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alteredarchie · 2 months

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Archie's great artist, Dan DeCarlo, drew this for Gaze Magazine in August, 1961. You can see that someone at Timely censored it before publication with some black marker scribbles. Luckily, using highly advanced infrared x-ray technology, we here at #alteredarchie have been able to uncover previously hidden treasure. The full glory is revealed!

#archie comics #dan decarlo #humorama #alteredarchie #altered archie

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paintermagazine · 19 days

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‘Piggy bank!’

Original artist: Bill Ward

Source: ‘Humorama’ (1969)

#pin up style #pin up art #comic book art #pin up cartoon #good girl art #pulp art #comic strip art #Bill Ward #1960s #1969 #Humorama

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atomic-chronoscaph · 1 year

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art by Bill Ward (1960s)

#bill ward #cartoonist #pinup art #humorama #torchy #risqué comics #men's magazines #sixties #1960s

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thebestcomicbookpanels · 5 months

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"Don't worry...I'll look better after a few drinks!"

A Humorama gag by Dan DeCarlo

#the best comic book panels #humorama #dan decarlo #archie comics

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federer7 · 1 year

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«I just can't see why you guys want me along -- I've never hunted before!» (Humorama, January 1965)

Cartoon illustration by Dan DeCarlo

#Dan DeCarlo #1965 #january #Humorama

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lisamarie-vee · 10 months

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#vintage magazine #humorama #illustration

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understandingbimbos · 10 months

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Rosalie Duthé, Anita Loos, Bill Wenzel, and Barbie.

I think at this point we've all accepted there's no single bimbo point of origin (or, POO). No bimbo ground zero. Rosalie Duthé is often cited as not only the first example of a bimbo but the first dumb blonde.

At the moment, she's even on the Wikipedia page!

Which is honestly really unfortunate imo seeing as she was a real person and a prostitute, but that's neither here nor there, I guess. Anyway. Unless I'm mistaken, we don't actually know much about Rosalie Duthé. And even if she was a singular influence on the very concept of bimbos and dumb blondes, then what happened? Where are the examples of dumb blonde and bimboish characters appearing in plays and literature from 1775 onward? How far did this idea spread outside of France? I'm not saying its not possible or that these examples don't exist, but its hard to pin down. When Rosalie Duthé was alive "bimbo" was still only Italian for "little boy". And while the play mocking her may have introducd the concept of the dumb blonde that doesn't mean it was necessarily solidified as an archetype right then and there.

Enter Anita Loos. By the time her comic novel, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, is published in November of 1925 (after having been serialized in Harper's Bazaar) the dumb blonde, bimbo, and gold digger are already established archetypes. While Loos most definitely helped popularize these idea with her internationally best-selling often-adapted satire, she was utilizing what was already there. If anything the original idea she pushed was that men prefer blondes and that blondes have more fun. Anita Loos also wrote the screenplay for the 1932 film, Red-Headed Woman, where Jean Harlow plays an ambitious flirty giggly woman that fucks pretty much every male character that appears in the film (and doesn't appear in the film).

(pictured, Jean Harlow and Anita Loos)

Then of course in the 50s we get Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Mamie Van Doren, and Judy Holliday. There were also men's magazines like Humorama featuring art from artists like Bill Ward, Dan DeCarlo, and Bill Wenzel. Featuring women who were either clueless, horny, or gold-digging, but all extremely buxom.

And 1959 saw the release of the original Barbie, which was just a slightly modified version of Bild Lilli, a German sex doll. I don't have much to say about that, its still something I need to do more research on, and that's part of the point of this post. Connections are there but hard to find. I really can't speak to what influence Barbie has had specifically, I think it may all be surface level, but there's something to be said about the fact so many women I follow will cite or invoke her. And that "doll" is even considered a compliment/ideal in general, physically and non-physically. You know in the sense of "You're such a doll" or "She's so pretty she looks like a doll." Its interesting. My friend says dolls represent "an easily replicated curated aesthetic" and that may be the reason for the point of reference.

There was a lot more I was going to say and this post was going to be a lot less nonsensical but I am extremely tired. I thought I could clearly and quickly get my thoughts out before I had to go to sleep. I was wrong. Sorry. Goodnight!

#understandingbimbos #bimbotxt #bimb0 #bimtheory #bimbo theory #bimbeau #bimboz #bimbeaufication #anita loos #gentlemen prefer blondes #bill wenzel #red-headed woman #jean harlow #idk #rosalie duthe #marilyn monroe #bild lilli

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rocket-prose · 2 years

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"That? Oh, I guess that's the red tape attached to the offer!"

Original Dan DeCarlo art, published in Gee-Whiz November-1957 (Humorama, 1957). The gag was reprinted in the January-1966 Joker, and the April-1971 issue of Laugh Digest.

#Dan DeCarlo #original comic art

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odk-2 · 2 years

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Bettie Page

from Various 1950's Pulp Magazines