 Rangers Comics #26: “Angels from Hell” Good girl art (GGA) is a type of art (usually drawings or paintings) depicting attractive women. GGA was most commonly featured in comic books, pulp magazines and crime fiction. When cited as an art movement, it is usually capitalized as Good Girl Art. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (661x1027, 388 KB) This image is of the cover of a single issue of a comic book, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the comic book or the artist(s) which produced the...
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The label “Good girl art” might be somewhat confusing or awkward to the uninitiated, since it does necessarily refer to depiction of “good girls” as the term is commonly used for women who are honest, moral or sexually chaste. Instead, it describes the work of illustrators skilled at creating sexy female figure art. In his 2001 Collectors Press book, The Great American Paperback: An Illustrated Tribute to Legends of the Book, Richard A. Lupoff defined Good Girl Art: Honesty is also the name of two plants; see Honesty (plant) . Honesty, the quality of being honest, is a value which can be defined in multiple ways. ...
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| | A cover illustration depicting an attractive young woman, usually in skimpy or form-fitting clothing, and designed for erotic stimulation. The term does not apply to the morality of the “good girl”, who is often a gun moll, tough cookie or wicked temptress. | | The term was first coined by comic book dealers who inserted it in their sale lists to call attention to covers and panels showing sexy women in comics from Fiction House and other publishers. Later, use of the phrase expanded to indicate a style of artwork in which attractive female characters of comic books, cartoons and covers for digest magazines, paperbacks and pulp magazines are rendered in a lush manner and are shown in provocative (and sometimes very improbable) situations from jungles and beaches to bedrooms and bondage. Image File history File links Cquote1. ...
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A model in bondage cuffs with a leg spreader In the context of BDSM, bondage involves people being tied up or otherwise restrained for pleasure. ...
 One of Harold McCauley's 1950s Good Girl science-fantasy covers. A strong influence on the movement was illustrator Rolf Armstrong (1889-1960), labeled the “Father of Good Girl Art” because of his creamy calendar art for Brown & Bigelow and iridescent illustrations for such magazines as American Weekly, College Humor, Life, Judge, Photoplay, Pictorial Review and Woman's Home Companion, along with his advertisements for Hires Root Beer, Palmolive, Pepsi, Oneida Silverware and other products. Image File history File links HMcCauley54. ...
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Rolf Armstrong (1899–February 22, 1960) was an American painter of pin-up art. ...
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Edward Steichens portrait of Greta Garbo. ...
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Edna Purviance on the cover of Photoplay magazine Photoplay was one of the first film fan magazines. ...
During the peak period of comic book Good Girl Art, the 1940s to the 1950s, leading artists of the movement included Bill Ward (for his blonde Torchy) and Matt Baker. Arguably the king of Good Girl Art, Baker was one of the few African Americans working as an artist during the Golden Age of Comics. Today, Baker's rendition of Phantom Lady is considered a collectors item, and much of his GGA is sought after. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (672x936, 130 KB) This image is of the cover of a single issue of a comic book, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the comic book or the artist(s) which produced the...
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Bill Ward Bill Ward (born William Ward, May 5, 1948, Birmingham, England), is the drummer for the British heavy metal band Black Sabbath. ...
Phantom Lady #17 (April 1948). ...
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Phantom Lady #17 (April, 1948), Fox Feature Syndicate. ...
In 1985, Bill Pearson edited and published Good Girls, a collection of artwork by himself, Frank Frazetta, Roy Krenkel, Bob McLeod, Victor Perard (author of Anatomy and Drawing and How to Draw), Wally Wood, Mike Zeck and other artists. Bill Pearson (born 1938 in Belle Fourche, South Dakota) is an American comic book writer, artist, editor and letterer. ...
Frank Frazetta (born February 9, 1928) is one of the worlds most influential fantasy and science fiction artists. ...
Roy G. Krenkel, (1918-1983) was an American illustrator who specialized in fantasy drawings and paintings. ...
Wallace Wally Wood (born June 17, 1927, Menahga, Minnesota, United States; died November 2, 1981), was an American writer-artist best known for his work in EC Comics and Mad. ...
Mike Zeck in an American comic book illustrator. ...
Since 1990, Bill Black's AC Comics has published 19 issues of his Good Girl Art Quarterly (incorporating several issues of Good Girl Comics), featuring a mix of photos and new comics with reprints of vintage stories. In addition to Baker, Black, Frazetta, Ward and Wood, the artists in this series include Nina Albright, Chris Allen, Nick Alton, Dick Ayers, Frank Bolle, Gill Fox, Brad Gorby, Mark Heike, Chad Hunt, Ed Lane, Steve LeBlanc, Bob Lubbers, Jack Kamen, Billie Marimon, Mark Moore, Ralph Mayo, Pete Morisi, Rudy Palais, Nick Poliwko, Bob Powell, Richard Rome and Maurice Whitman. AC Comics evolved out of Paragon Publications, and was known as Americomics in its first year of existence. ...
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References
- Beaulieu, Dennis. Interview with artist Richard Bassford on Wally Wood and Good Girl Art. CFA-APA 40 (Spring, 1996), publication of the Comic & Fantasy Art Amateur Press Association.
- Lupoff, Richard A. The Great American Paperback: An Illustrated Tribute to Legends of the Book. Collectors Press, 2001.
Airbrush illustration by Richard Bassford Richard Bassford is an American illustrator who has worked in both advertising and comic books. ...
See also Bad girl art, in the world of comic books, is the counterpart of good girl art. ...
This image of Betty Grable became the archetype of pin-ups during World War II A pin-up girl or pin-up model is a model whose mass-produced pictures see wide appeal as pop culture. ...
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- Jim Burrows: Cheesecake and the Art of the Pin-Up. Illustrated book-length study on origins of cheesecake art to the present.
- Jim Burrows: "Strong Women in Comics." Illustrated survey of Good Girl Art
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