edited by Alex Chun Though wasp-waisted long-legged women were derigueur in the digests, Wenzel set himself apart from the rest of the best with his decidedly more Rubenesque rendering of the female form. Without a doubt, Wenzel is the most overlooked of all the pin-up cartoon artists of his era, but with this volume, which features a selection of his sexiest and most sensual ink-wash images, Wenzel takes his rightful place among Humorama's top artists.

Pin-Up Art of Bill Wenzel

chun, alex

Wenzel, Bill

Literature & Fiction

Fantagraphics Books

by Don Flowers Whether blondes or brunettes, showgirls or housewives, Flowers rendered his comely protagonists with equal aplomb. A close look at Flowers' body of work reveals that he was really an illustrator playing cartoonist. This volume collects the best of his cartoons, and showcases Flowers at the height of his skill. Don Flowers' Glamor Girls features a foreward by cartoon legend Sergio Aragonés and an introductory essay by editor Alex Chun.

Glamor Girls of Don Flowers

Comics & Graphic Novels

Flowers, Don

Graphic Novels

by Alex Chun &amp; Jacob Covey Culling through thousands of images, editor Alex Chun selected the best of Ward's Conte crayon pin-ups, including many of his infamous telephone girls, many of which have not seen print in half a century! His mastery of the Conte crayon allowed him to produce unparalleled textures, including the wonderful sheen on satiny curve-hugging dresses and on black thigh-high stockings that became Ward trademarks.

Pin-Up Art of Bill Ward

Arts & Photography

Ward, Bill

Individual Artists

edited by Alex Chun &amp; Jacob Covey Although best known as one of the greatest syndicated cartoonists of the 20th Century, Dennis the Menace creator Henry "Hank" Ketcham also spent nearly a decade as a gag cartoonist for major New York magazines like the Colliers and the Saturday Evening Post. In these gag cartoons, which were primarily published between 1942 and 1950, one can already see the endearing troublemaker that would become the protagonist in his long-running strip. (In fact, Ketcham in his Dennis the Menace cartoons, reused some of the gags and images almost verbatim.) Collected for the first time are hundreds of Ketcham's long forgotten magazine cartoons. Together, they provide a rare glimpse into what would later become one the most beloved comics to grace the comics pages!

Wheres Dennis? The Magazine Cartoon Art of Hank Ketcham

KETCHAM, Hank

Comic Strips

Jack Cole has been justly celebrated as the creator of Plastic Man and an innovative comic-book artist of the 1940s (especially in Art Spiegelman and Chip Kidd's Jack Cole and Plastic Man: Forms Stretched To Their Limits). However, after finishing his 14-year run on the title, he found himself looking for something new and decided to develop his craft at single panel “gag” cartoons, which led work for the Humorama line of “girls and gags” magazines. His ability to render the female form was already without peer, and exquisite line drawings and a mastery of ink-wash soon appeared. The Classic Pin-Up Art of Jack Cole, now in softcover, collects the rare '50s pin-ups that led to the artist's gig as Playboy's marquee cartoonist. Along with a foreword by editor Alex Chun, this volume (originally released in a now out-of-print hardcover edition that fetches high prices in the secondhand market) collects the best of these hidden gems, including several shot from Cole's stunning original art. Most of these drawings had not seen print elsewhere since their original publication.

The Classic Pin-Up Art of Jack Cole