter with Robert Bane
Galleries who specializes in cheesecake art. Uses airbrush, acrylic,
gouache and oils, and is best known for her zebra girl, which first
captured the public imagination on the cover of Heavy Metal Magazine. |
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Bettie Page |
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Famed pin-up model of the '40s and '50s who
did a significant amount of fetish-based work. She helped popularize
playful tease, high heels, girdles and stockings, appearing as both
a whip-wielding mistress and a helpless bondagette. Her allure was added
to by her "disappearance", but she has recently reclaimed her name,
while still enjoying her life out of the public eye. |
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George Petty |
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Cheesecake artist and predecessor of Alberto
Vargas. First published in Esquire Magazine, he set the standard for
pin-up art, with his playful ladies. |
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Hajime Sorayama |
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(b. 1947) Japanese airbrush artist who became
a freelance artist in 1972 and became world-renowned after the first
publication of his "Sexy Robot" works in 1983. His work is
known and recognized around the globe, and there have been several collections
of his work |
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Dave Stevens |
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(b. 29July1955) California-based comic artist
who began with Tarzan comics in 1975. Creator of "The Rocketeer."
and well-known for his Bettie Page work. |
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Boris Vallejo |
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Peruvian-born painter who came to America
in 1964 who established himself as a fantasy painter and cover artist.
His covers from the Gor series are well known, and his colorful
textures, muscular heros, shapely women and fearsome creatures distinguish
him as one of the most popular modern painters. He works closely with
his wife / protege Julie Bell |
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Alberto Vargas |
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(b. 9Feb1896 - d. Dec82): Peruvian painter
whose work in Esquire Magazine during the '20s and '30s helped shape
Western culture's beauty esthetic -- his Varga Girls calender became
a national institution, and were hailed as morale boosters during WWII.
When his partnership with Esquire collapsed in 1947, a series of lawsuits
and countersuits left him broke and unable to use his trademark name
"Varga," until he landed work with Playboy through the '60s
and '70s. |
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Robert Williams |
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(b. 1943) Los Angeles-based painter and underground
comics artist focusing on the surreal and bizarre. Not to be confused
with an impressionist painter of the same name. |
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Julius Zimmerman |
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Illustrator in the tradition of Bill Ward. |
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