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Before it gets too cold here in Chicago, let's take a last refreshing dip with our
Swimsuit Spanking Issue:
- Doctor Cylon revisits his page on Ariel, adding both right-hand and left-hand paddlings. Actually, these take place on the bare, but at least they're nautically themed.
- Also nautically-themed is a new scan of Earl Engleman's A Spanking Breeze, in which we see that the round-bottomed spankee was actually wearing tight shorts that looked a lot like a swimsuit. Plus: Coyote on Fire just sent us a colored version in which it's her Fanny that's on Fire!
- An old gag features a man giving a pretty girl a good swat on her rear end, then pretending he was only trying to swat a fly. This version takes place on a swimsuit, which doesn't improve the gag any but does fit in with our swimsuit theme.
- A spanking that does take place on a swimsuit seat is this one from The Female Animal. This one has been seen before, but at least it has a handsome spanker, a bratty spankee, and a swimsuit.
- On the other hand, something that hasn't been seen much but deserves to be is Lyndal Ferguson's depiction of The Creature from the Black Lagoon: The Creature isn't just whistling Dixie when he posts a "No Swimming" sign, as a young woman finds out when she fails to heed his warning and goes swimming anyway!
- The only known spanking by famed "Good Girl" Golden Age comics artist Matt Baker is applied to the bottom half of a two-piece suit!
- A never before seen spanking from Charlton romance comics is this one applied to the bikini-clad bottom of a girl who taxes her boyfriend's patience. Another CSR exclusive!
- Missed opportunities in Humorama: a spanking verse in which a bikini figures prominently, plus Bettie Page and other models wearing swimsuits - in the "Spanking In Media" Forum.
This week's search results: one new
George Morrice Humorama "spanker", which features a husband who finds another man spanking his wife, and tells the chap to carry on! Good show, old man! I actually made some progress with the
Silver Age Supergirl Spanking Search also, but as expected, the results there were completely negative. This search is now 93% complete.
Nor was that all this week: still concerned that readers may be having some trouble navigating through
CSR because it's so large now (over 800 web pages, not counting this forum or the Comics Spanking Data Base), I've tried to make the radio buttons easier to see and use. I've changed the backgrounds to white so the buttons will have better contrast, replaced some of the stranger-looking ones with uniform custom colors (except for the two comics galleries), and increased their sizes. I've also added a hyperlink near the top of the page, where the current gallery in named (in more recent pages, not the earlier ones); for example, where it says "Comics Gallery 2" at the top left-hand portion of the individual page. This isn't really necessary, since all the pages already have hyperlinked buttons at the bottom to return to the parent gallery, but it's not difficult for me to do and perhaps it will help new readers.
The change to the
Comics Galleries button is different: the four color bands have been rearranged from vertical to horizontal, because that's how we tend to read! (The four colors, blue, green, yellow, and red symbolize the fact that comics used to be printed using just these four colors). From the beginning, it was always my intention to use color-coded buttons as a navigational aid, but I wasn't consistent enough with the plan, and some of my rather odd custom-designed buttons may have caused confusion. I hope being completely consistent going forward combined with targeted renovation of existing pages will help clear things up.
The
Home Page and the five picture gallery index pages have been completed; the
Articles,
Fiction,
Events, and
Links pages will be renovated when I can get to them. I don't plan to go back and renovate all the existing individual pages, however, because it would be too much effort for too little return, although new pages going forward will have these enhancements. Nor am I going to change the fundamental site organization - despite the difficulties some readers have had, I gave it a lot of thought back in 2004 before going live, and I still believe it's a good design, in fact superior to most other spanking sites and to
all blogs (which have inherent limitations the individual blogger can't change) out there. A little tweaking and a little reader education should, I believe, take care of any problems.
One more change to the
Humor Gallery: I decided to segregate the
F/M material (it's only three pages) to a separate section moved to the bottom of the page. This way, those who wish to see only M/F and F/F, probably most readers, won't stumble over the F/M stuff by accident. As I don't care for F/M myself, I don't expect to post too much more of it, but I do have some mostly or entirely unseen Humorama F/M cartoons that I feel obligated to get out there. Since I refuse to pollute the ongoing
Humorama Series with them, I will probably have to do them as part of another
Halloween Horror Special (the horror being of course in the F/M orientation). I have three more cartoons by
Bill Ward, who also did many outside of Humorama, one more by
Kirk Stiles (who did only two that I know of), and perhaps most surprisingly, one by
Bill Wenzel! Many of you will be relieved to know there are none by
Homer or
Dan DeCarlo.
Next week: things get back to "normal" with the resumption of the
Humorama Series, a new series of comic strip spankings begins with a fourth from
Steve Canyon (which unfortunately takes place off-camera), and a sort-of spanking from
The Three Stooges!

Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!