As the fourth of July neared my excitement grew. What a theme for a post! It was just a matter of finding the perfect patriotic pin-up. Wit...

Watch it with that axe! This cover from the April 1935 cover of Spicy Stories has a lot going on but it's her expression that makes th...

From time to time I'll get a request to ID a a pinup as a Bolles girl or not. Having seen scores of his magazine covers, advertising il...

Hands and feet, the troublesome book ends for many illustrators. They so vexed some artists that they went to extremes to hide them. The ac...

Sorry for this visual contrivance but I've long pondered whether Bolles created poses from letters of the alphabet, or some related sor...

Bolles wasn't much for tricky or complex compositions, and my guess was that if he was offered a job that required a crowd scene or a b...

Yes, it really is Wig Out day, whatever that means, and our man Bolles has come through once again. Gay Parisienne featured a lot of curi...