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Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by Ken Rice from the story “Too Smart for Love” in Ten-Story Love #204, Sept. 1955. Ace Magazines. Curious to see more? Click the link to read the entire vintage comic book.
Transcript:
SCENE: Woman sitting at a desk, holding a piece of paper and a pencil. She’s thinking.
WOMAN: Gotta pump up my resume! Should I add sex kitten…or porn star?
1955 Art: Ken Rice New Inks & Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer with a Whip: John Lustig
Ten-Story Love204.5.1
or Ten-Story Love204.6.1
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SCENE: Woman sitting at a desk, holding a piece of paper and a pencil. She's thinking.
WOMAN: Gotta pump up my resume! Should I add sex kitten…or porn star?
1955 Art: Ken Rice New Inks & Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer with a Whip: John Lustig
Ten-Story Love204.5.1
or Ten-Story Love204.6.1
WOMAN: Gotta pump up my resume! Should I add sex kitten…or porn star?
1955 Art: Ken Rice New Inks & Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer with a Whip: John Lustig
Ten-Story Love204.5.1
or Ten-Story Love204.6.1
Her colours have leaked…
We all start leaking a bit as we get older…
Yes they did. But, as bad as it looks now, it looked a lot worse before I cleaned up the scan of the original published art. The colors were very, very off-register.
Quite honestly, I’m trying to spend less time on cleanup so that I have more time for other things. (I can spend anywhere from 20-75 minutes cleaning up art.) But some of the original are so off-register (or washed out) that it makes me cringe. So I usually put in some time correcting the worst aspects.
But it’s a little bit like eating cotton candy or potato chips. It’s hard to stop once you start. There’s always one more gaffe to fix.
If you fix them all, THEN what do we make fun of?
Add “Ecdysiast at Political Fundraisers”.
That is the fanciest word for “stripper” that I’ve ever seen!!!
It’s a term loosely adapted from biology. A snake and other animals, shed a layer of skin in one continuous piece, a process called ecdysis.
When I thought of political fundraiser stripper I was thinking of Trump Jr’s girlfriend who offered lap dances and hot tub parties at a political fundraiser.
I have a feeling that political fundraisers featuring what is loosely called adult entertainment are more common than we’d like to think.
If that doesn’t work she can always “pump” up the bosses er “sausage”.