Femdom Artists

A completely vanilla romance comic book cover by Bill Ward.

I post this because it is one of the few comic book covers by Ward that look something like the artist he would evolve into during his pin-up and glamour art periods (gloves, skirt).

NB: some of the Torchy art attributed to Ward on blogs is actually by Gil Fox.

p>More comic book femdom.

Originally posted 2011-02-16 05:02:12. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

An old issue of Fetish Times with a Bill Ward cover. I think this scene was designed by committee.

Originally posted 2010-12-24 06:32:55. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Beyond Intercourse isn’t a bad title for book – a better book – on atypical sexuality like BDSM.

That whip irks me. Anyone who has done this in real life knows that arranging for enough spare to allow free use of a singletail whip without devastating crockery or being encumbered by furniture can be a real hassle. For an outlandish instrument like the woman has you’d need a castle or auditorium.

Dr. Guenter Klow is obviously a bogus Germanic seeming name to suggest authority to the ignorant. Having seen Dr.Klow’s name on so many sleazy kink books I finally got curious.

Her legal name was pedestrian Dorothy Daniels. She’s thought to have employed hundreds of pseudonyms and written hundreds of books. Sort of makes her the Lionel Fanthorpe of BDSM.

Originally posted 2011-01-16 08:34:52. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

The Spanking Stepmother, Raymond Rogers

Do you have dreams of a dominatrix-cum-stepmother?

I’ve never had kinky fantasies about any family member. Not that I’m criticising the kink. The feelings are opaque to me.

Bill Ward with Some of His Muses

I recall the very first time I saw a drawing by Bill Ward. It was in an early issue of the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide. Ward used to run a full-page ad offering to do original drawings for a fee. Naturally given the context the center of an ad was Torchy the narrow-hipped, huge-breasted young woman whose misadventures he drew for Quality Comics.

The art was awful. But you could tell that the cause was in his hands. Either Ward had arthritis or his fingers were shaking. An awful thing for an artist. In his last years Jack Kirby would leave the room to sign an autograph so no one could see his hands shake. (And Wally Wood killed himself when his vision began to fail.)

After I opened my used bookshop in which I also sell comic books I became more familiar with Bill Ward’s oeuvre.

His Torchy art when he was a young man was fine. The Torchy stories were mildly funny in a sexist way. Ditzy Torchy was as anatomically improbable as Ward women always were. Her body literally caused traffic accidents and left men drooling.

The decline of the American comic book industry in the 1950s saw Ward move on to pretty girl gag cartoons. Stylistically this would remain Bill Ward’s most mature work. The illustrations had an appealingly limpid quality. The emphasis was on glamour of a cheap and obvious sort. Despite the mink stoles and gowns the women had faces that somehow always look vulgar however lovely they ostensibly are.

That market also went into decline. Ward became an active contributor to From Sex to Sexty. We had a stack of those in the shop a few years ago. (I’d seen the magazine on the newsstands as a boy but never the interior.) The magazine was as lowbrow as it gets. The gags were always obvious.

I think I recall reading that the publishers Ward worked for after his glamour gag period paid much less. This forced him to draw faster. Quantity was necessary for Ward to sustain his income. Ward’s work became sloppy, his line much less fluid.

At some time Bill Ward started doing covers and interior illustrations for pornographic books. And as you must know if you are visiting Femdom Artists he became one of the most popular illustrators of sadistic women ever. I have no idea how much his porn work paid. But those publishers were notoriously cheap.

Often I’ve wondered which of the qualities of that work came from Ward and which were at the editor’s behest. Breasts as big was the women’s heads may have been the latter. Not that Ward ever drew a flat-chested woman.

The appeal of Bill Ward’s Femdom art lies in the outré and extreme situations he depicted. Women shooting arrows at men, knocking them down the stairs, sticking electric prods up their sphincter. The women were the most relentless sadists. Even Steffi could match their violence and cruelty.

I loved it. For a time.

Then a lover pointed out how awful the women’s faces looked. Suddenly the drawing of the woman wearing stilettos as she jumped up and down on a man’s buttocks no longer seemed as exciting. Eventually all I could notice were the awful eyelashes (as if the women applied eyeliner with a trowel), anatomical exaggerations, aesthetic failures.

Bill Ward no longer stoked my masochistic fantasies.

But I’m sure that you gentle reader still love Bill Ward’s fierce female sadists.

I wish someone with a more attractive style would recreate some of those drawings or least create new ones with the same disturbing intensity.

I think that I read Bill Ward never felt shame in his kinky work. He certainly deserves our respect.

(Please feel free to leave a comment telling me about your favorite Bill Ward drawings.)

Originally posted 2010-09-01 05:24:17. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Cartoon Fun and Comedy

This magazine cover is from Bill Ward’s glamour gag cartoon period. Very possibly it is the first drawing by him of a female spanking a male. Perhaps is first ‘Femdom’ illustration.

Originally posted 2010-09-06 14:29:33. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Can’t imagine a more diabolical nurse and I certainly wouldn’t want to check into that hospital.

Do you have sadomasochistic medical fantasies?

Originally posted 2008-12-30 13:00:12. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

I know this man isn’t on his knees in the tradition way of a submissive male. But the drawing is by Bill Ward so I thought I’d stretch the point. I like Ward’s glamour work much more than the dementedly sadistic.

Shoe salesman: the retifist’s dream job.

Originally posted 2010-05-17 05:43:37. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Her breasts are so huge it is hard to believe she can stand up straight. Not that the idea of kneeling before a woman, arms and legs bound isn’t exciting. The top of a presumably New York skyscraper is an odd choice of venue.

What do you think of how the dominatrix is drawn?

Originally posted 2009-01-01 10:00:12. Republished by Blog Post Promoter