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   Rob C on April 1, 2019 at 3:12 am

   I don’t know which I like better, the original or your take.

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     John on April 1, 2019 at 4:20 am

     A double header!

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   Dave Dell on April 1, 2019 at 6:56 am

   The shape of that skull…That face… The stuff of a horror comic artists dreams. Was Bill Ward work usually like that?

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     Rudolf vonLuchen on April 1, 2019 at 10:51 am

     William Hess Ward, known as Bill Ward, was an American cartoonist notable as a good girl artist and creator of the risqué comics character Torchy.

     If you want to see some of his more typical work, do an internet image search on “Bill Ward Art.”

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     John on April 1, 2019 at 11:36 am

     I think this is a rather extreme example of Ward’s tendency to draw “Torchy” with that head shape. Not unique, though. Torchy was a humorous feature and Ward drew her more cartoony than some of his other comic work.

     Ward’s work became even more cartoony and the women he drew became even more bizarre (and top heavy) later in his career when he was mostly drawing mild-to-raunchy gag illustrations for men’s magazines. That is probably what he’s best remembered for these days.

     Here’s a nice “comic book” piece, though, that he did in the later part of his career:

     https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/covers/bill-ward-overstreet-comic-book-price-guide-8-cover-painting-original-art-bob-overstreet-1978-/a/7147-92230.s

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     John on April 1, 2019 at 11:42 am

     And here’s an even nicer piece from his romance comics period:
     http://www.wwcomics.com/comicdetail.asp?Product_ID=HeartThrobs_1_17036

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