Eric Stanton

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Eric Stanton
Blunder Broad, Prinkazons
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Eric Stanton (born Ernest Stanzoni Jr.;[1] September 30, 1926 – March 17, 1999) was an American underground cartoonist and fetish art pioneer.[2][3]

While Stanton began his career as a bondage fantasy artist for

female dominance scenarios.[4] Commissioned by Klaw starting in the late 1940s,[5] his bondage fantasy chapter serials earned him underground fame. Stanton also worked with pioneering underground fetish art publishers, Leonard Burtman[6] (publisher of Exotique and Selbee magazines), the notorious Times Square publisher Edward Mishkin,[7] paperback publisher Stanley Malkin,[8] and later magazine publisher George W. Mavety. For a decade, Stanton also shared a working studio with Marvel Comics legend Steve Ditko
.

Past the soft-core era of the 1960s, his art became more transgressive. Creating a mail-order business in the 1970s named the "Stanton Archives," Stanton sold his work directly to fans and, starting in 1982, issued offset staple-bound fan-inspired books known as "Stantoons," producing more than a hundred by the time of his death. In his lifetime, Stanton also contributed to countless underground publications and later adult magazines like

Madonna
among others took inspiration from Stanton's work.

Biography

Early life and career

An episode from Bizarre Museum, originally published in 1951–1952

Stanton was born and raised in

Dr. Strange co-creator Steve Ditko. Another was Gene Bilbrew, whom he introduced to Klaw.[15]

From 1958 to 1968,[16] Stanton shared a Manhattan studio at 43rd Street and Eighth Avenue with Ditko. For many years, the two collaborated on fetish comics.[17][18] Ditko biographer Blake Bell, without citing sources, said, "At one time in history, Ditko denied ever touching Stanton's work, even though Stanton himself said they would each dabble in each other's art; mainly spot-inking",[17] and the introduction to one book of Stanton's work says, "Eric Stanton drew his pictures in India ink, and they were then hand-coloured by Ditko".[19] In a 1988 interview with Greg Theakston, Stanton recalled that although his contribution to Spider-Man was "almost nil", he and Ditko had "worked on storyboards together and I added a few ideas.... I think I added the business about the webs coming out of his hands".[20] According to the fetish art historian and Stanton biographer Richard Pérez Seves, Stanton may have purposely underplayed his role and contribution to Spider-Man to maintain his friendship with Ditko.[21] Even more startling, evidence exists that Stanton also made uncredited contributions to Dr. Strange.[22]

Later career

Cover illustration by Eric Stanton for Running Wild by Myron Kosloff (a pseudonym of Paul Little)

Starting in the late 1960s, Stanton supported himself by self-publishing and distributing his work to a quasi-underground network of subscribers and patrons. His offset printed Stantoons comic-book series, which began in 1982, continued to his death in 1999 and featured many of his best-known "transgressive" concepts, including the

superheroine Blunder Broad,[23] and the Amazon-like Princkazons.[23]

Blunder Broad

Stanton created Blunder Broad in the 1970s with writer

superheroine who continually fails in her missions and is invariably tortured by her enemies, who include a lesbian supervillainess called Leopard Lady, Pussycat Galore, or Cheetah, and her male sidekick Count Dastardly. Blunder Broad can be deprived of her super strength when subjected to cunnilingus
.

Princkazons

With "Lady Princker", Stanton and Shaltis (as well as Alan Throne and Winter) created the Princkazons storyline in which women around the world grew oversized female penises, or "princks". These women also grew taller and stronger than men and began dominating and humiliating the men in public, including facesitting,[23] urophagia,[25] coprophagia,[26] and anal and oral rape.[23]

Legacy

Beginning in the mid-1970s, Bélier Press, a New York publisher of vintage fetish art, reprinted many of Stanton's comic serials in its 24-volume Bizarre Comix series.[27] Titles, mainly from the 1950s, include Dianna's Ordeal, Perils of Dianna, Priscilla: Queen of Escapes, Poor Pamela, Bound in Leather, Duchess of the Bastille, Bizarre Museum, Pleasure Bound, Rita's School of Discipline, Mrs. Tyrant's Finishing School, Fifi Chastises Her Maids, A Hazardous Journey, Helga's Search for Slaves, Madame Discipline, and Girls' Figure Training Academy.[3]

Book-length collections of Stanton comics have been translated into many foreign languages, including French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch. Additionally, Stanton's art was reprinted in the 1990s in

Eros Comix
: The Kinky Hook (1991), Sweeter Gwen (1992), Confidential TV (1994), and Tops and Bottoms #1–4 (1997). Individual issues were subtitled "Bound Beauty" (#1), "Lady in Charge" (#2), "Broken Engagement" (#3), and "Broken Engagement 2" (#4).

References

  1. ISBN 9780764355424
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  2. ^ Pérez Seves 2018, pp. 9–11.
  3. ^ a b c Perrone, Pierre (June 5, 1999). "Obituary: Eric Stanton". The Independent. Retrieved May 7, 2018.
  4. ^ Pérez Seves 2018, p. 10.
  5. ^ Pérez Seves 2018, pp. 28–32.
  6. ^ Pérez Seves 2018, pp. 74–80.
  7. ^ Pérez Seves 2018, pp. 70–73.
  8. ^ Pérez Seves 2018, pp. 165–176.
  9. ^ Pérez Seves 2018, p. 12.
  10. ^ Pérez Seves 2018, pp. 21–22.
  11. ISBN 9783836539302
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  12. ISBN 978-1560979616
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  13. ISBN 9780313357473
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  14. ^ Pérez Seves 2018, pp. 37–42.
  15. ^ Pérez Seves 2018, pp. 37–38.
  16. ^ Pérez Seves 2018, p. 213.
  17. ^ a b Bell, Blake. "Ditko & Stanton". Ditko Looked Up. Archived from the original on October 8, 2002. Additional .
  18. ^ Theakston, The Steve Ditko Reader, pp. 13–15 (unnumbered, pp. 14–15 misordered as pp. 16 & 14)
  19. ISBN 978-3-8228-8169-9
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  20. ^ Theakston, Steve Ditko Reader, p. 14 (unnumbered, misordered as page 16)
  21. ^ Pérez Seves 2018, pp. 143–151.
  22. ^ Pérez Seves 2018, pp. 99–100.
  23. ^ a b c d In Stantoons #5, for example
  24. ^ Eric Stanton, foreword to Blunder Broad, Glittering images, Firenze, 1991
  25. ^ Stantoons #24, for example
  26. ^ Stantoons #15, for example
  27. ^ "Bizarre Comix". Grand Comics Database. Retrieved October 22, 2017.

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