Bad Girl Art comic books issue 1

By Jay Geerdes. 12 pages. B/W.

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1st printing.

Acclaimed Brazilian artist, Marcelo Trom's Bad/Good girl art is collected in this color book for the first time! Featuring comic covers, pinups, commissions of pop characters and original behind the scene comics creations illustrated only the way Trom could.

Hardcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 72 pages, full color. Mature Readers

Cover price $39.95.

1st printing.

Acclaimed Brazilian artist, Marcelo Trom's Bad/Good girl art is collected in this color book for the first time! Featuring comic covers, pinups, commissions of pop characters and original behind the scene comics creations illustrated only the way Trom could.

Softcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 72 pages, full color. Mature Readers

Cover price $19.95.

1st printing. Maly Siri's Pin-up Art Good Girls / Bad Girls raises two themes. On one side, the "Good Girls": the damsels with soft skin powdering their faces in front of the mirror, the Tahitian girls with enchanting smiles and the brave soldiers. Their charm is due to their sparkling characters and apparent candor. And on the other side, the "Bad Girls": the rouged vamps with sensuous looks, the spies, the melancholic blues singers and other misfits. This book is a rich and delicious homage inspired by the iconography of the 1930's to 50's, a concentrate of pure glamour, with a preface by Chantal Thomass. Hardcover, 10-in. x 12-in., 128 pages, full color. Cover price $29.95.

1st printing. Text by Caitlin McGurk. Art and cover by Barbara Shermund. This gorgeous art book celebrates the work and legacy of Barbara Shermund, one of the first female cartoonists for humor and lifestyle magazines in the United States, including The New Yorker and Esquire. Tell Me a Story Where the Bad Girl Wins doubles as an official biography and coffee table art collection honoring the life and art of pioneering cartoonist Barbara Shermund, an unheralded early master of magazine cartooning whose career spanned the heyday of American magazines from the 1920s-1960s. Her sharp wit and loose style boldly tapped the zeitgeist of first-wave feminism with vivid characters that were alive and astute. Shermund's women spoke their minds about sex, marriage, and society; smoked cigarettes and drank; and poked fun at everything in an era when it was not common to see young women doing so. Shermund left behind a body of work that was ahead of its time and remains insightful, witty, relevant, and contemporary. As one of the first women cartoonists to work for The New Yorker the year of its launch in 1925, she created nine covers and more than 600 cartoons for the magazine, in addition to countless spot illustrations, giving the nascent publication its unique visual brand. Shermund later became a mainstay at Esquire; contributed to Life, Colliers, Judge, and more; had a syndicated newspaper cartoon published by King Features; and illustrated a variety of books. In 1950, Shermund was among the first three women to be accepted as a member of the male-dominated National Cartoonist Society. A compelling facet of Shermund's work is her frequent nods to queer audiences, which appeared in her work more than that of any of her contemporary New Yorker cartoonists. There are indications in her personal files that she also may have been queer, including love letters and other personal archives that McGurk has unearthed. Readers will discover Shermund's unique and vibrant life and art and gain an understanding of how women's place in the history of cartooning has been controlled and sublimated by greater societal and cultural allowances. Through close readings, archival research, reproductions of original art, correspondence and photographs, this volume uncovers and celebrates a trailblazing female magazine cartoonist, and rightfully places her in the canon of cartoon art history. Hardcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 288 pages, full color. Cover price $45.00.

1st printing. A Collection of Bad Girl Art. Comics by female creators of the alt-comix and underground scene. Includes stories and art by Phoebe Gloeckner, Dori Seda, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Carel Moiseiwitsch, Diane Noomin, Krystine Kryttre, Leslie Sternbergh, M.K. Brown, Mary Fleener, Carol Lay, Penny Moran Van Horn, Caryn Leschen, Carol Tyler, and Julie Doucet. Much of the material previously appeared in the likes of Weirdo, Arcade, Wimmens Comix and National Lampoon. Edited by Noomin. Mature readers. Black and white; 260 pages. Cover price $14.95. Cover price $14.95.