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Good girl art ('''GGA''') is found in drawings or paintings which feature a strong emphasis on attractive women no matter what the subject or situation. GGA was most commonly featured in Comic Book s, Pulp Magazine s and Crime Fiction . When cited as an art movement, it is usually capitalized as '''Good Girl Art'''. DEFINITION The term "Good girl art" describes the work of illustrators skilled at creating sexy female figure art; it is the art which is "good", not the girl. Popular culture historian Richard A. Lupoff defined it as The term was first coined by comic book dealers who inserted it into their sale lists to highlight specific panels and covers and panels with sexy women in comic books 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 . HISTORY 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. .]] 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. PUBLICATIONS In 1985, Bill Pearson edited and published ''Good Girls'', a collection of artwork by himself, Frank Frazetta , Roy Krenkel , Bob McLeod , Victor Perard (author of ''Anatomy and Drawing'' and ''How to Draw''), Wally Wood , Mike Zeck and other artists. Since 1990, AC Comics has published 19 issues of his ''Good Girl Art Quarterly'' (incorporating several issues of ''Good Girl Comics''), featuring a mix of photos and new comics with reprints of vintage stories. In addition to Baker, Black, Frazetta, Ward and Wood, the artists in this series include Nina Albright, Chris Allen, Nick Alton, Dick Ayers , Frank Bolle , Gill Fox , Brad Gorby, Mark Heike, Chad Hunt, Ed Lane, Steve LeBlanc, Bob Lubbers, Jack Kamen , Billie Marimon, Mark Moore, Ralph Mayo, Pete Morisi , Rudy Palais, Nick Poliwko, Bob Powell , Richard Rome and Maurice Whitman. FOOTNOTES REFERENCES
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