1 album/7 artworks – For this artist I was unable to find anything. He illustrated the book The Strap Returns, published in 1934 by Gargoyle Press.
Adolfo Mariño Ruiz (1912 – ?), also known as simply Ruiz, was born in Tampico. He studied art and architecture and drew his first comics and cartoons in 1935 for Mujeres y Deportes (sports cartoons) and Paquito (‘Charros del Bajío’). In the following year, he was present in Paquín with…
In the smoky backrooms of late-1960s Paris, where censorship loosened and forbidden classics resurfaced, Yves Yorel emerged as a spectral talent. Nothing is known of the artist, no interviews, no biography, not even a whisper of a real name. Yorel exists solely through ink and desire, a pseudonym etched into…
While updating the Swiss Jim page, I uncovered an album that finally settled a lingering doubt about a handful of BDSM pieces I’d posted months earlier: works that, at the time, floated anonymously in the ether. The Unnamed Originals The “Carlo” Echo The Parallel Discovery I recalled posting two nearly identical…