This list is always growing, so I'd appreciate any additional information on these artists that people can provide or a short bio and info of artists who've made a major contribution that I may have overlooked.


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  Alazar   1970s - current   Alazar came onto the erotic art scene over 20 years ago, producing bondage, fetish and pinup art work for the steamiest publications. His renderings of women were distinctive and sensual, and soon his original art work was being collected and commissioned internationally. For the past 15 years Alazar has done monthly pin ups for Leg Show Magazine, (& is still featured monthly in Alazar's Panty Peeks) as well as doing illustrations for other adult publications. He has had work collected into 12 comic books by Fantagraphics, including the big selling Women on Top (7 times reprinted), Big Top Bondage, and the 6 issue Alazar Bondage Series.    
    Aldo   1970s - current   Painter of transgender works about whom little is known. He appears to have used the names "Tealdo" and "Europa" at various times, and has had a long-time publishing history with Centurians Magazines, setting the standard for "Forced Womanhood" and like magazines, from back when the magazine began, under the title "Slave Piercing."    
(see Bishop)   (J.) Ashely   (b. 1945 - d. 1991)   An alias for Robert Bishop (below), using a different style when doing illustrated covers and interiors for the "Fellowes" series of Frank E. Campbell novels produced by House of Milan in the '70s and '80s. Worked in pencil, yielding rich textures and highly detailed historical European costumes and settings.   (see Bishop)
  Robert K. Bishop   (b. 1945 - d. 1991)   Michigan-born illustrator who studied art in Detroit (Michigan Art School), and started doing art for Centurians Publications, and other assorted early-Scene magazines. He joined up with House Of Milan (HOM -- he also did some side work with Harmony Publications, but had some concerns with the cautiously consensual "Harmony Philosophy" as it pertained to fiction), and it was with HOM that he produced much of his best-known work, including the "Fanny Hall" comic series, and covers for Frank Campbell and Geoffrey Merrick novels. He was quite reclusive, and an avid gun collector. Sadly, he took his own life, at the age of 46. Often referred to only as "Bishop," he is best known for his black and white work, with a heavy use of airbrush to generate texture and sheen. Considered by many to be the Master of bondage illustration, his work commonly features hapless women, straining against their bonds, heavily gagged, and wearing latex. He had done some paintings (very skillfully, with vibrant use of color), plus some FemDom works, but appears to have had little interest in the latter.   Bishop art Yahoo Groups 1 and 2
    Vaughn Bode   1970s-1990s   Underground comix cartoonist who began with adult comics in 1969, when "Deadbone" first appeared in Swank Magazine. His "Purple Pictography" appeared in the early seventies (sometimes with guest art by Berni Wrightson), and he went on to do comics such as "Junkwaffle" and "Cheech Wizard." His work is characterized by cute, plump figures, in all manner of scenarios.    
    Carlo   1920s-1940s   There is virtually nothing known about this illustrator, whose style evokes a 1920s feel to it. His comics are wonderfully bawdy, burlesque tales of bondageand humiliation, often featuring ponygirls and other lavish costumed damsels. Also used the name Charléno.    
    Cavelo   ?   An artist with whom I am unfamiliar.    
    Demulatto   current   A pencil artist who produced work from 1966 to 1985 for Bizarre Library and Love Magazine. He still does custom works.    
    Dolcett   current   Dolcett is an Internet-based B&W snuff artist, who features things like asphyxiation, cannibalism, impalement and such.    
    Loic Dubigeon   current   Graphic artist who works mostly in pencil. His work is collected in "Sweet Submission" Volumes I and II.    
    Eneg (Gene Bilbrew)   b. 1923 - d. 1974   Los Angeles-born illustrator also known as Van Rod and Bondy. He began his fetish comic work in the late '40s and early '50s, producing strips for Irving Klaw's Movie Star News, after working for the Will Eisner Comic Book Studio. Eric Stanton -- who he'd met while attending Burne Hogarth's School of Visual Arts -- may have first introduced him to Irving Klaw. He largely set the standard that other fetish comics illustrators followed. As with many of the Movie Star News artists (Jim, Ruiz), the strips from the period he is best known for are few and far between, scattered among the hidden collections of his fans, as few of the originals have survived. He also drew for Fantasia, Exotique and Nutrix, and did forced-feminization art for the latter, although his bondage work is best remembered.   Bélier Press
    Joseph Farrel   current   French pencil artist who often ventured into nonconsensual fiction, with extreme torture and humiliation subjects and sometimes featuring younger victims. His work is richly detailed with dramatic expressions and period costumes. His pieces are often sequential, following a story progression, but the only stories known to accompany them have been written after the fact. In the past, Farrel has considered his art a minor trifle, and appears surprised by the attention it is getting.    
    Jim   1940s-1960s   Swiss comic artist who did sequential illustrated serials for Irving Klaw starting in 1955.   Nero's art, Bélier Press and Doggers
    Lou Kagan   1980s - current   Artist who did work in several HOM magazines and published several comics, including the serialized "Cassandra's Web," "Manor De Sade," "Vanda and the Amazons," and "Perils of Penelope." He also proved himself a great photographer with the HOM series, "Glamour In Bondage." In recent years, he has added shemale bondage and forced feminization to his repertoire, with paintings in Forced Womanhood Magazine and the comic "Lady Lovelock."    
    Esteban Maroto   1960s - 1980s   (b. 1942) Spanish Illustrator whose portfolio ranged from DC Comics to Heavy Metal Magazine. His early work defined "Vampirella" and other EC publications. Worked closely with Carlos Gimenez.   SQP & Therion
  Moebius   1960s - current   French cartoonist Jean Girard (a.k.a. Gir) whose work frequently strays into the erotic, with voyeuristic and sometimes sadomasochistic overtones. He has also designed visuals for several movies, such as "The Fifth Element."    
    Yoji Muku   b. 1928 - d. 2001   Japanese railroader and salesman from Osaka who was also a self-taught artist and editor of a Japanese BDSM magazine. He wrote and drew comics under the name Toyonaka Yumeo, and is the illustrator who created many of the Japanese bondage drawings found online with "Hunt" or "JBD" file names.    
    Georges Pichard   b. 1920 - d. 07June2003   Renowned French artist whose works include "Madoline," "The Road to Repentence," "The Countess in Red" "The Illustrated Kama Sutra" and "Marie-Gabrielle."    
    Prim  

1970s - 1990s (poss. still current)

   British transgender artist of the 1970s and 1980s, published mostly through Swish Publications. His work has filtered down through ground-level TG press, often uncredited, and is typified by '40s fashion, petticoats and boyish (i.e. short-haired) teens. Art was more of a hobby for Prim, and the level of completion of his works vary, but he's still considered an inspiration for modern TG artists, many of whom don't even know the artist's name.    
    Ruiz   1950s - 1970s   Serial comic artist who drew for Irving Klaw's Movie Star News, along with Jim, Eneg, Eric Stanton and others.   Bélier Press
    Serajat       Belgian artist of the 1950s, with mostly black-and-white pencil work.    

(Stanton Archives has closed)

   Eric Stanton   b. 30Sept1926 - d. 17Mar1999   (Ernest Stanzoni) Reclusive Brooklyn-born illustrator and painter who began drawing while in the U.S. Navy during WWII. Upon his return, he worked as a dancing waiter and then had a knife-throwing act, before bragging to Irving Klaw that he could draw better than all of Klaw's artists. Klaw liked his moxie, and hired him for the work produced by Movie Star News, starting in 1947. He may also have led the way for his friend Gene Bilbrew to start work at MSN shortly after (see Eneg). Stanton produced many fighting-women and bondage classics (both male and female submissives but usually female dominants) plus a few transgender tales. He contributed to the infamous Kinsey Report and began his own mail-order business, The Stanton Archives, as well as illustrating novel covers and magazine interiors for publishers such as Nutrix, Leg Show and Satellite -- several of these works later appeared in Centurians publications, and he may have also done original works for them as well. He created "Blunder Broad," a classic Wonder Woman spoof, and she is his best-known character. Although he hasn't had the career peaks of other artists, he has had probably the longest career in fetish art and by far the largest body of work, which is nearly impossible to entirely catalogue. A man with a definite love and devotion to the genre, his work shows an incredible ability to tell a story (something that often goes unappreciated in a genre full of pin-ups) -- and each illustration told volumes. Often collaborated with writer Turk Winter, and has had several collections, including four by Italian publisher Glittering Images and two by Taschen.   Doggers site and Bélier Press
  Brian Tarsis   1970s - current   Brian Tarsis has been an artist and creator of kink for sixteen years and counting. He started out doing freelance bondage illustrations in 1984 for Harmony. In '87 he moved to L.A. and worked for Harmony full time, tying up girls, editing magazines, doing photo shoots, directing and shooting videos, and sundry other duties. In 1990 he went to work for H.O.M. and its parent company, London Video, shooting, directing and editing B&D videos. Six years and 150 videos later, he left H.O.M. to work for B&D Pleasures, making magazines and comics. Throughout his career, he has never stopped drawing, and his illustrations range from bondage to spanking to SM, and have been published all over the world. He has also published two graphic novels, City of Dreams (from Eros Comics) and Daphne (from B&D Pleasures), and has two more on the way (watch for Opal and Valeria!). Brian currently lives in the lush forests of the northwest with his wife/slavegirl Devon. He and Devon aren't as active in the SM scene as they were in L.A., but they get out once in a while, and have a well-appointed dungeon of their own for those rainy nights at home.    
    Tom   b. 02March1927 - d. Fall98   German black and white rubber crafter, photographer and illustrator in the tradition of Jim and Eneg (in fact, he first started doing fetish cartoons for Irving Klaw's Nutrix fetish series), noted for shiny, polished latex, insidiously dominant women and hapless, stringently-bound heroines. His work (often assisted by wife and model Uschi) has appeared in his own Club Caprice, several catalogues, Skin Two, Marquis and innumerable other various latex and bondage publications. Too often though, his work has also been exploited, without his credit or any sort of royalties.    
  Tom of Finland   b. 8May20 - d. 7Nov91   Finnish illustrator Touko Laaksonen (his real name) was a champion of gay (primarily male) art, with a fascination for uniforms that helped define the gay leather culture of the '80s. He was a freelance artist in advertising, and published his first erotic work in 1957, with the cover of Physique Pictorial magazine. His popularity grew and by the mid-70s, he was able to earn a living with his erotic work alone, but several personal setbacks befell him, until his death from an emphysema-induced stroke. His foundation still supports gay art worldwide.   EroticArts
  Bill Ward   b. 06March 1919 - d. 17Nov98   Comic artist who started as a background artist for Fawcett Publications, then Quality, moving on to titles like "Captain Marvel" and "Blackhawk" during comics' Golden Age. His most popular character, Torchy, was developed while at war, in the U.S. Navy, and proved to be a major source of inspiration to troops during WW II -- until the post-war crusade of Frederic Wertham brought the character to an end. A major contributor to venues like "Cracked" Magazine, his work never really achieved recognition as a watershed of fetish art until much later.    
    John Willie   b. 09Dec1902 - d. 05Aug1962   (John Alexander Scott Coutts) Publisher of Bizarre magazine (beginning in 1946), the first fetish magazine. New York-based photographer, writer, artist and editor, also known as the cartoonist who gave us Sweet Gwendoline. He printed 26 issues, developed a brain tumor, and ceased to publish.   Bélier Press