Ely Costes
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Ely Costes

Ely Costes is a artist who illustrated French spanking novels in the 1930s. Jéo is probably a pseudonym of the same artist.Books (co) illustrated by this artist: Miss Cravache ou Les Vierges esclaves,  1930 (second edition in 1932) Dressage, 1931 Bagne de Femmes, 1931 (cover was done by Ely Costes, other…

Paul Kamm
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Paul Kamm

~ 1891 – After 1935 Born in Berlin, Germany, he was a visionary illustrator and artist whose provocative works captured the underground allure of FemDom and BDSM themes during the Weimar era. Also known by his birth name Paul Klamm and the enigmatic pseudonym  C. Soulier, Kamm’s oeuvre,…

Hageby
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Hageby

~ Date of birth unknown I was unable to find out anything at all about the artist Hageby other then the fact he (or she?) illustrated the book Au Royame du Fouet (ou Les Maîtresses impitoyables: grand roman de moeurs Masochistes) published in 1937 and…

René Giffey
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René Giffey

~ 1884 – 1965 Rene was a French cartoonist, illustrator of books and magazines and comic book writer. His drawings appeared in magazines and girl , Chrissy , The Epatant , The Little Illustrated , Ace , Bold! and Junior .His career as a cartoonist…

John Willie
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John Willie

~ 1902 – 1962 John Alexander Scott Couts was born in Singapore and grew up in England.In the mid-1930s, he began working for a Sydney-based fetish club as an illustrator and photographer; around this time he began a relationship with Holly Faram, one of his…