BACCOMIX
08-25-2006, 06:25 PM
Late in the eighties I was contacted by an Italian artists rep. We struck up a deal. (Not a very lucrative deal. Actually it was more of a steal.) He told me that there was a big market for this type of work in Italy and Europe and that he woud be happy to represent me over their.
From this deal "There's No Business Like Toe Business" was published in a European men's mag called Blue Bizzare. With that batch of work I sent him a photo of this illustration. It later appeared in a soft cover book DIVA
Bondage that was published by a company called Glittering Images.
I was cruizing the news stand one day and saw the publication. I flipped through and almost coughed up a lung. There was my work featured among some of the illustrators that I considered my idols. Betty Page, Irving Klaw, Eneg, Bill Ward, Jim, John Willie and Franco Saudelli. I felt like I had really made it. I was still starving but I had made it.
Through the wonders of Photoshop I have cleaned this one up a bit for mass consumption. But the theme is still the same
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/3497/readyornot2ni9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
From this deal "There's No Business Like Toe Business" was published in a European men's mag called Blue Bizzare. With that batch of work I sent him a photo of this illustration. It later appeared in a soft cover book DIVA
Bondage that was published by a company called Glittering Images.
I was cruizing the news stand one day and saw the publication. I flipped through and almost coughed up a lung. There was my work featured among some of the illustrators that I considered my idols. Betty Page, Irving Klaw, Eneg, Bill Ward, Jim, John Willie and Franco Saudelli. I felt like I had really made it. I was still starving but I had made it.
Through the wonders of Photoshop I have cleaned this one up a bit for mass consumption. But the theme is still the same
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/3497/readyornot2ni9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)