ONE MAN'S NOSTALGIA MAY BE ANOTHER MAN'S.... by Dave Goode

The other night I had this really strange dream involving Bill Ward and Russ Meyer, the Titans of TIT-illation. I had discovered comic book artist/illustrator Ward about age twelve when a buddy gave me a copy of Cartoon Parade, a magazine that was published by Martin Goodman the same guy that published Marvel Comics. The mag was a collection of pin-up pics (no nudity) of actresses, models and burlesque queens. Plus risque cartoons by the likes of Dan De Carlo, Bill Wenzel, and Bill Ward. I always found Ward's glamour girl illustrations to be more titillating than the pin-up photos. I discovered Russ Meyer about a year later when I traded three comic books for a copy of Playboy that featured a pictorial on the Meyer directed movie BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (1970).

The dream involved my working on a project with Meyer and Ward. A movie version of the Captain Bondage comic book. What? You never heard of Captain Bondage? You're not alone. Back in the 1980s I met Bill Ward and worked with him on a couple of strips featuring burlesque queens Stella Starlet and Sugar Caine for Weird Smut comics published by John A. Mozzer. Captain Bondage was another character created by myself and illustrated by Ward. The burlesque of comic book superheroes made it's only appearance in Screw magazine published by Al Goldstein. Here are a few of the tamer pages from the story.

 

 

In any case in my dream the movie starred three of my favorite Russ Meyer's stars Alaina Capri, Lorna Maitland, and Tura Satana. The flick also featured ape - suit actor George Barrows. Indeed the "stuff that dreams are made of". Below there's a new cartoon by Vance Capley and myself featuring our retro burlesque cartoon creation Miss Ginger Snaps.

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BURLESQUE COMICS by Dave Goode

I've mentioned in the past that I've been a fan of old-time burlesque and striptease since I saw the movie GYPSY as a preteen back in the 1960s. In my early twenties I started collecting mags like CABARET and MODERN MAN that featured articles and pictorials on burlesque and nightclub performers. It was also about this time that I started collecting SHERRY THE SHOWGIRL and SHOWGIRLS comics from Atlas Comics in the 1950s. As most comic book fans know Atlas was the name of the company that would become Marvel Comics in the 60s. I'm sure that the target audience for these Atom Age comics were adolescent boys. I mean the stories were just flimsy excuses to draw the female characters in cheesecake poses by legendary comic book artist Dan De Carlo.De Carlo was best known for his work at Archie Comics in the 1960s. 

 

And just how many comics were there out there in the 50s had a lead character who was a cabaret performer / showgirl ? Hmm. Just what was Torchy's occupation ?

A little while back my buddy Vance Capley and I introduced a character Miss Ginger Snaps. We put her in a strip with a character we called Pharaoh Love, a black bodybuilder. We then put her in two one - pagers of her own. We then decided to build a comic around her. Below is the first page of that comic. Give us some feedback on what you think. Is the world ready for a retro cheesecake comic strip?

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