1 album/9 artworks Claude Koga (also credited as Claude K.) is a little-known Japanese illustrator whose distinctive bondage and SM drawings appeared in the classic magazine Kitan Club during the early 1960s, particularly in 1963. Working under this pseudonym, Koga created a series of sharp, narrative illustrations that often framed women as…
TACO was a fetish illustrator active in the mid-20th century American “bizarre” art scene. Very little is known about the artist’s real identity or life. The only known work attributed to TACO is a special unexpurgated collection of bizarre and unusual drawings that appeared in the limited-edition publication Submission (fully illustrated). The…
Today I’d like to present the interesting updates I’ve been working on over the past two weeks.Some artist pages have been updated, as well as the related gallery. A very interesting page was also added about Les Callipyges, a classic late-nineteenth-century French flagellation novel. The artworks belonging to the two published…
To avoid cluttering the site with lots of individual update-only blog posts, I gather every update of the year into one comprehensive post. This keeps things clear and tidy.Previous years can be viewed here, and below are the site additions made so far in 2026. Like to be informed via…
Les Callipyges, ou les Délices de la verge is a classic late-nineteenth-century French flagellation novel. It centres on a small group of fashionable English ladies (the Callipyges) who share both an exceptional physical attribute and an enthusiastic devotion to the birch and the martinet. Under the guidance of experienced schoolmistresses,…
Charles Maxwel Plaisted (1902 – 1956) was an American illustrator and comic artist best known for his work in the “spicy” pulp magazines of the 1930s and early comic books. Born in Penn Yan, New York, Plaisted studied at the University of Pennsylvania (1919–1923) and later at the Art Students…