According to the Drake’s Way tumblr, this is an illustrated page from the interior of the March 1959 Man’s Life magazine (cover art by Will Hulsey visible here via this page). The story by Gene Channing is headlined “Love-Starved Women Are Lousing Up College Towns” and begins “Wild parties thrive in fraternity and rooming houses despite colleges’ attempt to control morals. The shocking behavior of many students are turning colleges into romantic playgrounds — young men and women are sacrificing the future of our nation in the quest for fun.” Oh, darn.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
Tag Archives: Research by Bacchus
Horror Story
As is evident from the image, this is the cover of an issue of the vintage magazine Horror Stories. The visible cover text reads “Horror Stories. Daughter of Dark Desire: Long Mystery-Horror Novel by Norvell W. Page. The Bus Death Drove: Spine-Tingling Horror Novelette by Wayne Rogers. James – Sperry – Burns.” This particular issue is the April-May issue dating from, according to this page, 1937. The cover art is by artist John Drew, according to this biographical sketch page that includes the art via a 1937-04 Horror Stories link. This auction listing details the stories in the magazine that are not identified on the cover, and additionally confirms the John Drew cover art attribution.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
Melt
This artwork is by Japanese-Indonesian freelance illustrator Mayumi Haryoto. According to her web page, it is titled Fading Into Colors and was painted in 2009. Her DeviantArt page features more of her work.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
Organic tentacles
Although this image seems no longer to be found at the faustie.com URL visible in the image, there is a censored version of this art on DeviantArt identifying it as “The Nest” by artist Faustie in collaboration with artist defected-angel. Faustie says “A collaboration with the very cool defected angel! Took me a year to get the guts to color this. Love, love, love his lines.” The image also appears with many others at this Faustie’s Monster Rape Gallery.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
Big Bad Octopus
This image is the cover art for this 1977 collection of erotic comics, and according to that link, the artist is Alessandro Biffignandi. As may be seen in the image, the collection is titled “Seleccions del comic erotico presenta Tentaculos”, meaning roughly “Erotic Comics Selections presents: Tentacles” (part of this series). The same art later appeared on the cover of a 1979 comic called Le trésor sous la mer (The Treasure Under The Sea).
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
Opium
This image is a rare silent film poster for the 1919 movie Opium. (A trailer for Opium is available on YouTube.) Text on the poster is “Opium. Ein monumental Filmwerk in 6 Akten. Regie Robert Reinert.” There is a detailed synopsis of the movie here. According to this page and confirmed by the signature at upper left, the poster artist was Theo Matejko.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
Dark-eyed albino
This artwork appears to be a cropped and horizontally-flipped screen capture from a somewhat surreal music video by My Chemical Romance entitled I Don’t Love You. The video (directed by Marc Webb) appears here on YouTube, and the image is to be found at approximately the 2:40 mark. The video also appears on the band’s page. No information on the responsible video artist could be discovered.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
Maghella
This is cover art from one of the nearly 150 Maghella fumetti comics published in Italy and France in the 1970s and 1980s. According to this Italian eBay auction it is issue #124 from 1979. On the cover is visible the text “Maghella. Vietato ai minori di seidici anni.” There is an Italian eBay auction here that offers a high quality reproduction of the cover art (without markings); the artist is identified by the seller as Renato Averardo Ciriello.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
On the bench
This artwork is called Reactivacion by artist dprostock. It appears in this gallery on DeviantArt with other works including a few that are thematically similar.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
Hookah and bliss
This artwork is A Voluptuous Smoke by French artist Charles Édouard Delort. This page gives an 1867 date for the work, and says it was offered for sale in a Christie’s auction in 1988. A bit more information about Delort is available here.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.