Tag Archives: Research by Bacchus

Tumblr favorite #1854: You feel…itchy…

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Original post here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Δ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Δ 022 – ‘Your Clothes Feel Intolerably Itchy…’ .”Here is what Bacchus found.

It is a sad commentary on the current sorry state of image search engines that despite being having been (as of the time of writing of this attribution [Faustus — probably January 2015]) “liked” and “reblogged” by 3750 different people on Tumblr since being originally posted there, the search engines are collectively aware of only one instance of this animation, and that is here.

No attribution for this animation could be discovered. However, it is clearly made from (or created as an homage to) the extensive schlock line-art advertising that has surrounded the entertaining flim-flam enterprise that is commercial hypnosis or mesmerisation, as first pioneered by Franz Mesmer and subsequently promoted by James Braid, vaudeville performers, hucksters at fairs the world over, small ads in the back of comic books and pulp magazines, and modernly, on blogs.

Tumblr favorite #1853: The reason for the season

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Original post here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Δ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Δ 021 – Frankenbaby Jesus.” Here is what Bacchus found.

This Frankenstein family nativity scene is cropped from the 2013 Christmas card posted at German artist Rainer F. Engel’s blog, where the post, and perhaps the artwork, is titled “The Holy Family”:

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Some additional German-language artist information is available here.

Tumblr favorite #1852: Is anyone there?

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Original post here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Δ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Δ 020 – Is Anybody Out There? Here is what Bacchus found.

This image is cropped from the cover of a 1985 edition of a 1979 French-language science fiction novel by Phillipe Curval, titled Y a quelqu’un?, which title means, roughly, “Is anybody there?”

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The Internet Speculative Fiction Database has a detailed bibliography and brief biographical information for Phillipe Curval. The same source identifies the artist for this cover as French artist Philippe Caza. That seems to match the thinly-drawn signature under the small male figure lower left in the artwork.

Tumblr favorite #1851: Charge of the Bride

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Original post here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Δ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Δ 019 – Charge Of The Bride.” Here is what Bacchus found.

Allow me to present a guest attribution that does a better job than I could hope to accomplish by artful paraphrase. From Frankensteinia, The Frankenstein Blog:

The Bride of Frankenstein as pin-up girl is a favorite subject for cartoonists and tattoo artists, but few illustrators are as accomplished as Aly Fell of Manchester, UK, whose sumptuous art is of a tradition that tracks back directly to the classic glamour artists like Gil Elvgren and Alberto Vargas.

Fell’s smart and sexy subjects are beautifully composed and awash in rich colors and witty details, as evidenced in his Bride portrait, entitled Charge! (2007). This Bride wears purple lipstick, green silk stockings and keeps a wrench on her dressing table. Hairspray by the crateful explains the hairstyle. Note the autographed snapshot of her beau and the stashed Abby Normal brain.

Aly (Alastair) Fell work is displayed for your guaranteed appreciation on his website and blog.

All I would add to that is that the artist has a substantial bio and gallery available on his website.

Tumblr favorite #1850: Runaway sex machine

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Original post here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Δ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Δ 018 – Runaway Sex Machine.” Here is what Bacchus found.

This artwork is called Mad Science Project, and it is by irongnome at Hentai Foundry. The artist writes:

Here we find the girl from this previous picture testing out her new invention. Of course, some bugs are to be expected in any new technology… ctrl alt del!!

Tumblr favorite #1848: Big gun

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Original post here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Δ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Δ 016 – /You Can Get More With Big Breasts And A Gun…’.” Here is what Bacchus found.

The originating tumblr post in this image’s chain of tumblr provenances includes the tags “#gantz #ガンツ #oku hiroya #seinen #manga #mangacap #monochrome #myedit”. That final tag suggests the image is an edit unique to the Tumblr where found. The rest of the tags lead directly to the source artwork, which is this manga page:

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The page is from the Gantz/11 manga (viewable in full here) which is credited to the Hiroya Oku Works. Gantz (or ガンツ) is 383 chapters long, is drawn by Hiroya Oku, and supports a 26 episode anime adaptation. The artist has an official web page here.

Tumblr favorite #1847: Coffin specimen

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Original post here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Δ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Δ 015 – Casket Specimen.” Here is what Bacchus found.

This artwork is cropped from the front cover of Strange Fantasy, August 1952:

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You can view the entire comic online here. An even larger scan of this cover (a different copy of the comic, with different color balance in the scan and different cover damage) is visible here, via this page.

Even the most detailed comics databases do not seem to contain confirmed information on who painted the cover art for this publication, although “Iger Shop” is listed in what seems to be a speculative fashion. “Iger shop” refers, according to this detailed comics index, to “Jerry Iger’s New York City comic art studio that produced art for a number of publishers.” So an “Iger shop” credit would seem to translate to “we know where the art came from, but not who created it.”

Tumblr favorite #1846: Eerie tube girl

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Original post here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Δ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Δ 014 – Eerie Tube Girl.” Here is what Bacchus found.

This artwork is cropped from the covers of an Eerie Mysteries magazine:

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This page suggests that only four issues of Eerie Mysteries ever appeared, in 1938 and 1939. It appears (although the scan is indistinct) that the cover above may be from the February 1939 issue. No artist information seems to be available, although it is known that Norman Saunders illustrated the cover of the August 1938 issue.

Tumblr favorite #1845: Ideal relationship

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Original post here. These images were researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Δ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Δ 013 No Robots, No Deal. Here is what Bacchus found.

This comic strip originates in the Tumblr chain of attribution at the “Around Since 1991” tumblr, where it is tagged “MyArt”. That Tumblr belongs to Jessi, aka CrystallizedTwilight on DeviantArt. Although the comic strip itself is not visible in the DeviantArt gallery for CrystallizedTwilight, the face appearing in the comic strip also appears as a self-portrait of sorts in the “DeviantID” artist profile section for CrystallizedTwilight.