Eric Stanton ( born Eric Stanton , September 30, 1926 - March 17, 1999 ); Ernest Stanzoni, an American artist who worked in the genre of bondage (bondage) and sexual fetishism as an illustrator, animator and comic book artist.
Although most of his works depict scenarios of female domination (over a man), he also created drawings showing inversion (domination over a woman). In his later work, Stanton also included bisexual , homosexual, and transgender images.
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Biography
Career start
Stanton began his career in 1947 at the company of Irving Klaw, Movie Star News ( New York ), getting a job that he could boast of, which paints better than any of the artists who worked at that time. He subsequently attended the School of Animators and Illustrators (now the School of Visual Arts), where among his teachers was the famous Batman draftsman Jerry Robinson and others. And among classmates was one of the future creators of Spider-Man Steve Ditko ( Steve Ditko ). Stanton shared a Manhattan studio at the intersection of 43rd Street and Eighth Avenue with Ditko from 1958 to 1966 or 1968 (reports vary). Some of Stanton's works during this period demonstrate a strong influence of Ditko (see below), although Ditko denied the possibility of his contribution to Stanton's art. [one]
Stanton, in a 1988 interview with comic book historian Greg Theakston, recalled that although his contribution to Spider-Man was “almost nil”, he and Ditko “worked for the script department together [and] I added a few ideas. But overall, this thing was created by Steve on his own. ... I think I threw the idea of networks flying out of his hands. " [2]
Subsequent Career
After the death of Clau in 1966, Stanton supported himself through samizdat and the spread of his work in a quasi underground network of subscribers and patrons. His printed / photocopied Stantoons series was published until his death in 1999, and presented most of his most well-known post-Claw concepts, such as Blunder Broad (a sexy parody of Wonder Woman). Woman) ) and Princkazons .
Legacy
In addition to books about his work, Stanton's art was reprinted in the 1990s in the Eros Comix comic book series by Fantagraphics Books by Tops and Bottoms comic books, the titles have subtitles: “Bound Beauty” (# 1) , “Ladies in Care” (Lady in Charge) (# 2), “Broken Engagement” (# 3), “Broken Engagement 2” (Broken Engagement 2) (# 4), as well as in series of the same Bizarre Comix # 3 and Confidential TV . Taschen (German comic book publisher) has published several collections.
Notes
- ↑ Ditko Looked Up: “Ditko & Stanton” Archived on September 24, 2010.
- ↑ Theakston, Greg. The Steve Ditko Reader (Pure Imagination, Brooklyn, NY, 2002; ISBN 1-56685-011-8 ), p. 14 (unnumbered, misordered as page 16)
Links
- Eric Kroll, The Art of Eric Stanton: For the Man Who Knows His Place ( Taschen , 1997) ISBN 3-8228-8499-5
- Eric Kroll, Eric Stanton: She Dominates All and Other Stories Taschen , 2001) ISBN 3-8228-5565-0
- Burckhard Riemschneider, Eric Stanton, Reunion in Ropes. Taschen , 2001) ISBN 3-8228-5529-4
- Eric Stanton Bibliography