Max Carl Friedrich Beckmann (1884 – 1950) was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement.In the 1920s, he was associated with the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit). This was an outgrowth of Expressionism. It…
Petite dactylo is a French spanking novel by Pierre Dumarchey, published under his pen name Sadie Blackeyes. It was first published in 1913 or 1914 by Jean Fort in Paris. The novel’s title translates to “Little Typist”, and the frontispiece apparently shows the protagonist, a young female typist. The first…
The Pearl: A Magazine of Facetiae and Voluptuous Reading was a pornographic monthly magazine issued in London during the mid-Victorian period by William Lazenby. It was closed down by the British authorities for violating contemporary standards of obscenity. The Pearl ran for eighteen issues from July 1879 to December 1880,…
Glen was one of the key illustrators behind the underground fetish comics published by Peerless Sales in New York City during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Between approximately 1958 and 1963, Peerless Sales released more than 250 four-page booklet-style prints. These were short, comic-strip formatted stories centered on mixed…
Beresford Egan (1905 – 1984) was a satirical draughtsman, painter, novelist, actor, costume designer and playwright. He was born in London but grew up in South Africa following a family move when he was five years old. He returned to London in July 1926 after spending two years as a…
Livio Apolloni (1904 – 1976) was an Italian illustrator, caricaturist and painter. Very little information is available about his life and career. He is mainly known for his travel posters of the Italian lakes in the 1920s and for his contributions to the satirical magazine Il Travaso delle Idee.In the…