The Art of Eric Stanton: For the Man Who Knows His Place

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I always worked with water and tempera. I never liked oils. I can't stand the thought of taking more than an hour or two on a piece. The cover illustrations were in no way connected directly to the text of the novels. Sometimes Malcolm would describe a specific scene but the titles - Strange Hungers, Pleasure Bound, Something Extra - never had anything to do with the story. From 1958 to 1968, [16] Stanton shared a Manhattan studio at 43rd Street and Eighth Avenue with Ditko. For many years, the two collaborated on fetish comics. [17] [18] Ditko biographer Blake Bell, without citing sources, said, "At one time in history, Ditko denied ever touching Stanton's work, even though Stanton himself said they would each dabble in each other's art; mainly spot-inking", [17] and the introduction to one book of Stanton's work says, "Eric Stanton drew his pictures in India ink, and they were then hand-coloured by Ditko". [19] In a 1988 interview with Greg Theakston, Stanton recalled that although his contribution to Spider-Man was "almost nil", he and Ditko had "worked on storyboards together and I added a few ideas.... I think I added the business about the webs coming out of his hands". [20] According to the fetish art historian and Stanton biographer Richard Pérez Seves, Stanton may have purposely underplayed his role and contribution to Spider-Man to maintain his friendship with Ditko. [21] Even more startling, evidence exists that Stanton also made uncredited contributions to Dr. Strange. [22] Later career [ edit ] Cover illustration by Eric Stanton for "Running Wild" by Myron Kosloff (a pseudonym of Paul Little) THE SAME YEAR that he and Grace separated, Stanton joined Ditko in a studio at 276 W. 43rd Street and revived the camaraderie of their C&IS days. In ‘Men Tamed to Submission by Tame-azons’, Nutrix 1960, Portia and Potentia are hired to subdue and vanquish Dan Marlo, a well-known star of television, who specializes in he-man roles. They spirit the drunken actor away from a party with the help of chloroform. While he is unconscious, the girls lace him up in a corset than gag and bind him. Fear and humiliation showed on his strained face as Potentia began slamming him around. His pride was hurt and he was unwilling to admit that a woman could overpower him.

And Ditko was completely accepting of Stanton: ‘He thought my stuff was funny. We’d laugh a lot,’ Stanton said, as he fondly remembered years later. ‘Every experience that I had with Steve was terrific, as far as I was concerned.’” Booker, M. Keith, ed. (2010). "Underground and Adult Comics". Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels. Greenwood. p. 648. ISBN 9780313357473. This speech makes me smile each time I read it. Can you imagine anyone actually taking like this? How about her statement that feminine attire denotes low stature? Doesn’t that seem inconsistent with ‘his inferior body’? Wouldn’t looking like a woman cause him to gain stature in the eyes of the ‘Tame-azons’? Charles Guyette: Godfather of American Fetish Art [*Expanded Photo Edition*] by Richard Pérez Seves. New York: FetHistory, 2018. ISBN 978-1973773771For De Berardinis, art goes beyond what is reflected on the paper or in print. Her creations, especially the stuff of a sexual nature, takes on a life of its own, which is fitting because it is where life begins. This affirmation of humanity and how it has connected with others over her long career is what she’s most proud of. In helplessness and rage, Bill turned on Tom and Grace. "I don’t care what I did to you two. You can’t make me dress up and look like a girl this way. I can’t stand it. It’s too awful."

Beginning in the mid-1970s, Bélier Press, a New York publisher of vintage fetish art, reprinted many of Stanton's comic serials in its 24-volume Bizarre Comix series. [27] Titles, mainly from the 1950s, include: Dianna's Ordeal, Perils of Dianna, Priscilla: Queen of Escapes, Poor Pamela, Bound in Leather, Duchess of the Bastille, Bizarre Museum, Pleasure Bound, Rita's School of Discipline, Mrs. Tyrant's Finishing School, Fifi Chastises Her Maids, A Hazardous Journey, Helga's Search for Slaves, Madame Discipline, and Girls' Figure Training Academy. [3] Wrote Amber: “My father contributed to the costume, the idea of the web shooting out of Spider-Man's wrist, and the movement which he made with his hands to release the web. ... I still remember my father's beautiful, strong, broad hands as he showed me the movement that makes Spider-Man's web release from his wrist. It was just like my dad to come up with something like that. If you knew my father it would make sense that he had a hand in Spider-Man.” They gave him a doll and sent him out in the yard to play. After a few hours of that, including Bill finding to his horror that his diaper was to be functional, they decided to change his costume. When she asked him what was so unbelievable, he confessed that he’d helped another artist, naming Steve Ditko, create the character. And he told her what he’d contributed. The instructions that came with the girl’s fee from their anonymous employer were very explicit. Since Dan Marlo was always bragging about his masculinity and the fact that he was usually selected for he-man roles, the Tame-azons were to humiliate and degrade him by dressing him in feminine clothes and forcing him to act as a girl.

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On leaving high school in 1944, Stanton enlisted in the US Navy and produced an information strip about aircraft recognition for a service newspaper. He would also entertain his fellow sailors by drawing glamorous girls on their handkerchieves. Her mother was angry that Stanton never claimed recognition or royalties because of his role in creating the character. When Amber asked her father about it, “his response,” she said, “made it clear that it was something he would never even consider because the ideas were freely given. EXOTIQUE is thoughtfully prepared and edited for those whose outlook on life is sound and hopeful: for those who find enjoyment in the bizarre and the unusual both in action and in attire. Why must we all be conformists… follow the crowd? Are we not able to think for ourselves, act as we feel and dress as we desire? This is an unbeatable combination and it IS within our reach. Amber said her father always spoke highly of Ditko’s art, particularly his inking ability. “When they collaborated,” she said, “my father did the pencil work, and Steve would ink over it.”

This time they happen to have a corset and maid’s uniform. I understand that this is a work of fiction, but at least try to make it believable. The damn corset even has a built in gaff with fake fur to simulate public hair. Antes del districto de Tainan Annan - Vinilo / Turntables se han trasladado a Taiwán - La era del despegue económico Maybe it shoots from his wrist,” Stanton might have said, demonstrating a maneuver with his hand and fingers. Stanton's fortunes revived slightly when he shared a studio with Steve Ditko, an old friend who later created Spider Man and Doctor Strange for Marvel Comics with Stan Lee. "He was a better inker than me so I let him ink. He thought my stuff was funny. We'd laugh a lot. We'd give each other ideas and characters. My Aunt Mae is the Aunt Mae in Spider Man," Stanton remembered. It was, in short, just the kind of setup that encouraged the two artists to kibbitz each other’s work. And also to lend each other a hand when deadlines loomed.You should know better than to bring a weak and puny man into my presence without fitting female clothes on his inferior body! Take those torn clothes away from him and place feminine attire on him to denote his lowly present stature." While Stanton began his career as a bondage fantasy artist for Irving Klaw, the majority of his later work depicted gender role reversal and proto-feminist female dominance scenarios. Commissioned by Klaw starting in the late 1940s, his bondage fantasy chapter serials earned him underground fame. Stanton also worked with pioneering underground fetish art publishers, Leonard Burtman, the notorious Times Square publisher.