Pinup art of bill wenzel3/8/2024 ![]() ![]() The first checklist of Wenzel's paperback covers was done thirty years ago by Lance Casebeer in his seminal fanzine COLLECTING PAPERBACKS. We will also look at a few magazine oddities including some comic strips. ![]() The idea of trying to list all of the appearances of his cartoons makes my head hurt, but I believe a list of all of his vintage paperback covers can be done here. In addition to all those wonderful cartoons, Bill Wenzel also did illustrations and cover art for vintage digests and paperback books. “Though wasp-waisted long-legged women were de rigueur in the digests, Wenzel set himself apart from the rest of the best with his decidedly more Rubenesque rendering of the female form.”Īnd I must confess it is that “decidedly more Rubenesque” quality that makes me a Wenzel collector. Most of what I know about Wenzel comes from a great book called THE PIN-UP ART OF BILL Wenzel by Alex Chun & Jacob Covey (Fantagraphics, 2005): He created thousands of cartoons, each of them immediately recognizable due to his distinctive style. Wenzel cartoons appear in every major men's magazine throughout the 50s, 60s and 70s, from the lofty PLAYBOY to ROGUE and ESCAPADE and SWANK and so on, right down to the cheapest Humorama digest. ![]() Bill Wenzel was an incredibly prolific 20th century American cartoonist. ![]()
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