The book is virtually an extensively annotated bibliography of Stanton’s life work. His text is accompanied throughout by lots and lots of illustrations, many in color, and Seves gives the histories of several of Stanton’s serials and tells their stories. The book has an index and is copiously footnoted in the back by page number, which notes add substantial information to the narrative as well as citing Seves’ extensive sources. And he interviewed many persons who either knew Stanton or others of the fetish milieu. The details of Stanton’s life and some representation of his work I’ve taken from Eric Stanton & the History of the Bizarre Underground by Richard Perez Seves (288 7x8-inch pages, b/w and some color 2018 Schiffer Publishing hardcover, $29.99).Īuthor Seves, who says on the book jacket’s back flap that he is a collector “obsessed” with vintage American fetish art, musters impressive research in the book: he dug into FBI reports, court records, Navy documents, the New York State Census, previous books about Stanton (Eric Kroll’s The Art of Eric Stanton and other tomes), as well as such obvious sources as Belier Press publications and many obscure periodicals ( Comics Buyer’s Guide!?). Stanton also worked with pioneering underground fetish art publishers, Leonard Burtman, the notorious Times Square publisher. Commissioned by Klaw starting in the late 1940s, his bondage fantasy chapter serials earned him underground fame. While Stanton began his career as a bondage fantasy artist for Irving Klaw, the majority of his later work depicted gender role reversal and proto-feminist female dominance scenarios. Wikipedia sums him up this way (avoiding Ditko):Įric Stanton was an American underground cartoonist and fetish art pioneer. The other fascinating aspect to Stanton is that he probably helped Steve Ditko invent Spider-Man. I’m more fascinated by his work than his psyche. Why he did that is a question for his psychoanalyst, not me. First, he could draw beautiful sexy women but chose to portray them in physical combat or bound, strapped, and gagged in the best dominance tradition. STANTON IS A FASCINATING FIGURE in cartooning for at least two reasons. To learn more about these charities and how you can donate, click here.Features Eric Stanton: Master Fetish Artist

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