The Pin-Up Art of Bill Ward

Paperback, 256 pages

English language

Published Feb. 26, 2007 by Fantagraphics.

ISBN:
978-1-56097-787-2
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OCLC Number:
72150541

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Bill Ward is a famous pin-up artist who drew the kinds of comics you might find in Playboy or its forgotten men’s magazine predecessors. The most interesting thing I learned from this collection is that he drew with a conté crayon and his originals were huge as a result.

He definitely had a knack for drawing glossy black leggings on absurdly exaggerated statuesque women. Less successful were the gag captions, which I only rarely found funny, probably because they’re from a different era but also because the jokes were clearly not the point.

This volume also makes it clear that Ward had a few go-to poses and settings, and most of his comics were variations on a handful of themes. His work probably stands up slightly better in an uncollected form, which essentially means that this collection only diminishes it.

Subjects

  • Comic book & cartoon art
  • Erotic art
  • History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -
  • Individual artists
  • Drawing By Individual Artists
  • Popular Culture
  • Art
  • Graphic Novels
  • Graphic Novels - Erotica
  • Comics & Graphic Novels / Graphic Novels / Erotica
  • Individual Artist
  • Popular Culture - General