Bill Alexander Ander
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Bill Alexander’s career began in the 40s supplying cartoon art to the independent record label Miltone. Following that he teamed with his friend Gene Bilbrew to create what was arguably the first black superhero strip The Bronze Bomber for the weekly African American newspaper the Los Angeles Sentinel.Â
Alexander’s main claim to this fame comes from the covers he did for a group of titles known as Eerie Publications. These were put out by the aforementioned Myron Fass, a former horror comic artist who became the king of pulp-exploitation quickies and fly-by-night publications. I also read somewhere that he used the pseudonym Allesandro.
Whatever the case Alexander never drew another regular superhero strip after the Bronze Bomber. Instead he built a still dedicated following among collectors of fetish art. In the early 50s he began providing comics and illustrations to Irving Klaw, the man who would introduce the world to fetish art star Eric Stanton and go on to make a household name out of Betty Page. In the early 60s Alexander started to produce book covers, providing hundreds of titillating covers to soft core paperbacks in the After Hours line, which were put together in an editorial office above a New York Strip Joint.
Alexander provided covers for the Harding Files series that catered to every sexual kink imaginable (and more than a few that defy imagination).
In 1974 Alexander did his last horror cover for Myron Fass. In 1978 he stopped working for Star Distributors and moved to California to work for London Enterprises where he became the art director for their slick line of bondage periodicals. He continued in this role until at least the mid 80s and little or nothing is known of what he did or where he went after this point.
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Publications featured on this page
- Peggy's Distress On the Planet Venus (1960)
2 albums/23 artworks
Latest Update: December 28, 2024 -> Created new page for this artist (23 artworks)
