Femdom Artists

He’s Mine, Jack Vance

Jack Vance is a much admired, collected science fiction writer. He’s Mine must be a true rarity.

Bill Alexander’s cover – a wimpy looking guy, probably inherently submissive and easily manipulated by the young women – is almost painful to look at.

Of course nothing much happened inside. Unique Book and related imprints were very, very mild on the inside.

There really is no reason to believe that Pen Pals is about a F/m or any sort of kinky long distance relationship.

But I have a terrible weakness for some of Bill Alexander’s odder covers. And there’s no reason I can’t pretend that he writing to his distance mistress.

Not that anyone would write letters anymore. Email and instant messaging has put paid to postal prose.

I used to writes some great letters.

Bill Alexander, an almost forgotten cover illustrator of erotic paperbacks of what we now think of as the vintage period.

I used to blame the editor or art director for the convoluted, amorphous cover art that many of Unique Books and Wee Hours books have. Now I suspect it was really due to Bill Alexander’s flawed talents. He deserves a place at the table with comics artist Fletcher Hanks and film director Ed Wood. Artists manqué whose very failings leave their works forever lodged in our memories.

Nothing really is known of Alexander other than that he may have been African-American.

This cover is an old favorite. Partly because I don’t know what is happening but mostly for the Devil Woman costume. The Femdom content you ask? How could a woman who dresses like that not engage in the recreational torment of men?