1 album/6 artworks – The name of this artist appears as one of the illustrators for Cruelle Despote, published in 1930. Some artworks from this book were done by Wighead and by E. Klem and others by Vera. The artworks can be seen in the album below.
P. Fusty was a spanking artist who illustrated Le Tour d’Europe d’un Flagellant by Lord Birchisgood (1909). In the BNF library’s entry for this book, the illustrator’s name is misspelled P. Tiusty. This is definitely an error. P. Fusty is the correct name – a pseudonym, it seems; the French…
In 1981, the erotic album Punitions et Dressage was published by Jet Productions (Bagnolet). Both the text and the illustrations are credited to Jack Rhodes. Very little is known about the artist. No biographical details, photographs, or confirmed real name have surfaced, and “Jack Rhodes” is almost certainly a pseudonym. Attempts to uncover…
The French cartoonist Roger Testu (1913 – 2008), better known as Tetsu, started his career as a painter and in the 1950s started drawing cartoons, while continuing to paint. His first cartoon was published in Noir et Blanc in 1951, and he worked extensively for magazines including Le Figaro, France…
The artist using the name Gigi Amaldi was most likely an Italiant immigrant who moved to Argentina around 1940. There are nearly no artworks known from this artist, but there is this mysterious album titled La Verdadera Historia de la Humanidad. It shows art created somewhere between the 1930/40’s. In…
Elie Georges Marie Villa (1883 – 1965) was born in Montmédy, the Meuse, Lorraine, France on January 24, 1883. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Francais. Vila was a prolific painter, engraver, lithographer, poster designer, and illustrator of political and…
Joe Shuster (1914 – 1992) was born in Toronto, Canada. At the age of nine, his family moved to Cleveland, Ohio where he would later meet Jerome Siegel, with whom he would become a creative partner. Siegel and Shuster created a hero character which later became famous as Superman. The…