{"product_id":"sep231702-bill-ward-studio-ed-hc-c-0-1-2","title":"BILL WARD STUDIO ED HC","description":"Vintage glamour girl artist extraordinaire Bill Ward\u003cbr\u003e gets the full Fantagraphics Studio Edition treatment\u003cbr\u003e featuring Ward's most polished, fully realized pinups\u003cbr\u003e from the 1950s and 1960s.\u003cbr\u003e Bill Ward's glamour girls were the staples of countless men's and\u003cbr\u003e humor magazines, where they shared the pages with cult models\u003cbr\u003e like Bettie Page, Tina Louise, and Julie Newmar, and cartoons by\u003cbr\u003e fellow \"good girl\" artists such as Archie's Dan Decarlo and Playboy's\u003cbr\u003e Jack Cole. What set Ward apart - and above - his talented\u003cbr\u003e contemporaries in terms of sheer image-making was his use of the\u003cbr\u003e conte crayon. When drawn on simple newsprint stock, this potent\u003cbr\u003e combination created Ward's trademark gossamer sheen on his women's thigh-high\u003cbr\u003e stockings.\u003cbr\u003e This Fantagraphics Studio edition showcases the best of Ward's Humorama\u003cbr\u003e work and includes a healthy number of what became known as his \"telephone girls.\"\u003cbr\u003e Tame by today's standards, Ward's telephone girls were always caught in candid\u003cbr\u003e moments when they just happened to be talking on the phone dressed in gossamer\u003cbr\u003e lingerie in innocently provocative poses.\u003cbr\u003e Most of the images in this volume were drawn between 1955 and 1965 when Ward\u003cbr\u003e was at the height of his skill. They have been scanned in super high resolution from\u003cbr\u003e original art and reproduced to highlight every sheen and accentuate every curve to\u003cbr\u003e its fullest. The book not only reproduces more than 150 of Ward's most beautifully\u003cbr\u003e rendered illustrations, but also serves as a time capsule to a more innocent moment\u003cbr\u003e in pop culture when these images were shocking.\u003cbr\u003e The Fantagraphics Studio Edition also features an introduction by fashion\/\u003cbr\u003e style icon and burlesque superstar Dita Von Teese. An original pinup art collector\u003cbr\u003e herself, Dita was mostly recently featured in Taylor Swift's music video \"Bejeweled.\"\u003cbr\u003e Alex Chun is a Los Angeles-based writer\/editor focusing on all things pop culture.\u003cbr\u003e Dita Von Teese is the brightest star in burlesque since Gypsy Rose Lee. As style icon\u003cbr\u003e and muse to artists and photographers, she has appeared on magazine covers and\u003cbr\u003e on the runways for the world's top designers.","brand":"FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46446512636127,"sku":"SEP231702","price":245.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0355\/5285\/4156\/files\/STL271828.jpg?v=1731112055","url":"https:\/\/thelabyrinthstore.com\/products\/sep231702-bill-ward-studio-ed-hc-c-0-1-2","provider":"LabyrinthBooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}