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Robert K. Bishop
An American bondage artist. Born in Michigan, he has been compared with John Willie and described as the “Rembrandt of bondage art”. His work has been published extensively in bondage magazines, especially those of Centurians Publications and the bondage publisher House of Milan.
He committed suicide at the age of 46.
Miguel Bultó (Miguel Bultó Just)
The Spanish artist Miguel Bultó took over the artwork of the German ‘Nick Sonderband’ series from Hansrudi Wäscher from issue 6. He has also created erotic comics.
Floriano Bozzi (Sam Göspel)
Floriano Bozzi made his comic debut designing covers for the publisher Mondadori. In 1964 and 1965, he created ‘Joe Missouri’ and ‘I Magnifico Quatro’. The next year, he came up with his first erotic comics, launching heroines like Auranella, Bernada, and Jessica. In the seventies, he started using the pseudonym Sam Göspel and made an erotic adaptation of ‘The Three Musketeers’. In 1975, together with artists Mairani, Carcupino and Bertelli, he founded the publishing company La Vinciana, and started the series ‘Leonardo’.
Roberto Baldazzini
After getting his diploma as an expert in commerce, Roberto Baldazzini followed several art courses. In 1980, he co-founded the fanzine Pinguino, for which he created the character ‘Ronnie Fumoso’, from a text written by Daniele Brolli. His first professional work appeared in Orient Express magazine in 1980. This was the ‘Alan Hassad’ series, also written by Brolli. In 1984, his heroine ‘Stella Noris’ was born, out of a scenario by Lorena Canossa Baldazzini. This comic was continued until 1992 in Comic Art Magazine after the demise of Orient Express. At the same time, Baldazzini worked in the advertising field. From 1995 he starts a cooperation with Blue magazine, where he began focusing on erotic comics, featuring new characters like ‘Ginger & Rogers’, ‘Angela’ and ‘Chiara Rosenberg’. His graphic style plays with black and white, and his talent for depicting sensual women has made him a regular guest in several erotic magazines, such as Glamour, Blue, Diva, Penthouse Comix and Geisha.
Luciano Bernasconi
Luciano Bernasconi started out working for Carl Cedroni’s agency Barbato/Mancini, where he drew comics for Lug di Lione. In 1966 he illustrated the war series ‘Attak’ for Edizioni Europer di Roma. A year later, he expanded his activities with the series ‘Pappagone’ and ‘Ciccio e Franco’. In 1969 he became one of the major artists working for publisher Lug, where he started out with series like ‘Wampus’ and ‘Bob Lance’. During the 1970s his work was introduced in France. The immense list of series he created contains ‘L’Autre’, ‘Kabur’, ‘Waki’, ‘Bob Flay’, ‘Jeff Sullivan’, ‘Phenix’, ‘Kit Kappa’ and many, many more.
In 1979 he included another genre to his oeuvre, creating erotic porno comics for Edifumetto di Milano. After collaborating to a collective comic for Il Messaggero, he continued working in the erotic genre for Blue Press di Roma from 1989.
Birago Balzano
Birago Balzano drew the erotic vampire strip ‘Zora’ in the 1970s. He also illustrated episodes of ‘Il Capitan Miki’ and ‘Un Regazzo nel Far-West’.
Jacques Boivin
Jacques Boivin is the artist of the erotic comic ‘Mélody’, that appeared at Kitchen Sink Press from 1988. The comic was created three years earlier, when exotic dancer Sylvie Rancourt created a comics alter-ego for herself. The Boivin version of the comic was a big hit. Ten issues appeared, as well as the book collection ‘The Orgies of Abitibi’.
