hugob00m wrote:Actually, if you take a look at the hairstyle of the Captain's spankee, you'll see that she's Katie! Prior to that drawing by Endart, Dan had done a cartoon, at my suggestion, that Katie should pass through a dimensional portal into an alternate universe, the universe in which Captain Woodshed upholds law and order. (Of course, even in Captain Woodshed's universe Katie wasn't a true villainess, she just annoyed the Captain by playing with the little hands on the side of his mask!) After Dan drew his take of the story, Endart decided to add his version of what might happen if Katie and the Captain ever crossed paths.
B00m - I had suspected it was something like that, and I'm grateful to you and
Phil for supplying these additional details. I have updated the page accordingly.
butch wrote:Realy love the info on The Big Five before they drew for Humorama
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only remember seeing Mr. DeCarlo works in Archie and Ward doing fetish art!! THANKS!!
overbarrel49 wrote: part 2 of the comparison of the humorama cartoonists was truly fascinating. i had little knowledge of any of this prior to arriving at CSR and such articles are really educational and interesting for me. i don't really have any specific comments about the article except to say, thanks for the web-education
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i do have one question though............of these artists, do you have a favorite?
Glad you liked the article, Butch and Phil! It was a lot of effort, so it's good to know it's appreciated
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. In this article, I didn't mention a favorite, but yes, I do have one:
Kirk Stiles. Despite his flaws, which mar a lot of his work and which I believe are due to excessive haste, at his best I think he's the most erotic of the
Big Five Plus One because his women are the most beautiful.
Morrice gives us pretty girls;
DeCarlo the deft caricature of the sexy bombshell;
Homer attractive sophisticates who stay just this side of gorgeous;
Wenzel women whose flesh looks real but who lack a transcendent quality; and
Ward brainless bimbos who are basically just a pair of boobs with a minimum amount of personality tacked on.
I also think that Stiles probably has the greatest range of expression and does the best backgrounds (again, when he's at the top of his form). I have speculated that perhaps he was trained as a painter and none of the others were. They're all good artists, though, and a case could be made for each of them: Ward for his polish; Wenzel for his
zaftig women with (as I said above) flesh that looks real; DeCarlo for his wittiness and overall consistency (greater than the others); Homer for his ahead-of-his-time view of spanking as foreplay and intelligent women; and Morrice his old-fashioned humor.
Perhaps I'll say a little more about this when I do my wind-up article (yet to be written) as the Humorama Series concludes later this year.