Learn more (copy & paste): /2018/03/sweeter-gwen-is-back-eric-stantons. The new book Possibilities: The Photos of John Willie contains upward of 1 300 photos taken by Willie in Australia New York and Los Angeles between 1937 and.
This special edition was reconstructed from archival material, correcting earlier printings and designed to display the risqué humor of Stanton's art. Stanton's pencils were inked by Steve Ditko, who also contributed some original art, while the two toyed with the creation of Spider-Man in the spring of 1962. And yet even with all this slapstick, Stanton's female leads, including the imperious Countess, the pliant Gaga and the innocent Gwen, are as gorgeous as any he's ever drawn, and the fetish wear, bondage play, and femme-on-femme fights are as rousing as ever. Stanton delivers a Mad magazine-like sendup of Willie's original, complete with Will Elder-like funny business.
Eric Stanton's personal favorite comic caper was also a loving (if crackpot) homage to John Willie's legendary damsel-in-distress creation, Sweet Gwendoline. John Willie is the author of The Adventures of Sweet Gwendoline, 2nd Edition (4.21 avg rating, 43 ratings, 5 reviews, published 1974), The Best of Bizarr. It was translated into French, German and Italian, and was also made into a movie, The Perils of Gwendoline (1984, directed by Just Jaeckin).This revised edition was published on December 9, 1999, the birthday of 'John Willie', as well as the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of the first edition.
