Eric Stanton

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Eric Stanton (September 30, 1926 – March 17, 1999; born Ernest Stanzoni) was an American bondage and fetish illustrator, cartoonist, and comic-book artist.

The majority of his work depicted female dominance scenarios.

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Biography [edit]

Early life and career [edit]

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

Born and raised in New York City, Stanton began his career in 1947 at Irving Klaw's Movie Star News company, gaining employment by boasting he could draw better than any of the artists then working for Klaw.[citation needed] He afterward attended the Cartoonists and Illustrators School, under Batman inker Jerry Robinson and others. One classmate was future Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko, with whom Stanton shared a Manhattan studio at 43rd Street and Eighth Avenue from 1958 to 1966 or 1968 (accounts differ). Some of Stanton's work during this period shows Ditko influence[1] (see below), 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".[2] Ditko reportedly denied touching Stanton's work,[1] though Stanton himself said they would spot-ink each other's art.[1]

Stanton, in a 1988 interview with comics historian Greg Theakston, recalled that though his contribution to Spider-Man was "almost nil", he and Ditko had "worked on storyboards together [and] I added a few ideas. But the whole thing was created by Steve on his own. ... I think I added the business about the webs coming out of his hands".[3]

Later career [edit]

Blunder Broad. Detail, cover of Stantoons #5 (c. 1970s)

After Klaw died in 1966, Stanton supported himself by self-publishing and distributing his work to a quasi-underground network of subscribers and patrons. His mimeographed/photocopied Stantoons comic-book series continued to his death in 1999 and featured many of his best-known post-Klaw concepts, including the superheroine Blunder Broad,[4] and the Amazon-like Princkazons.[4]

Blunder Broad [edit]

Stanton created Blunder Broad in the 1970s with writer Turk Winter,[5] for use in a great number of pornographic BDSM stories, published over the years in black and white. A parody of Wonder Woman, Blunder Broad is an inept superheroine who continually fails in her missions and is invariably raped and tortured by her enemies, who include a lesbian supervillainess variably 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 [edit]

With "Lady Princker", Stanton and Shaltis (as well as Alan Throne and Winter) created the Princkazons storyline in which women around the world grew female penises, or "princks". These women also grew taller and stronger than men and began dominating and humiliating the men in public, including facesitting[4] and rape.[4]

Legacy [edit]

In addition to books about his work, Stanton's art was reprinted in the 1990s in Fantagraphics Books' Eros Comix comic book Tops and Bottoms, issues subtitled "Bound Beauty" (#1), "Lady in Charge" (#2), "Broken Engagement" (#3), "Broken Engagement 2" (#4), Sweet Gwen, The Kinky Hook, as well as in that publisher's Bizarre Comix #3 and Confidential TV. The German publisher Taschen has published several collections.

Beginning in the late 1970s, Belier Press, a New York publisher of vintage erotica, reprinted many of Stanton's comic serials in its 24 volume Bizarre Comix series. These books are still available from Belier.

Titles, mainly from the 1950s and '60s, 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.

See also [edit]

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Footnotes [edit]

  1. ^ a b c Ditko Looked Up: "Ditko & Stanton"
  2. ^ Riemschneider, Burkhard. Eric Stanton: For the Man Who Knows His Place (Benedikt Taschen Verlag "Amuse-Guele", 1997), p.4 (unnumbered) ISBN 3-8228-8169-4, ISBN 978-3-8228-8169-9
  3. ^ Theakston, Greg. The Steve Ditko Reader (Pure Imagination, Brooklyn, NY, 2002; ISBN 1-56685-011-8), p. 14 (unnumbered, misordered as page 16)
  4. ^ a b c d In Stantoons #5, for example
  5. ^ Eric Stanton, foreword to Blunder Broad, Glittering images, Firenze, 1991

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