Gene Bilbrew
~ 1923 – 1974
Gene Bilbrew was an American cartoonist and fetish artist working mainly in the genres of femdom and bondage. He signed his work with his own name. He drew under a range of pseudonyms. These included Eneg (“Gene” spelled backwards), Van Rod, and Bondy. Gilbert was used for his early transgender artworks, and I believe that the signature van O also is connected to Bilbrew although I could not find any confirmation for this.
He took freelance assignments within the African American community throughout his life. For instance, he produced modernized cover art for Victorian-era lottery numbers books.
Bilbrew’s “bizarre art” career began in 1951. This was made possible through underground artist and pioneer Eric Stanton. Bilbrew met Stanton while attending Cartoonists and Illustrators School. From that point forward, Bilbrew concentrated on fetish art. He produced work for notable underground publishers such as Irving Klaw, Edward Mishkin, Stanley Malkin, and the Sturman brothers. He also produced many illustrations and covers for Leonard Burtman. Burtman was the publisher of Exotique, a fetish magazine published between 1955 and 1959.
His career declined with the coming of relaxed censorship laws of the 1960s. During this time, his substance abuse worsened in the early 1970s.
According to Eric Stanton, Gene Bilbrew died in the back of a Times Square adult bookstore in May, 1974
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On this page you will find albums from comics mainly, and a few mixed albums. For loose artworks visit my other (free) site.
I can truly recommend visiting Gene Bilbrew Revealed by Richard Perez.
Publications featured in gallery below:
Page 1
- Madam Adista (1955)
- Captain Kidnapp, Lady Pirate (1955)
- Insubordination College (1955)
- His Dreams Came True (1958)
- Bizarre Desires (1958)
- Blue Lace (1958)
- Bondage Society's Gala Slave Ball (1959)
- Adonis in High Heels (1959)
- Bizarrely Clad Amazons (1959)
- Panty Raiders (ca 1959)
- Petticoat Boy (ca 1960)
- The Subjugated (ca 1960)
- He's her Sister (ca 1960)
- Women of history dominating men (1961)
- Brutal Punishment (1962) - extra large format
- Bound-6 (1962)
- Executive Transvestite (1965)
- A Transvestite in Paris, vol 1&2 (ca 1965)
- Brothers Keeper (1966)
- Transvestite Lawman (1966)
- Panty Clad Boy (1969)
- Transvestite Drive-in (1970)
- Jet Bondage (1971)
Page 2
- Midnight Masquerade
- Crossdressing Story
- Captives of Madame de la Bondage
- Torture Stories
- Sisters TeeVee Revenge
- Panty Waist Male
- Subduded
- Male Slave
- Domineta
- Lads in Panty
- Transvestite Foursome
- Slave Mark
- Poor little rich boy-girl
- Garden of Pain
- Bondage Terror
- How to train a Husband
- Boys will be Girls
- Servant Problems
- Come on Girl
- The Slaves
43 albums/646 artworks (please notice the albums are divided over multiple pages)
Latest Update: March 14, 2026 -> Added Blue Lace- page 1 (8 artworks)
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it would be lovely if you could add a category “femfight” for tagging theses works – denoting female vs female fighting and f vs f wrestling.
Thank you for this suggestion, I did start already: https://vintagefetishart.com/tag/femfight/ but have to browse through many pages to see if they need update on the tag (like this page).