OK, there are possibly tons of vintage images at flickr and this is just one. I was mesmerized by a series of promotional photos of Jane Mansfield and Marilyn Monroe, for "Gentlemen Prefer Blonds". If you love old photos of yesterday's stars, you'll love Lucky Star's photo stream at Flickr.

Tags: Vintage images, Jane Mansfield, Marilyn Monroe, Gentlemen Prefer Blonds, yesterday's stars

After writing last week’s cheesecake article, I was challenged at Digg, to find the beefcake twins. Knowing how hard it is to find beefcake at all, I rose to the challenge.

Where’s the beefcake?!

Apparently there just isn’t as much demand for male twins as female twins. This sailor image is the only vintage image I could find and it’s quite uninspired. I mean, this photo is so asexual could have been taken by their mother!

Fear not, my beefcake twin hungry mongrels! I’ve managed to hunt down a few modern day beefcake. It seems that twins have more fun than regular male models. Maybe it’s in the already playful nature of a twin photo shoot? Who knows.


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Tags: Beefcake Twins, Male model twins, sailor twins, The Stoltzfus Twins, Bruce Weber, Aaron and Shawn Ashmore, Keith and Derek Brewer, Jason and Joseph Barbera, Jason and Jeremy London, Twin actors, 1980's, Latino twins, Lane and Kyle Carlson, Portugal, Pedro and Ricardo Guedes, Pedro and Ricardo Guedes, Brazil, Flávio and Gustavo Mendonça

Comic Vine is an interactive wiki site for all super hero comics lovers. In relevance to our pinup dealings, you might find the Attractive Female List. This list doesn't just rank many female comic heroines, but it let's yo vote, too! Of course, every image leads to the character's page, with information, images and covers of the volumes the character has appeared in. Other than that, the site has a blog, reviews and updates when new editions come out.

Tags: Comic Vine, Attractive Female List, super hero comics, female comic heroines

Are you a pinup lover with the means? A passionate collector of retro girlie art? Do you want to be one, but just don't know where to find it? Pin-Up Ferret may just be able to solve your problem. This site is dedicated to collecting pinup merchandise. You can find album books at the Pin-Up Ferret Store or lithographs, postcards and prints, at the Auctions page. Clean and to the point, Pin-Up Ferret is the place to keep track of pinup auctions.

Tags: cheesecake Auctions, pinup collector, Pin-Up Ferret

You’re not seeing double. This list compiles pinup twins from around the world and across history.

Like the bunny and the exotic dancer, the fantasy of twins has always been out there. Twins photograph incredibly, and automatically call to mind additional meaning to an image. Smart photographers and painters utilized their rarity in order to create a stunning image. I’m leaving the sexual stuff out of this list, as alluring as it may appear it’s incest and I’m just not that kind of blogger.

The Vintage Twins that Launched a Thousand Words

Not much is known about Edward D'Ancona, who very possibly had a severe book fetish. This pinup isn’t dated, and all we can assume is that it was painted between the mid 1930-1960, the years he was known to be an active calendar artist. That’s a big gap, and the painting doesn’t clue us in to much. Seeing as these glamor girls are naked, the only thing I could go by is the hair, which looks right about the right length and styling to be between the 1940-1950. But again, I don’t know for sure, so feel free to enlighten us with an email or comment, if you know better.

This is the pinup that inspired this article, because...
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Tags: Double Happiness, Retro Pinup Twins, Vintage twins, Greg Hildebrandt, Edward D'Ancona, Dahm Triplets, 1940, Allison Evans and Jessica Henry, Forniphilia, Playboy Twins, The Bentley sisters, Patrick Nagel, 1980's, 1950, objectification, 1960, Beauty Calender, Losing innocence, chinese pinup girls, 1970, Vespa Twins

I've always said retro is for all shapes and sizes. Lately I've stumbled on Torrid, which is a U.S. wide clothing chain for the big and beautiful. Now they're online, as well. And really, the pictures say it all. A lot of thought goes into these designs, and although Torrid isn't all retro, it's got a lot of it. Even though it has nothing to do with size, Torrid got me with their crazy feathered hats, I'm definitely ordering me one of those!

Tags: Torrid, Plus-size Pinups, Flare, retro hats

Brenda's Babes: A Pin-Up Collection was started by a pinup collector by the name of Brenda, who entered an online video contest, to win $20,000. All this happened over a year ago and Brenda won the $20,000, but she hasn't updated since. We lucky pinup lovers, however, are left with about four months of Brenda's constant pinup posts. It's a charming time capsule, go ahead and take a look. (Maybe if enough of us visit, Brenda will reconsider and return to blog about pin-up babes )

Tags: pin-up babes, Brenda's Babes: A Pin-Up Collection, pinup collector, pinup lovers, pinup posts

This football fanatic is just as ambitious as the team!

I won't tell you how this glamor gal got on the uprights, I can only say she's very ambitious. She's not a player, but she is a fan, and ambitious fans are just as important as ambitious players. Whether you're a player or a team member, this naughty redhead is ready to help you get you in the spirit of the game. And since it's just as important to have supporters, as it is players, The Pinup Shop is supporting in its typical retro fashion.
























Show your support and click on the item of your choice:





Showing some sexy support,

Tags: Touchdown, The Pinup Shop, Football fanatic, glamor gal, naughty redhead, Team spirit, American game, retro fashion

Visual artists can’t hide behind their work, at some point, some one will notice, a fetish, a habit a quirk. Missing belly buttons, fake breasts, detached heads- This is a list of the 10 most fucked up pinups in classic cheesecake history.

No disrespect to these wonderful artists- as an artist myself- I know how much it sucks to be told “you missed a spot”. These details, however, are part of pinup history, and quite an idiosyncratic part, at that. I hope you enjoy this quirky look at fine pinup art.

#10 Alberto Vargas’ Pointed Nails

Alberto Vargas’ work is practically flawless. It’s skillfully executed and unfathomably beautiful. Vargas has many fetishes, but this tiny detail is so idiosyncratic and mysterious, and it repeats every single time! Pointed nails are in every Vargas image, without exception! What can this mean? Is it a catwoman thing? Is it an esthetic preference? Is Vargas flirting with danger? What do you think?


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Tags: Visual artists, pinup history, Carlos Diez, Damsels in Distress, Alberto Vargas, White Haired Goddesses, George Petty, Gravity Defying Breasts, Peter Driben, Big Breasts, Frank Frazetta, Nipples, Gil Elvgren, Big Butts, Hubert De Lartigue, Lorenzo Di Mauro, Puckered Lips, Greg Hildebrandt, Pointed Nails, Elizabeth Austin

Today I have a budding pinup site for you. I practically fell on the floor, when I saw Dead Sexy Pinups. It may be young, but it's right! Dead Sexy Pinups is the place to check out neo pinups, From photography, to the models to cartoon pinups.

Dedicated to surfacing modern pinup art and culture, here's an excerpt from Mark Wasyl's (The blog's author and a pinup artist in his own right) manifesto:

The idea behind Dead Sexy Pinups is to create a website featuring a new generation of hottie...the Modern Pinup. While still paying homage and respect to the pinups of the last century, here you'll find more of what's happening with the Pinups of today. These girls have a bit more Attitude, are part Rock n Roll and come with the occasional "oh so sexy" touches of ink.

Tags: Dead Sexy Pinups, neo pinup model, cartoon pinups, Mark Wasyl

Once again, my StumbleUpon friends come through. Charlene Chua is an acclaimed vector illustrator, but more importantly, a modern day pinup artist. She does a lot of commercial work, witch you can take a look at, at her online gallery, but my personal favorites are her vector cheesecake, which have their own gallery. Chua's vector cheesecake is thematically modern, so you'll find illustrations that run between the sex object, the sports woman and the super ninja, but always in the fun loving, colorful Chua style. And if you love the extras on a dvd, check out Chua's blog, for sketches, doodles and fine pencil works.

Tags: Charlene Chua, Modern Vector Cheesecake Illustrations, pinup artist

Desperately looking for pinups in the undergrounds of Israel, I managed to completely overlook Nir Hod, part of the upper-ground art scene, in Israel.

Nir Hod is a young, yet established Israeli artist. His main visual focus is in dramatic, erotic kitsch, and his thematic focuses are life, death and beauty. Women and androgynous men are often represented in his art.

I’m not a fan of Hod’s, I don’t like his drama, nor his vain self-obsession, but I love a beautiful image and a job well done, and that’s something he produces in abundance.








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Tags: military bombshell, Nir Hod, Post Modern Pinups, Israeli artist, Forever, retro kitsch, narcissist beefcake, sexual icons, Erotic kitsch, Women in uniform, androgynous, sexualized female cadet, Israel Art Scene, effeminate soldier beefcake

Yes! It's the real deal! Genuine pinup art of the early 2000's. This lovely Chupa Chups ad was made by Kim Governali. Unfortunately, I don't know much about the artist. I can only assume that she's a woman. As always, if you know anything, I'm down on hands and knees, begging you to let us know, by email or via the comment section of this article.
The good news is, this little piece of eye candy in just one part of a 5-piece series!

Tags: Kim Governali, Chupa Chups, Eye Candy, 2000