Showing posts with label good girl art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label good girl art. Show all posts

Friday, August 11, 2023

Friday Fun DOLL MAN QUARTERLY "Torchy"

Here's the premiere tale of one of the best-known "good girl art" comic strips of the Golden Age...
...which according to the Grand Comics Database, has (surprisingly) never been reprinted!
From this debut in Quality's Doll Man Quarterly #8 (1946) onward, writer/artist Bill Ward's Torchy kept gaining fans with each appearance, continuing in Doll Man until the book's cancellation as of #47 in 1953 as well as simultaneously branching out into Modern Comics from #53 (1946) to #102 (1950) and a six-issue run of her own self-named comic in 1949-50!
The strip established Ward, who had been doing work in every genre, solidly as a "good girl" artist, which he utilized when the comics business collapsed in the mid-1950s to get assignments from men's magazines.
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(which, despite the misleading cover featuring a "modern" interpretaion of Torchy, features a strip by Bill Ward detailing how the Torchy series was created!)

Saturday, February 15, 2020

"Good Girl" Artist Bill Ward Goes Black!

Though known for his...stimulating...renditions of buxom (and usually blonde) women...

...Bill Ward was one of several well-known comic artists who provided Playboy-style cartoons featuring Black women (and men) to Duke, a 1950s magazine intended to attract the young, male, African-American audience that other male-oriented mags didn't (yet) cater to!
You'l note that while the men are clearly African-American, the women have more of a "look" like Dorothy Dandridge (here as seen in her only genre film, Tarzan's Peril).
Since some of the cartoons in the issue showed both men and women as Black...

...we're not sure if it was editorial choice or Ward's lack of ability to portray attractive Black women with more "ethnic" features...
I don't know if Ward contributed any illustrations for the remaining five issues of the mag's run.
If anybody can provide more info, please contact me!
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