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One of the most influential peril and bondage artists in history was a woman. And until recently, I'd never heard of her. Her name was Margaret Brundage, and she was a pulp artist, mainly known for her cover art for Weird Tales. From 1932 to 1945, she painted 66 covers for the pulp magazine, including a stretch of 39 straight issues from 1933 to 1936. I ran across her while looking for art for my Fetish Art Tarot series, and found this for The Magician, and I thought, who is this Margaret Brundage, and why have I never heard of her? She was born in 1900 in Chicago and was a high school classmate of Walt Disney. ("I finished; he didn't," she later remarked. Burn!) You can read more about her life and career on her Wikipedia page , on Pulp Artists, and at Illustration History. There's interesting stuff on Chicagology about her involvement with the Wobblies and the Dil(l) Pickle Club. Oh, and here's an article from the Atlantic and another from Playboy. Most of the art I'm

Ask anyone in our niche who the great bondage artists of the 20th Century are and you'll hear the same names -- Bishop, Bilbrew, Stanton, Jim, Alazar, Willie. But one artist doesn't get his due, in my opinion: Leone Frollo. Leone Frollo (1931-2018) was an Italian comic book artist. "From the late 1960s to the mid-1980s, he illustrated numerous popular series in several genres, like history, fantasy, horror, but mostly eroticism." His works are beautifully created with pencils, watercolors and pastels. His bondage works often feature elegant women dressed in styles from the 20s and 30s. One of his frequent subjects is Bettie Page. (Is there a bondage artist who hasn't done a Bettie Page tribute at some point?) Here's a selection of some of his portraits of Bettie that I've collected from various sources. (A couple of these are from auction sites, and as far as I know aren't uploaded anywhere else.) Let's start with a few slices of cheesecake, shall we? How about some gorgeous