Jim Silke Sketchbook

Jim Silke Sketchbook
Author: Jim Silke
Publisher: Strange Chemistry
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-11
Genre: Pinup art
ISBN: 9781933865461

A collection of previously unpublished studio drawings and paintings by the master of the pinup: Jim Silke. All the artworks are meticulously reproduced from the original artwork and offer a beautiful browsing experience as the soft rich charcoals of voluptuous nudes give way to an angular pencil study of a dashing hero. Each of these unseen drawings is accompanied by a descriptive caption.

Nude: The Job of Figure Drawing

Nude: The Job of Figure Drawing
Author: Jim Silke
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-06-21
Genre: Art
ISBN: 159582409X

In the world of contemporary pin-up art, few artists can capture the sexy essence of a gorgeous woman as well and as wonderfully as Jim Silke. For years Silke's signature luscious paintings and sensuous drawings have delighted the hearts and eyes of everyone who appreciates the beauty and grace of the female form, as portrayed in his other bestselling art books, including Bettie Page, Queen of Hearts and Pin-Up: The Illegitimate Art. This time, the pin-up master strips his subjects of dress and other distractions to better reveal the delicious details that are usually hidden from admiring eyes. And, as fans have come to expect from the gentleman genius behind the brush, Silke adorns his intoxicating imagery with sage insight and cunning wit, as he recounts his long and exceedingly happy career flirting with fine art and foxy women.

Rascals in Paradise

Rascals in Paradise
Author: Jim Silke
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1996-05-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9781569711415

Spicy Saunders is a teen-age bombshell with lots of attitude and very little clothing! She's teamed with a pair of over-the-hill Soldiers of Fortune to fulfill a deathbed vow to her father to find the mysterious River of the Arrow. To do that, they must overcome acts of angry gods, animal magnetism, and men and women of bad intentions!

The Art of Richard Thompson

The Art of Richard Thompson
Author: Bill Watterson
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2014-11-25
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1449453465

Richard Thompson is renowned among cartoonists as an "artist's" cartoonist. Little known to all but those close to him is the extent of his art talent. This is the book that will enlighten the rest of us and delight us with the sheer beauty of his work. Divided into six sections, each beginning with an introductory conversation between Thompson and six well-known peers, including Bill Watterson, the book will present Thompson's illustration work, caricatures, and his creation, Richard's Poor Almanack. Each section is highly illustrated, many works in color, most of them large and printed one-to-a-page. The diversity of work will help cast a wider net, well beyond Cul de Sac fans.

Jungle Girls

Jungle Girls
Author: Jim Silke
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-10
Genre: Erotic art
ISBN: 9781933865324

These are the most fabulous, provocative creatures in the world of fiction, from H. Rider Haggard's She to Edgar Rice Burroughs' Jane, Hedy Lamarr's Tonedeleyo and the modern, bold, daring and dangerous beauties that prowl Silke's imagination. They're all here, the Jungle Goddesses, Queens and Slaves as well as their sisters in that happy madness of exotic femme fatales, Tropic Tramps, Dragon Ladies, Harem Damsels and semi-clad Barbarians. It's not a history, but a celebration of that impossible, loony, glorious nonsense that Silke somehow finds essential.

Secret Sneyd: The Unpublished Cartoons of Doug Sneyd

Secret Sneyd: The Unpublished Cartoons of Doug Sneyd
Author: Doug Sneyd
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2017-05-31
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1506705189

Veteran artist Doug Sneyd presents a collection of unpublished cartoon concepts created throughout his career with Playboy magazine. This novelty book is packed from end to end with one-liners and pretty girls--funny, charming, and risqué jokes, each one full of all the life and expression that only a master artist can impart with a few strokes of the pen and brush! For over fifty years Doug Sneyd has been a regular contributor to Playboy, and for every cartoon published in the magazine, he created several more illustrated concepts with gag lines written by himself or by his own stable of witty writers. Collected here are over 250 of the very finest, funniest, and most clever previously unpublished gags, chosen from thousands submitted to Playboy since the early 1960s.

Girl Crazy

Girl Crazy
Author: Gilbert Hernandez
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2016-01-19
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1616558415

Kitten, Maribel, and Gaby are three very different childhood friends about to celebrate their sixteenth birthdays, which all happen to fall on the same day. But someone's missing--their fourth friend, Una, who's imprisoned in Tijuana. So the trio set out to give Una the ultimate birthday gift--freedom--even if it means taking on an entire city! Prepare yourself for some sweet sixteen super-action, madcap plot twists, identity crises aplenty, and--of course--gorgeous girls galore! You'll go crazy over this lighthearted, rowdy, and sexy romp from Pen Center USA Award winner Gilbert Hernandez!

Bettie Page Rules!

Bettie Page Rules!
Author: Jim Silke
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Celebrities
ISBN: 9781593077563

If ever there were reason to believe in love at first sight, that reason would be Bettie Page. From the moment the first pin-ups of Bettie appeared, the world fell in love. Even now, a half-century after those first pictures were published, men desire her, women emulate her and more and more people all over the world adore her. What did Bettie offer the camera that the other, more celebrated beauties of her time including Marilyn, Brigitte and Sophia did not? Legendary pinup artist and entertainment historian Jim Silke dives into these tempting waters and offers his first-hand account of life behind the lens of the '50s pinup scene with his freshest book to date, Bettie Page Rules! Combining fun and informative writing with his singular insight into the world of gorgeous dames, Silke delivers a tantalizing pictoral portrait of all the 1950s bombshells. But that s just the tip of the cheesecake!"

The Art of Doug Sneyd

The Art of Doug Sneyd
Author: Doug Sneyd
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Sex
ISBN: 9781595827258

An artist for Playboy magazine since the early 1960s, Doug Sneyd's scintillating cartoon works are now collected in this stunning art book. Featuring the most lush, sumptuous, striking, and hilarious of Doug's full-page cartoons, readers will be charmed with the lovely scantily (and even non-) clad "Sneyd" girls and the one-line jokes they so ably illustrate. This book includes a foreword by Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, an introduction by Lynn Johnston, cartoonist of the nationally syndicated strip For Better or For Worse, and reflections from the artist himself!

A Century of Artists Books

A Century of Artists Books
Author: Riva Castleman
Publisher: ABRAMS
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9780810961814

Published to accompany the 1994 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, this book constitutes the most extensive survey of modern illustrated books to be offered in many years. Work by artists from Pierre Bonnard to Barbara Kruger and writers from Guillaume Apollinarie to Susan Sontag. An importnt reference for collectors and connoisseurs. Includes notable works by Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso.