by Tim Pilcher
Fantagraphics, 2003
Chicken Fat
Will Elder
Fantagraphics, 2006
Encyclopédie de la Bande
Desinéee Érotique
Henri Filippini
La Musardine, 1999
Sex in Comics: A History of the Eight Pagers (4 volumes)
D. H. Gilmore
Greenleaf Classics, 1971.
The History of Girly Magazines: 1900-1969
Dian Hanson
Taschen, 2006
An Orgy of Playboy’s Eldon Dedini
Edited by Hugh Hefner, Michelle Urry, and Gary Groth
Fantagraphics Books, 2006
Playboy: 50 Years of Cartoons
Edited by Hugh Hefner, Michelle Urry, and Jennifer Thiele
Chronicle Books, 2004
Sex in the Comics
Maurice Horn
Random House Value Publishing, 1988
Erotic Postcards
Barbara Jones and William Ouellette
Macdonald and Jane’s, 1977
Need More Love: A Graphic Memoir
Aline Kominsky-Crumb
MQ Publications Ltd, 2007
The Art of Eric Stanton:
For the Man Who Knows His Place
Eric Kroll
Taschen, 1997
Bizarre: The Complete Reprint of John
Willie’s Bizarre Vols. 1-13
Edited by Eric Kroll
Taschen, 1995
Bizarre: The Complete Reprint of John
Willie’s Bizarre Vols. 14-26
Edited by Eric Kroll
Taschen, 1995
The Wonderful World of Bill Ward,
King of the Glamour Girls
Eric Kroll, Martin Holz, Clara Drechsler, and Harald Hellmann
Taschen, 2006
Playboy’s Little Annie Fanny: Volume 1 (1962-1970)
Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder
Dark Horse Comics, Inc. 2000
Playboy’s Little Annie Fanny: Volume 2 (1970-1988)
Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder
Dark Horse Comics, Inc. 2001
Ars Erotica
Edward Lucie-Smith
Stoddart, 1997
The Penguin Book of Comics
George Perry and Alan Aldridge
Penguin Books, 1967
Jane at war: The original and unexpurgated adventures of the British secret weapon of World War
Two, Jane of the Daily Mirror
Norman Pett
Wolfe, 1976
The Essential Guide to World Comics
Tim Pilcher and Brad Brooks
Collins & Brown, 2005
Famous Sex Comics
John J Reynolds
Socio Library, 1976
Comics, Comix & Graphic Novels:
A History of Comic Art
Roger Sabin
Phaidon, 1996
Sadomasochism in comics: A history of sex and violence in comic books
Hans Siden
Greenleaf Classics, 1972
Comix: The Underground Revolution
Dez Skinn
Collins & Brown, 2004
Unpublished
Doug Sneyd
Sneyd Syndicate Inc., 2007
Scribblings 1, 2 and 3
Dean Yeagle
Caged Beagle Productions, 2003 & 2006
One Mandy Morning
Dean Yeagle
Caged Beagle Productions, 2005
Mélange
Dean Yeagle
Akileos, Paris, 2007
Mandy’s Shorts
Dean Yeagle
BrandStudio Press, 2007
The Adventures of Sweet Gwendoline
John Willie
Belier Press, 1999
Wilson’s Grimm
S. Clay Wilson and Wilhelm and Jakob Grimm
Cottage Classics, 1999
Saucy Seaside Postcards
Alan Wykes
Dolphin Publications, 1977
PUBLISHERS’ WEBSITES
Belier Press
www.belierpress.com
The Comics Journal
www.tcj.com
Eros Comix
www.eroscomix.com
Erotic Review Books
www.eroticprints.org
Fantagraphics Books
www.fantagraphics.com
Hustler magazine
www.hustler.com
NBM Publishing Inc.
www.nbmpub.com
Penthouse magazine
www.penthouse.com
Playboy magazine
www.playboy.com
Taschen Books
www.taschen.com
ARTIST WEBSITES
Roberto Baldazzini
www.baldazzini.it
Robert Crumb & Aline Kominsky Crumb
www.rcrumb.com
Will Elder
www.willelder.net
Denis Kitchen Publishing
www.deniskitchen.com
Magnus
www.magnusonline.it
Michael Manning
www.thespidergarden.net
Trina Robbins
www.trinarobbins.com
Franco Saudelli
www.francosaudelli.com
Doug Sneyd
www.dougsneyd.com
Eric Stanton
www.stantongallery.com
Erich Von Götha
www.erichvongotha.com
Bill Ward
www.womenofward.net
Dean Yeagle
www.cagedbeagle.com
www.gallery.bellefree.com/dabeagle
www.deanyeagle.com
GENERAL WEBSITES
British Cartoon Archive’s CartoonHub
www.library.kent.ac.uk/cartoons
Comic Book Bondage Cover of the Day
www.bcotd.com/index.html
Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
www.cbldf.org
ComicsResearch.org
www.comicsresearch.org
Lambiek
www.lambiek.net
Michigan State University’s Comic
Art Library
www.lib.msu.edu/comics
New York Public Library’s Comic Books
Research Guide
www.nypl.org/research/chss/grd/resguides/comic
Ohio State University’s Cartoon
Research Library
www.cartoons.osu.edu/index.php
Sex in Art
www.sexinart.net/category/comics
Tijuana Bible Resources
www.tijuana-bible.com
www.tijuanabible.org
www.tijuanabibles.org
Gary VandenBergh
www.completemontage.com
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
There are so many amazing people to thank for this book that it’s difficult to know where to start, so I’ll start at the beginning with Brad and Liz Brooks who started this whole thing by buying me L’Enfer Des Bulles all those years ago. So it’s all your fault!
A big shout out to Garry L for his excellent painting, loan of the Bill Ward originals, and various scans of rare and essential comics. I bow to your wondrous erotic knowledge, sir! My undying gratitude to Aline Kominsky Crumb for her insightful and funny foreword—you really were the icing on the cake and I’m glad we managed to get you on board in the end! And a big thanks to Lora Fountain for getting Aline and Robert in the book in the first place.
This book wouldn’t have been possible without the assistance of Gene Kannenberg, Jr., whose tireless searches for smut no doubt placed him in many a compromising situation. Gene’s picture research, scanning, fact checking, and knowledge lifted the book from a hackwork to something more.
Merci beaucoup to Martine Deprez for all the European picture research, above and beyond the call of duty. Thanks to Bill Osgerby, whose extensive collection of classic men’s magazines many of these images came from. To Will Elder and Gary VandenBergh for Mr Elder’s wonderful work and factual cor
rections. To Denis Kitchen, for sage-like advice and for being a gent when a complete stranger rings him out of the blue! John McInnerny at Allsorts Media, Carol Pinkus at Marvel, Jennifer Thiele at Playboy, Donna Hahner at Hustler, Eric Reynolds at Fantagraphics, Dian Hanson and Klaus Kramp at Taschen, Olivia de Berardinis, Doug Sneyd, Dean Yeagle, Jim Silke, Dave Taylor, Fredric Mullally, Liz Embleton, Erich Von Götha, Michael Manning, and all the other countless artists, writers, creators, editors, and publishers who took time out to talk to me, offer encouragement, and give permission to reprint your wonderful work—you guys made this book.
To J.B. Rund at Belier Press, thank you for taking the time to talk with me in New York and showing me all those wondrous John Willie original pages, it’s an experience I’ll never forget. Garth Ennis for the NYC hospitality and for all the free smut! This book would have been far more expensive without you!
Thank you to Cheeky Joe Melchior for the loan of his Dan DeCarlo originals and for being a true mate. Much gratitude to Alex Chun for the support and for writing such excellent books on many of the great artists featured in this book. Rush out and buy all of his books now!
A special thanks to Fiona Jerome and Kirk Taylor for your help and research, even though we didn’t use any of it in the end, sorry! Cheers also to Steve Holland for additional research. Thanks also to Josh Palmano for allowing his excellent comic shop Gosh! to be an impromtu photographic studio! Visit his shop in London, UK if you get the chance.
A big thanks to Chris, Julie, Emily, and Tom for putting up with my constant arguments and prima donna ways on how the book should look and to Eric Himmel and Charlie Kochman at Abrams for their unwavering support and friendship. Eric, your passion for the project was greatly appreciated, as was all your insightful input.
And fnally to Sue for all the support, love, and acceptance while doing this book, which I know you thoroughly disapprove of! To Megan and Oskar, I don’t want to catch you reading this sentence until you are at least 18! And to Mum and Dad—I’m so, so sorry!
Gene Kannenberg, Jr. would like to thank Brian J. Hunt (www.littledirtycomics.com/), Michael Rhode, The Joey Zone, and Robin Barron.
“Remember, fellas, these will be my first times.” A Bill Ward cartoon from his later, more explicit period, from 1972’s Sex to Sexty #41.