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Good girl art, aka '''GGA''', is a term first coined by comic book dealers who inserted it in their sale lists to call attention to covers and panels showing sexy women in comics from Fiction House and other publishers. Later, use of the phrase expanded to indicate a style of artwork in which attractive female characters of comic books, cartoons and covers for digest magazines, paperbacks and pulp magazines are rendered in a lush manner and are shown in provocative (and sometimes very improbable) situations from jungles and beaches to bedrooms and Bondage . A strong influence on the movement was illustrator Rolf Armstrong (1889-1960), labeled the "Father of Good Girl Art" because of his creamy calendar art for Brown & Bigelow and iridescent illustrations for such magazines as '' American Weekly '', ''College Humor'', '' Life '', '' Judge '', '' Photoplay '', ''Pictorial Review'' and ''Woman's Home Companion'', along with his advertisements for Hires Root Beer, Palmolive, Pepsi, Oneida Silverware and other products. In his 2001 Collectors Press book, ''The Great American Paperback: An Illustrated Tribute to Legends of the Book'', Richard Lupoff defined GGA as: "A cover illustration depicting an attractive young woman, usually in skimpy or form-fitting clothing, and designed for erotic stimulation. The term does not apply to the morality of the 'good girl', who is often a gun moll, tough cookie or wicked temptress." During the peak period of comic book Good Girl Art, the 1940s to the 1950s , leading artists of the movement included Bill Ward (for his blonde Torchy) and Matt Baker . Arguably the king of Good Girl Art, Baker was one of the few African Americans working as an artist during the Golden Age of Comics. Today, Baker's rendition of Phantom Lady is considered a collectors item, and much of his GGA is sought after. AC Comics is a comic company known for their line of new and reprint comics featuring GGA, including ''Good Girl Art Quarterly'' and ''Good Girl Comics''. In 1985, , Mike Zeck and other artists. Dennis Beaulieu interviewed artist Richard Bassford about Wally Wood and Good Girl Art in issue 40 (Spring, 1996) of ''CFA-APA'', the publication of the Comic & Fantasy Art Amateur Press Association. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS |
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