Monthly Archives: October 2015

Tumblr favorite #1781: The creation of cyborg

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Original post here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Γ commission.” It was originally published at Hedonix as “Γ 011 – God Fingers Cyborg. Here is Bacchus’s research:

This is artwork by Polish artist perun-tworek titled swiatotworzenie cover where it appears on DeviantArt. “Swiatotworzenie” appears to be the title of a book for which this is the cover art; you can see the book cover and some information in Polish here. The book is published by the Polish-language licensee of the Savage Worlds roleplaying game and appears related to that franchise.

The art, of course, is a cyborg-themed homage to the famous 1512 fresco The Creation Of Adam by Michelangelo.

Tumblr favorite #1780: The Sex Machine

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Original post here. Image is a book cover containing the text “Popular Library. 50 Million Men Can’t Be Wrong. The Sex Machine. A zany novel that does for poll takers what ‘The Hucksters’ did for the ad boys. Shepherd Mead.” This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Γ commission.” It was originally published at Hedonix as “Γ 010 – The Sex Machine.” Here is Bacchus’s research:

This book cover illustration is, according to Pinup And Cartoon Girls, by Puerto Rican commercial artist Alex Schomburg. (The signature “Xela” visible on the artwork would appear to be “Alex” spelled backwards, and appears on many of the Schomburg covers shown at that link.) More information about Alex Schomburg is available on Wikipedia and here.

The pictured book The Sex Machine is by Mead Shepherd. According to that link to the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction’s entry on Shepherd, the 1950 edition pictured first appeared in 1949 under the less-lurid title The Magnificent MacInnes. Synopsis: “Consumer society is satirized through the story of an electronic device that can make predictions of personal preferences.” What may be the back cover excerpt blurb is provided by this Abe Books listing for a copy:

‘Get your clothes off, Girls!’ MacInnes gasped at Bascomb’s order to his models. ‘Take off all their clothes?’ Mac’s trembling hand hit the controls of the Psychoelectronic Correlator. There was a vivid flash and all the lights went out…

Mac could tell in advance, by consulting his brain, what people liked best in everything from toothpaste to sex. With Fred Beecher, a pollster, to back him, Mac pretended to get his answers from the Correlator. In no time at all they were on the high road to fame.

But there were detours. The first was buxom Peggy Maddox who looked good with or without clothes and kept Fred’s mind on the wrong kind of business. The second was the survey job Fred and Mac took to find the sexiest girl in America. And what a zany search that proved to be!”

Tumblr favorite #1779: Steampunk Tinkerbell Cosplay

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Original post here. These images were researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Γ commission.” They were originally published at Hedonix as “Γ 009 – Steampunk Tinkerbell Cosplay. Here is Bacchus’s research:

These images come originally from a post at EPBOT, where Jen writes about her visit to Megacon 2013 in Orlando, Florida:

I fangirled all over Steampunk Tinkerbell here, because I follow the maker of this costume, Firefly Path, on Facebook, and saw a few preview pics just the day before. If you love gorgeous costumes as much as I do, then you really should be following JoEllen’s work. As you can see, it is stunning. (This isn’t JoEllen in the pic, by the way; she’s just the one who made the entire costume, from boots to wings.)

The model in these pictures is Madeline Masquerade, a Vancouver model and cosplayer whose Facebook page features another shot of her in this Steampunk Tinkerbelle costume as her FaceBook avatar. The page also features this photo of her in the costume. On her Tumblr blog, Madeline strives to correct the Tumblr attribution-stripping one of the photos suffered:

Steampunk Tinkerbell Cosplay

Fabricator: Firefly Path

Cosplayer/Model: Madeline Masquerade

Photographer: EPBOT

I’ve been seeing this photo going around multiple facebook pages and tumblrs with no credit to the model and/or fabricator. A few blogs have even gone so far as to remove the photographer’s watermark. I thought I’d repost it with proper credit, as stealing images is not cool.

I agree. Stripping attribution is not cool. That’s why I pay Bacchus to put it back!

Tumblr favorite #1778: Blue light district

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Original post here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlogBacchus at Erosblog as part of the “Γ commission.” It was originally published at Hedonix as “Γ 008 – Blue Light District.” Here is Bacchus’s provenance:

This artwork is titled Blue Light District by artist RyomaNinja (aka Ryoma Tazi) and can be seen on DeviantArt. The artist writes:

I usually don’t do interior scenes… so I did one! This is a future strip club… I tried to make it fast and kind of like early development art for a game or movie.

Tumblr favorite #1777: Becoming Tigra

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Original post here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Γ commission.” It was originally published at Hedonix as “Γ 007 – Becoming Tigra.” Here is Bacchus’s research:

All instances of this comic book artwork on the web appear to trace back to this blog post, where it appears in concert with several panels featuring the tiger-woman Tigra, panels that probably first appeared in Marvel Comic’s Giant Sized Creatures #1 (July 1, 1974). Although that book does not appear to be freely available online, a summary here describes a flashback scene that tells Tigra’s origin story:

In an underground lab, the caged Tigra watches as Hydra agents dismantle the place looking for something called the “Final Secret”. She recalls the events leading to this point. As Greer Nelson, under the aegis of scientist Dr. Joanne Tumolo, she became the crimefighter known as the Cat. A day earlier, she foiled a kidnap attempt of Tumolo by Hydra, but was shot with a radiation pistol. To save Greer’s life, Tumolo revealed herself to be from a race of cat people, and that Greer would live if she became one of them. In the Cat People’s lair in a cave in Mexico, Greer underwent the ritual that transformed her into Tigra.

It seems likely that the “You’re going to die of alpha radiation! There’s only one way we can save you!” dialog would have followed immediately upon her having been shot with a radiation pistol, and that “there’s only one way” refers to the subsequent ritual.

Tumblr favorite #1776: Spin cycle

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Original post here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Γ commission.” It was originally published at Hedonix as “Γ 006 – Spin Cycle.” Here is Bacchus’s research:

I tried very hard to identify this artwork as the work of Denis Kitchen, cartoonist and founder of underground comics publisher Kitchen Sink Press, as well as the founder of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. My notion was that it might have appeared in one of the issues of Bizarre Sex that Kitchen edited and helped illustrate in the early 1980s.

Unfortunately the art style seemed unlikely, and I was unable to find a sample of the same block-capitals “DENIS” signature (under a copyright symbol) that appears in this artwork in any of Kitchen’s works available online. Although he did use a wide variety of different art signatures over his lengthy and prolific career, none of them match. For example, this Bizarre Sex cover is signed “Kitchen” in script, while a recent project available through the shop at Mr. Kitchen’s current online comic art agency is signed “Denis Kitchen” in script. Decorative art on his website is signed “DK” in capitals, while there’s a 1979 self-portrait appearing here that’s signed “©79 DK” and includes a block-lettered DENIS in the artwork that’s not very similar to the signature of the instant piece.

Upon further search, I believe the artwork is a much better match to French erotic illustrator “Denis” who maintains a web presence via this blog. Although the washing machine image is not present there, the art style on display is a very good match for this cartoon. See, e.g., this picture, which also displays a very close signature match on similarly-styled line art against a colored background. This image, too, displays a closely-matching signature and artistic similarities.

Tumblr favorite #1775: It doesn’t reach!

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Original post here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Γ commission.” It was originally published at Hedonix as “Γ 005 – It Doesn’t Reach!” (There was no Γ 004 due to a numbering error on my part.) Here is Bacchus’s research:

This artwork is by Pixiv artist 鏑樹由貴 (Kabura-ju Yuki) and appears here under the title 届かないわ (machine translation: “not reach”). There is a caption that machine translates to “Maggie from Virtual Girl” and also a tag that machine-translates as “Amy Thompson”. These references are presumably to the novel Virtual Girl by Amy Thompson, in which a man illegally creates a robotic companion (Maggie?) with artificial intelligence.

The same artist appears on DeviantArt under the name yuki-kaburagi with a small gallery of artwork.