The Classic Pin-Up Art of Jack Cole - Softcover

Chun, Alex

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9781606992845: The Classic Pin-Up Art of Jack Cole

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1606992848 ISBN 13: 9781606992845

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books, 2010

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Jack Cole has been justly celebrated as the creator of Plastic Man and an innovative comic-book artist of the 1940s (especially in Art Spiegelman and Chip Kidd's Jack Cole and Plastic Man: Forms Stretched To Their Limits). However, after finishing his 14-year run on the title, he found himself looking for something new and decided to develop his craft at single panel “gag” cartoons, which led work for the Humorama line of “girls and gags” magazines. His ability to render the female form was already without peer, and exquisite line drawings and a mastery of ink-wash soon appeared. The Classic Pin-Up Art of Jack Cole, now in softcover, collects the rare '50s pin-ups that led to the artist's gig as Playboy's marquee cartoonist. Along with a foreword by editor Alex Chun, this volume (originally released in a now out-of-print hardcover edition that fetches high prices in the secondhand market) collects the best of these hidden gems, including several shot from Cole's stunning original art. Most of these drawings had not seen print elsewhere since their original publication.

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About the Author:

Jack Cole was born in 1914 and died in 1958.

Alex Chun is a longtime journalist living in Los Angeles. A former staff writer for the Los Angeles Daily Journal, he is currently a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times where he covers pop-culture. He also edits a series of art books for Fantagraphics. In his spare time, he collects original cartoon pin-up art and maintains the website www.pinupcartoongallery.com. His books include The Pin-Up Art of Dan DeCarlo (two volumes), The Pin-Up Art of Bill Wenzel, The Pin-up Art of Bill Ward, The Glamor Girls of Don Flowers, The Glamour Girls of Bill Ward, Classic Pin-Up Art of Jack Cole, and The Pin-Up Art of Humorama.

Review:

“Classic pin-ups from a giant of the comics field.... Jack Cole was a masterful comic book artist who helped define the golden age of his art form.”
- The Village Voice

“The 100 pages’ worth of cartoons of comely, curvy cuties come culled from low-rent men’s digest magazines of the 1940s and 1950s ― now-forgotten rags with happy-go-lucky names like Romp, Joker and Laugh Riot. But Cole’s contributions are visually indelible.”
- Rod Lott, Bookgasm

“The top pin-up cartoonist of his generation.”
- Forum

“A saucy joy.”
- The List

“Cole was a leading figure of mid-20th-century popular culture.”
- Terry England

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