tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701969497419397329.post8385304137081329323..comments2023-08-09T02:31:51.387-07:00Comments on Enoch Bolles: Nurse Day Today!!Bolles Fan 1http://www.blogger.com/profile/15269014178929622136noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701969497419397329.post-10927091175136475112009-05-16T16:17:00.000-07:002009-05-16T16:17:00.000-07:00I came across a page in a wartime issue of Leslie'...I came across a page in a wartime issue of Leslie's today that reminded me of this post re: Flagg's penchant for self-promotion<br /><br />http://i39.tinypic.com/11livck.jpg<br /><br />Apparently Leslie's got some good mileage from the popularity of Flagg's images as well. I've always found the image in the upper right of Germany as thuggish brute disturbing but I guess it's easy to say that with the distance of years.<br /><br />I'd never considered the lack of pin-up nurses on pulp covers before, but it's very surprising to the modern man. Even the nurses in these WWI posters have a sort of angelic quality to them. Perhaps the more overtly sexual image of the naughty nurse is a fairly recent construction...darwinationhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01601838758695937728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701969497419397329.post-55600465335916967712009-05-07T18:50:00.000-07:002009-05-07T18:50:00.000-07:00Nice post Jack. You'd think the buxom nurse hover...Nice post Jack. You'd think the buxom nurse hovering over the man-on-the-mend would have made for a more popular pin-up art scene but I can't think of any either!Alan Wrobelnoreply@blogger.com