Little Script and Bespoke Art: The Asianizer

Every now and again I feel the need to write a bit of screenplay, and Shon’s observation on Austin Grove’s rather problematic erotic predilections somehow inspired me to get in touch with my inner Michael O’Donoghue and write a little satire. At least, I think it’s a satire. Other perfectly respectable people might think I’m just indulging in racial fetishes and misogyny for my own sick amusement. C’est la guerre. Anyway, those of you who grew up in the United States in the 1970s and watched those over-loud television commercials for various apparently-miraculous life-problem solving products you could send away for by mail order (e.g. those of Ronco and the like) will probably readily recognize the strange little genre to which this short script belongs (you can mouse-over and use the control buttons at the bottom of the image to page through the script):

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Naturally it seemed wrong that I should just have black-and-white text to illustrate such a concept, so I commissioned Frans Mensink to bring it out in glorious living color:

Not a trick! Not a disguise, but an amazing thorough transformation!

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2015 Squick or Squee Week VII: Les Pervertis

Introduction

Frans Mensink turns his re-creation into a meta-level meditation on inspiration…and fear. Happy Halloween, everybody!

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The Artist and a Note

Frans Mensink has a DeviantArt site here and a professional site here.

A larger version of this art is expected to be published at the Internet Archive in early November.

Pulp Art recreation XIX: New acquisition

Introduction

Frans Mensink really goes to town on what looks to be a new acquisition in the harem.

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Provenance for this cover and the artist can be found in the post “The 1000 slaves of the whip-mad sheik” at Infernal Wonders.

The Artist

Frans Mensink has a DeviantArt site here and a professional site here.

Pulp Art recreations XIII: Damsel, mads, ape

Introduction

Another pulp recreation by Frans Mensink. I feel a sense of ambiguity about the ape’s motivations here. Is it another menace, or an enraged rescuer?

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A distressed naked damsel is injected by mad scientists, while an enraged ape looks on.

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This is a crop from a cover of Mystery Novels and Short Stories (November 1939).

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The artist is William F. Soare (1896-1940). I wasn’t able to find too much on him, but he does have The Field Guide to American Pulp Artists, whence I found the image above. I originally blogged the image in a post An injection, then…” at Infernal Wonders.

The Artist

Frans Mensink has a DeviantArt site here and a professional site here.

Pulp Art recreations V: Lights, camera, peril!

Introduction

Another one by Frans Mensink, showing an actress who really needs to fire her agent.

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I originally blogged this in a post “Lights, Camera, Peril” at Infernal Wonders, but that post lacked much in the way of provenance. A little subsequence Internet research shows that the source of the illustration is the April 1936 cover of Saucy Movie Tales by the prolific American pulp artist Norman Saunders (1907-1989). This appears to be the unredacted cover:

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Found in this gallery at American Art Archives. There is a dedicated Norman Saunders site here.

The Artist

Frans Mensink has a DeviantArt site here and a professional site here.

Pulp Art recreations I: Werewolf Peril

Introduction

We’ll be resuming publication of the Tales of Gnosis College in July, but in the meantime we have something special for you running on a daily basis: pulp art recreations.

What are pulp art recreations? While I have a more elaborate explanation on the artists’ commission page, the basic idea is that we’re delving into the past of old pulp and comics covers and looking for relevant art for modern artists to…sex up a bit. Or rather, a bit more, given that these covers were pretty racy to begin with. In this sequence of posts we’ll be including the new art and then the source.

Our first entry is by Netherlands artist Frans Mensink.

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Additional information about the source and its provenance can by found in this post at Infernal Wonders.

The artist

Frans Mensink has a DeviantArt page here and a professional website here.

Squick or Squee 2014: Terror Tales Tube Girls

Capping it off for Squick or Squee week this year, Netherlands artist Frans Mensink does his own up-to-date take on a classic pulp cover.

If you click through the image you can download the full-size, high-resolution version of the image, Be warned, though — it’s big — about 24MB.

Terror Tales Tube Girl Experiment commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Frans Mensink is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)

Frans’s inspiration is the cover for Terror Tales, November-December 1938.

Pulp done right! And that’s it for this year…happy Halloween, everybody!

We Must Boost the Signal: Concept Art II

Continuing with art for “We Must Boost the Signal” we have a contribution from the much-admired Frans Mensink which fairly sizzles, even if there’s no nudity (at least, as that term is normally understood). Young brain scientist Dr. Hope Montclair is allowed to visit a mysterious government laboratory, where a terrifying secret is revealed. (The G-man in the picture is named Macneil, as is thus a metafictional link to the Tales of Gnosis College.) For those of you following the script, it’s roughly Page 22,Panel One. For those of you who just like the pictures, you can download a very large (~23MB) high-definition version of the picture by clicking through the one that appears on this blog.

“Hope Montclair Sees the Brains” is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. It was commissioned by Iago Faustus and executed by Frans Mensink.

Squick or Squee week 2013 VI: Bride of Frankenstein

It’s a well-worn subject, but we can always count on Frans Mensink, who has done splendid Erotic Mad Science work here before, to come up with a version with extra sizzle for Squick or Squee week. You can get a huge (~27MB), high-resolution version of the painting by clicking through.

Erotic Bride of Frankenstein is an image commissioned for 2013 Squick or Squee week by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com, who also commissioned this image. The image was conceived and executed by Frans Mensink. It is published here by Dr. Faustus under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Bespoke art: Jireen Arises by Frans Mensink

Since I can’t go too long without Jireen, I have commissioned a piece showing the moment of her creation. It’s been the Netherlands-based artist Frans Mensink (DeviantArt site here, personal site here), who is rightly famous for his gorgeous pin-up work. You can click through for the glorious full-size image (though be warned, it is quite large and might take a lot of time to download).

Jireen Arises is an image based on the Tales of Gnosis College, written by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com, who also commissioned this image. The image was executed by Frans Mensink. It is published here by Dr. Faustus under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.