Swipes!

(Bullwinkle Voice) Hello, Culture Lovers!

In comic art, a "swipe"  is a drawing that has been directly copied from another (and usually better) artist and presented as one's own.  That's different from a "tribute" or "pastiche."  "Swipes" were pretty common practice in the 30's, when comic books were new, but a surprising amount of it still goes on today!

Now, if I were to present this:

a lot of people would recognize it as a famous bit of "Flash Gordon" work by Alex Raymond.

But, a lot of people wouldn't, and would say, "Dayam, that Wolfie can draw!"  

Thank you, thank you.

An awful lot of people have swiped Alex Raymond's work, because he was a superior artist and frequently used live models.  

He even gave lessons on drawing Nekkid Girls in Proper Perspective.

Another guy whose work was lovingly copied to save time and get a nice paycheck was Hal Foster, whose "Prince Valiant" was royal comic strip art.

Hal also did the "Tarzan" newspaper strip for a while in the 30's.

A fellow named Bob Kane was a big admirer.

That final dramatic panel, and just about every other panel in the origin story featured in "Batman" #1 in 1940, was a Swipe!

(Bob earned a very bad reputation as a Pilferer, of both art and credit.  Hardly any of the "Batman" artwork with the big "BOB KANE" signature box through the years was his, and almost all of the writing was done by Bob's fairly silent partner, and Batman's unsung co-creator, Bill Finger.  But I digress.)   

Now, everybody learns by copying at first.  This "Hawkman" page from "Flash Comics" #5 in 1940 is full of "Flash Gordon" swipes by artist Sheldon Moldoff.  As a matter of fact, the first artist for this feature, Dennis Neville, got the look for his hero from the Hawkmen in "Flash Gordon."

The third artist for "Hawkman"  was a young fellow named Joe Kubert, who not only became one of the greats with features like "Sergeant Rock" and a revised "Hawkman," but who began the Kubert School for Cartooning and Graphic Arts.

Kubert told his students that when you copy another artist, you will exaggerate his exaggerations, especially if it turns out you're copying someone else's copy, and the result will be severe and probably unattractive distortion.  He recommended lots of drawing from life, or at least using photographs.  

Say, I wonder how many pole-vaulters, runners, skating stars and boxers from the newspapers and magazines have wound up with Crime Fighting Doppelgangers in the funny books?

(Zooming off)

(Putting Evil Doers In Place)

Okay, now-- remember that Dick Williams magazine illustration? 

Boom, of "OTKatie" fame, pointed out IN THIS POST at "The Chicago Spanking Review" forum the similarity between it and this poster for a 1947 movie with Fred MacMurray and Paulette Goddard called "Suddenly Last Spring!"  Have a look!

The movie is a wacky post-war will-they-divorce-or-get-back-together romantic comedy and has no actual spankage.  But what a dandy Publicity Shot!!  

(Spanking Makes Happy Couples.)

Hey, come to think of it, those two have some other Movie Spanking to their credit! 

Paulette got an on-screen spanking from Ray Milland in "Reap The Wild Wind!"

("Mr. DeMille, can we please do that scene again?  Thaaaaank you!!")

John Wayne was in that picture, too, if ya wanna play "Six Degrees of Spanking Separation."

In the 1944 movie "And The Angels Sing," Fred MacMurray and his pals spank the Angel Sisters-- that is, Dorothy Lamour, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn and Mimi Chandler!   I've been fighting with Blogger to embed Chross's YouTube clip here, but the smurf-smurfin' thing will not cooperate, so you'll have to click on the blue letters here to see 

THE CLIP!

Anyway, what do you think?  Dick Williams was a fine artist, so did he "merely" use Fred and Paulette as "models," with some kind of permission, or did he actually "swipe" that publicity shot?  Maybe such things were considered "public domain?"  It would help if we knew from whence came the illustration!

Well, The World May Never Know.  But at least in this post I got to do something with / to that Flash Gordon pic that's been screaming to me for Spanking Reinterpretation for forty-two years.

Another Smurfin' Wolfie Tribute!

Presenting a Peyo Parody for your peekin' pleasure! 

(Credit where credit is due-- Larken came up with the Color Smurfle.  She says that's what happens when a blue bottom gets reddened! I hadn't thought of that, but decided it must be true and fixed my cartoon accordingly.) 

But, wait!  That's not all!  You also get in this entry, at no additional charge, the link to Phil's spankin' new blog, OVERBARREL'S SPANKING TOONS!  Treats await you when you click on those blue letters like THIS: 

Phil's busy moving all of his Poser Work away from the Yahiccup Groups into Blogger where it is so much easier for everyone to see and enjoy,  so go have a look!

Oh, and have you seen the latest free samples at "DISCIPLINE & DESIRE?"

That's worth a click, too!

Sunday Funday!

Our weekend entertainment continues with a gorgeous painting by DICK WILLIAMS that I've never seen before!  

Apparently this was an illustration for a magazine story.  I don't know what story in which magazine, or exactly when it appeared, but I bet it beat the hell outta that recent Gray Book that's been getting so much damned attention.  In fact, why the authors at "DISCIPLINE & DESIRE," who write much better and much hornier tales, don't get some of that attention is beyond me.  But I digress.

This picture really appeals to me, because this couple obviously loves to read.

Oh, wait!!  I know Who that fellow is!!

"I wear a bow tie now.  Bow ties are cool."

Saturday Morning WolfieToon!!

You got your bowl of cereal, right?

Saturday Night Edit!

Lovely Larken says I should explain this for much younger women who did not watch Boy Shows, and for people from out of town, like Australia.

"Space Ghost" was a Saturday Morning action-adventure cartoon show from Hanna-Barbera (The makers of "The Flintstones," "Scooby Doo,"  "Yogi Bear," etc. etc. etc.) that began in 1966 to capitalize on "Batmania."  It combined Super Heroes, Outer Space (complete with Spaceships!), Ghosts, and Things Blowing Up.  How could that NOT be Really Cool?!  At least for the ten-year-old boys like I was and am.

Space Ghost and his two adopted teen-age assistants, the twins Jace and Jan, and their pet monkey Blip, patrolled the Galaxy in the Phantom Cruiser, keeping renegade robots, lava monsters and evil world-conquerors in line.  They could all become invisible, fly with power packs, and Space Ghost had power bands that shot out a variety of power rays.

The introduction looked like this!

Much, much later the Cartoon Network did a snarky talk show parody of snarky talk shows called "Space Ghost Coast To Coast," which I didn't usually care for.  It had its moments of absurd humor, but would they have done that to Zorro, the Lone Ranger, Superman or Batman?  I don't think so.

OK, NOW ya know!

Asking For It

It has been said that if a woman has to ask for attention and affection, her man is not doing his job.

There is, however, often communication confusion between the sexes.  Men are generally straightforward (which is not to say aggravatingly obtuse) and women are generally subtle and complex (which is not to say tortuously murky.)

The late Fr. Andrew Greeley often said in his novels that men must learn "that when a woman says no, it means no, unless it means yes or maybe." 

What I hope you'll take away from this, men, is that it is worth the effort to try to read all the signals to see what your woman is really saying, and women, please try to be as direct as possible with us.  

For example, if you feel inclined to a good spanking, but are disinclined to say aloud, "Honey would you please spank my little bottom until the glow can light up the hallway?" you can give us a visual clue.  Maybe like this: 

This girl is asking for it, with some degree of subtlety.

This girl is asking for it with a lot less subtlety: 

And this woman is using no subtlety whatsoever.

And of course, sometimes your fella will tell you that it's time for a butt whapping. 

The end result is that everyone will be happy with clear communication..

Happy Nude Rear!!

May 2014 bring you more joy than grief.

There is Nakedity in this WolfieToon.

Many Thanks To Bonnie-- and Aloha!

I just found out, while doing some Blogosphere catch-up,  that Bonnie of "My Bottom Smarts" has decided to retire!  She says all is well, but "Eight Is Enough."  I urge you to drop by to give her your well-wishes!

Not only has Bonnie done some of the very best, sexiest, funniest, most insightful entries examining-- as they say-- "This Thing We Do," but has given invaluable blogging tips to all of us newcomers, and called attention to every new topical effort she found!

She made Lurking acceptable and made "Lurkers" feel free and easy to come out once a year to say "Hi!"  By the way, HERMIONE says she'll take over the "brunches" and hosting the "Love Our Lurkers" event!

But most importantly, Bonnie has been one of the primary people around to let anxious and lonely women-- and men-- who wondered if they were twisted and weird for being aroused by spanking or being spanked know that they, in fact, were not, and that there were any number of decent, intelligent, caring and funny people just like them.  

For all of that, Bonnie, many thanks.  And thanks also for the cutest little round-jean-bottom portrait-avatar anywhere on the web!

Love from Wolfie!

"Werewolf?!" "There! THERE Wolf!"

"DISCIPLINE & DESIRE" editor Nattie Jones wanted me to share this particular WolfieToon with you here because, for technical and inexplicable reasons, it hadda come off our FREE PAGE.  

Now, if you find this cartoon oddly unseasonal,  bear in mind that James Whale's "Frankenstein," with Colin Clive, Boris Karloff and company, was the hit of 1931's Christmas season!  And I'll have a New Year's Post here soon!  Behold:

And, just for grins, here are some of the preliminary sketches for this cartoon as I was groping toward the proper staging and look to "sell" Larken's gag!

 

Holiday Greetings!

'Twas the night before Christmas,

and look at that moon!

Not a creature was stirring,

they didn't have spoons!

That is a detail from the WolfieToon this week at "DISCIPLINE & DESIRE!"

Here is a peek at the whole thing and at one of the previous 'toons, which I hope will entice and not annoy.

If it does irritate, you can make this your return greeting:

Which is good for anyone tired of the strained hubbub that began in October, anyway.

But maybe you'll find something really cool under the tree, like--

"Holy Sh*t!  What ARE they thinking?!"

OK, how about:

In any case, I hope your joys and happy memories will always outweigh your grief.

Santa Spankings!

                                                                               

That's the Coca-Cola Santa Claus that painter Haddon Sundblom began doing for the company's ads in the '30s!  Notice his left hand:  he's about to go drive a team of reindeer or perhaps query Mrs. Santa about this pose she did for Hugh Hefner, also painted by Mr. Sundblom. 

It had never occurred to me that Santa Claus could be a viable Spanking Fantasy Figure.  I don't know why;  from my youth I'd done cartoons with Papa Bear and Goldilocks.  But that was for my snickers, drawing Goldie's knickers, and it didn't seem likely to me that any woman might really get squirmy thinking about a Bear bottom spanking.  But I've been wrong before.

So I asked my dear friend Springrose about this Swats from Santa Business, to get the Female Perspective, and she replied, "Oh, yeah-- that works!"

Now, here is St Nick from the illustration T.C. Boyd did for the 1848 edition of "A Visit From St. Nicholas." (AKA "The Night Before Christmas.")    You could well imagine this particular jolly old elf springing out of the fireplace to correct wayward Imps! 

And then he and his miniature reindeer would proceed to the next home to deliver sweet rewards and stinging spanks, which sometimes are the same thing.

So that's a vision of Santa thirteen years before the Civil War began.  Sometime toward the end of that horrible event, a famous political cartoonist named Thomas Nast-- creator, by the way, of the Republican Elephant and Democratic Donkey!--   began drawing what evolved into our modern notion of Santa.  This guy usually wore a furry set of long johns.

There he is observing Female Miscreants Performing Mischief and planning accordingly.

So I suppose a jolly, feisty, fun-loving Father figure might indeed feed feverish female fantasies!  In fact, if you Yahoo (or follow the crowd and Google) "Santa Spanking," or click on these blue letters to view CHROSS'S CHRISTMAS GALLERY (which includes some WolfieToons!) you'll see how popular the notion of Spankings by Santa is, proving Springrose is absolutely correct.  Always listen to Springrose.

  

Last year I posted some Santa Fantasy links and pictures that you can see RAT CHEER , so this time I thought we'd play a game!  Match the WolfieToon Santa Face with the Imp Bottom!  These are, of course, cartoons featured at "DISCIPLINE & DESIRE!"

That's pretty easy, but if you want, I can post the answers later! 

Happy Ho-Ho Days!