![OVERDUE BIL'](/images/headline/5985.png) Better late than never is our motto around here. ![](/images/postimg/overdue_bil'_01.jpg)
We're finally getting back to paperback artist Gene Bilbrew, whose odd style, with its scantily clad women and their muscular butts has become collectible in recent years. We didn't get it at first, but like a lot of art, once you're exposed to it regularly you begin to appreciate its unique qualities. There's clear intent in Bilbrew's work, a deliberate attempt to approach illustration from a different angle, and we've grown to understand that his cartoonish, chaotic, often humorous, and often bondage themed aesthetic is purposeful. In fact, his imagery has become so intertwined with the bdsm scene that in 2019 the National Leather Association International established an award named after Bilbrew for creators of animated erotic art. While it's not exactly a Pulitzer Prize, the point is that Bilbrew's bizarre visions keep gaining wider acceptance. So for that reason we've put together another group of his paperback fronts. You can see more of them here, here, and here, and you can see a few rare oddities here, here, and here. ![](/images/postimg/overdue_bil'_02.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/overdue_bil'_03.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/overdue_bil'_04.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/overdue_bil'_05.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/overdue_bil'_06.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/overdue_bil'_07.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/overdue_bil'_08.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/overdue_bil'_09.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/overdue_bil'_10.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/overdue_bil'_11.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/overdue_bil'_12.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/overdue_bil'_13.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/overdue_bil'_14.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/overdue_bil'_15.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/overdue_bil'_16.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/overdue_bil'_17.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/overdue_bil'_18.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/overdue_bil'_19.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/overdue_bil'_20.jpg)
![A SIGHT FOR FOUR EYES](/images/headline/4075.png) Grrrr... That shameless slut. If I hadn't seen her with my own two eyes—and the other two eyes on my chest—I would never have believed it. ![](/images/postimg/a_sight_for_four_eyes.jpg)
There's nothing quite like carny pulp, and this one has one of the better tag lines in sleaze history. The basic idea here is innocent Curtis Bryan joins a carnival only to find it a hotbed of sex, sin, and spouse swapping peopled by lesbian trapeze artists, a sex freak equestrienne, and more. Pretty soon he's in danger of being corrupted by all the crazy goings-on. The tagline: Enter normal... exit abnormal... That is inspired. The artwork is inspired too. It's by the uniquely great Eric Stanton, and the copyright is 1965.
![FOR WORSE](/images/headline/3431.png) All that cutesy lovey-dovey stuff was the single me. Now that we're married let me introduce you to the real me. ![](/images/postimg/for_worse.jpg)
Above, the cover of New Bride by Glenn Allison, written for First Niter and published in 1960. The art is by Eric Stanton, formerly obscure, but in the midst of a renaissance these last several years, and deservedly so. Check some of his astonishing pieces here.
![PLEASURE DOING BUSINESS](/images/headline/3133.png) This is the pleasure department, sir. Pain was consolidated here after last month’s corporate downsizing. ![](/images/postimg/pleasure_doing_business.jpg)
More fun sleaze today, a cover for Myron Kosloff’s 1964 opus Dial “P” for Pleasure, from First Niter, a subsidiary of Connoisseur Publications, with Eric Stanton cover art. You get sexual hijinks at the Hotel Park-Ritz, with swapping, bondage, lesbianism, and all the other fun things in life. This was, if you can believe, made into a porn movie of the same name in 1978 starring Susan Wong and Sharon Mitchell.
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The headlines that mattered yesteryear.
2003—Hope Dies
Film legend Bob Hope dies of pneumonia two months after celebrating his 100th birthday. 1945—Churchill Given the Sack
In spite of admiring Winston Churchill as a great wartime leader, Britons elect
Clement Attlee the nation's new prime minister in a sweeping victory for the Labour Party over the Conservatives. 1952—Evita Peron Dies
Eva Duarte de Peron, aka Evita, wife of the president of the Argentine Republic, dies from cancer at age 33. Evita had brought the working classes into a position of political power never witnessed before, but was hated by the nation's powerful military class. She is lain to rest in Milan, Italy in a secret grave under a nun's name, but is eventually returned to Argentina for reburial beside her husband in 1974. 1943—Mussolini Calls It Quits
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini steps down as head of the armed forces and the government. It soon becomes clear that Il Duce did not relinquish power voluntarily, but was forced to resign after former Fascist colleagues turned against him. He is later installed by Germany as leader of the Italian Social Republic in the north of the country, but is killed by partisans in 1945.
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