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Bill Ward: The Fantagraphics Studio Edition
Hardcover
Series: Fantagraphics Studio Edition
General Graphic NovelsArt & Popular Culture
Publisher Price: $175.00
ISBN13: 9781683968726
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Published: Jan 30 2024
Pages: 180
Weight: 7.90
Height: 1.90 Width: 15.90 Depth: 19.30
Language: English
This Fantagraphics Studio edition showcases the best of Ward's Humorama work and includes a healthy number of what became known as his telephone girls. Tame by today's standards, Ward's telephone girls were always caught in candid moments when they just happened to be talking on the phone dressed in gossamer lingerie in innocently provocative poses.
The majority of the images in this volume were drawn between 1955 and 1965 when Ward was at the height of his skill. They have been scanned in super high-resolution from original art and reproduced to highlight every sheen and accentuate every curve to its fullest. The book not only reproduces more than 150 of Ward's most beautifully rendered illustrations, but also serves as a time capsule to a more innocent moment in pop culture when these images were shocking.
The Fantagraphics Studio Edition also features an introduction by fashion/style icon and burlesque superstar Dita Von Teese. An original pinup art collector herself, Dita was mostly recently featured in Taylor Swift's music video Bejeweled.
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