tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701969497419397329.post2269643952899146130..comments2023-08-09T02:31:51.387-07:00Comments on Enoch Bolles: Model BehaviorBolles Fan 1http://www.blogger.com/profile/15269014178929622136noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701969497419397329.post-9624901120426945212011-10-31T18:14:37.022-07:002011-10-31T18:14:37.022-07:00Thanks for your insightful comments and great link...Thanks for your insightful comments and great links, Beau. Obviously there's more material here to delve into.Jack Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06003755708951409832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701969497419397329.post-21615924254231457362011-10-26T09:19:53.803-07:002011-10-26T09:19:53.803-07:00An excellent post, as ever, Jack. I enjoy seeing ...An excellent post, as ever, Jack. I enjoy seeing the thoughts from artists on their models, an interesting relationship, for certain. As the quotes indicate, it's a professional, workaday situation for the artist and model but borderline scandalous in the public imagination. I'm reminded by the excellent Bolles' cover of a golden age comic cover from Jack Kirby depicting a similar scene:<br /><br />http://www.comics.org/issue/6154/cover/4/<br /><br />There's at least one other comics cover of that era with the same situation, but I couldn't track it down.<br /><br />As for the speculation about the editor asking Bolles to tone down the nudity, you might be right. I'd guess there was always a push or pull around that as the editor either wanted a little more hot-cha from the cover artist or a little less. I do like the final product more, but the sketch rendition certainly adds to the drama of the girlfriend at the door. You can only imagine that this might have happened a time or two if Bolles' wife ever came into the city.<br /><br />And maybe to put the nudity censorship into context, it was the very next issue of Snappy Stories that was to be banned in Massachusetts! Perhaps it was the Adam and Eve connotation that caused the stir, as this cover doesn't seem out of line with the others of the period (DeAlton Valentine is the artist, scan is from Doug Ellis' landmark Uncovered: The Hidden Art of the Girlie Pulps):<br /><br />http://i40.tinypic.com/107pgtx.jpg<br /><br />As a side note, I've always wanted to see the Frank Armer pulp Artists and Models Stories, scarce and highly sought-out exactly because of this intriguing relationship...<br /><br />http://www.philsp.com/data/data028.html#ARTISTSANDMODELSSTORIESdarwinationhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01601838758695937728noreply@blogger.com