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.

Tumblr favorite #1774: Cyborg Skater Girl

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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 003 – Cyborg Skater Girl.” Here is Bacchus’s research:

This image opened a short thread on Drawr.net in 2010, where can also be found what looks like notes and preliminary drawings by the artist along with at least one related artwork by a different artist featuring the same cyborg skater girl. The creator of this image was Drawr.net user 干し首 (machine translation: shrunken head), whose drawr.net URL is http://drawr.net/metalunamutant

According to this, drawr.net is:

a Flash-based website where anyone with a pixiv account can sign in and draw inside their browser, through a web application.

Since drawr does not have an interface for text, people usually reply to each other using drawings or drawn text. This means that people can create threads, where anyone can participate with drawn replies.

Tumblr favorite #1769: Nude and technology II

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Original post here. Sourced to retrodoll via erotiterrorist.

This illustration was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the Γ research commission. The original results were published at Hedonix as Γ 002 – Robotic Tan Lines Inspector. Here is what Bacchus found:

This image is one of those widespread internet images that is extremely difficult to source. The oldest web pages currently displaying the image are dated (like this one) to 2009, but the sourcing there indicates it was on at least one no-longer-extant Tumblr blog earlier than that. Subsequently it has been all over, from French biker forums to LiveJournal. All copies on the internet appear to be versions or crops from the same 324×551 pixel image. About the only hint at provenance I can determine comes from the image itself, which on close inspection reveals that the robot has non-Roman lettering on its chest:

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At least one cameraman can be seen in the background, suggesting that this may be an image from an arranged publicity event.

A commenter at Hedonix had something interesting to add:

Your mistake was thinking that was non-Euro script. In fact, the image is flipped. I unflipped it and found it said “AROK”, then I searched Google Images for it. I found it here: http://cyberneticzoo.com/robots/1975-arok-ben-skora-american/ The link says that it is Miss Nude World 1975, which a Google search said was Stormy Shea (Cynthia Johns)…but a confirmed image was not to be found under either name.

Quite a lot of information on one small image!

Tumblr favorite #1765: Beautiful Code

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Original post here. Sourced to DIGITAL PUNK via cursedmaker.

This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlogBacchus at Erosblog as part of the “Γ commission.” The results were originally published at Hedonix as Γ 001 – Beautiful Code. Here is Bacchus’s research:

This image is titled Code and may be found on DeviantArt as part of the substantial Cyberatonica series by Russian artist Vitaly-Sokol, aka Willyam Bradberry. There is a companion image that is a closeup:

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The artist also has a Russian-language site and blog where more of his work may be found.

Pulp Art Re-creation: Alien Rescue

Introduction

A re-creation by another newcomer to Erotic Mad Science, Studio Ambobus.

Image

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Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Source

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The cover of Uncanny Tales (November 1939), done by J.W. Scott. This cover was researched by Bacchus and there is a discussion where I first blogged about it in the post “Δ 061 – Alien Experimenters” at Infernal Wonders.

The Artist

Studio Ambobus describes its activities as creating “covers for pulp magazines that never existed… but should have!” It has a tumblr called “Naughty Pulps.”