The Glamour Girls of Bill Ward - Softcover

Bill Ward

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ISBN 10: 1560978465 ISBN 13: 9781560978466

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books, 2007

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by Bill Ward
Renowned pin-up artist Bill Ward gets the full coffee table treatment in this lavish, oversized, full-color paperback edition of the acclaimed 2003 hardcover that features Ward's most polished, fully-realized portraits of the 1950s. This volume features the best of Ward's Humorama work, including a selection of Ward's infamous telephone girls.

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About the Author:

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.

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Ward's drawings were provocative and alluring, the subjects exploiting power over men that their sexuality granted. -- The New York Times

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