![]() ![]() Jacob Covey lives with his wife in Seattle, WA, where he works as Art Director at Fantagraphics Books. In his spare time, he collects original cartoon pin-up art and maintains the website His books include The Pin-Up Art of Dan DeCarlo (two volumes), The Pin-Up Art of Bill Wenzel, The Pin-up Art of Bill Ward, The Glamor Girls of Don Flowers, The Glamour Girls of Bill Ward, Classic Pin-Up Art of Jack Cole, and The Pin-Up Art of Humorama. He also edits a series of art books for Fantagraphics. A former staff writer for the Los Angeles Daily Journal, he is currently a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times where he covers pop-culture. In 1941 Wenzel was drafted into the Army. Virtually every humor and men's magazine, ranging from Judge in the mid-'40s to Sex to Sexy in the '60s and '70s, boasted two, if not a dozen, of Wenzel's pin-up cartoons. No other pin-up cartoon artist over a 30-year period was as prolific or as omnipresent as Bill Wenzel. 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.Īlex Chun is a longtime journalist living in Los Angeles. Bill Wenzel was born in Irvington, New Jersey and grew up in nearby Union Township. pages: 216: genres: adult anthology art erotic humour. 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. ![]()
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