Jacob Covey lives with his wife in Seattle, WA, where he works as Art Director at Fantagraphics Books. In his spare time, he collects original cartoon pin-up art and maintains the website His books include The Pin-Up Art of Dan DeCarlo (two volumes), The Pin-Up Art of Bill Wenzel, The Pin-up Art of Bill Ward, The Glamor Girls of Don Flowers, The Glamour Girls of Bill Ward, Classic Pin-Up Art of Jack Cole, and The Pin-Up Art of Humorama. art of Russell Patterson, is scheduled for. He also edits a series of art books for Fantagraphics. Bill Ward, The Classic Pin-Up Art of Jack Cole, The Pin-Up Art of Dan DeCarlo and The Pin-Up Art of Bill Wenzel. A former staff writer for the Los Angeles Daily Journal, he is currently a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times where he covers pop-culture. Without a doubt, Wenzel is the most overlooked of all the pin-up cartoon artists of his era, but with this volume, which features a selection of his sexiest and most sensual ink-wash images, Wenzel takes his rightful place among Humorama's top artists.Īlex Chun is a longtime journalist living in Los Angeles. Though wasp-waisted long-legged women were derigueur in the digests, Wenzel set himself apart from the rest of the best with his decidedly more Rubenesque rendering of the female form.
