FlashParade is a
magnificent artist, who does a lot of
what can be easily classified cartoon
pinup art. The artist’s cute subjects
are very feminine and dynamic, and loads
of fun. Good art and good pinup. Enjoy!
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Over two years of The Pinup Blog and,
surprisingly enough, we’ve yet to touch on a
very pinup-esque theme: The zodiac.
Women as allegory
came up in last
week’s post. Today is all allegory
with Zodiac Pinups. Though traditionally
woman have been used in the images of the
Virgo sign and often Aquarius, this week,
we’ll be focusing on complete series of
women as zodiac signs.
#10 Fantasy Zodiac Pinups
Probably what you’d
most expect to see out of a woman zodiac
series, but surprisingly not the most
commonly found on the net. Soft and
meticulous fantasy art, with kitschy
mystical touches. It’s less overtly sexy
and focuses more on femininity.
Something for the whole family
In dramatic scene, tough and even evil,
it’s the sexy Easter bunny fantasy gone
awry.
One of the most
common fantasies in cyber space, the
sexy bunny, has endless Google results.
While the typical sexy Easter bunny is
just a poster girl, on the sweet side
and often a Playboy cliche, I’ve run
into a more fetishistic bunny, this
year, which I’m more than glad to share
with you.
Here’s something for
you vintage world explorers. Komiklopedia is a
brilliant site dedicated to vintage
Philippine comics and memorabilia. There’s
lots of buffed up beefcake and distressed
cheesecake to see, so take your time and
enjoy the ride around the globe!
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You never know where you may find
yourself, so don’t go out without that pinup
fix in your pocket!
It seems pinups
are not only objects to pin up, but also made
to fit right in your pocket. The Pinup Blog
has compiled a list of 10 essential pocket
pinups, you can take anywhere!
Oh, the wonders of
the internet! While cruising around
LiveJournal, I found the lovely SushiKitten59.
Her specialty?
Anthropomorphic neo pinups! You’ve got
your tatoos, your piercings, your bondage
gear and your... tail! Save the squirrels!
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The Pinup Blog is ecstatic to create a
tribute to the Gibson Girl. And it’s about
time, too!
By the end of the
19th
century, Charles Dana Gibson conjured up
the “Gibson Girl”. The Gibson Girl, in a
sense, was a byproduct of Gibson’s
satire work, but her beauty overpowered
the American audience and she soon
became the first national standard for
feminine beauty, in America. Her
distinct style made her iconic, and her
signature big hair and hourglass figure
are easily recognizable.
The new year is upon us and so are the
calender girls!
Calenders are the
traditional display method for pinups. What’s
new in 2010? Many good causes and a lot of
good art. Ladies and gents, I give you The
Pinup Blog’s top 10 pinup calenders!
#10 Vintage Cowgirl Pinups Wall
Calendar
CafePress is full of pinup calenders and it
was hard to choose between them. We start our
list off with this
themed vintage cowgirl calender. Each
image is a collage, mixing up classic pinup
cowgirl with typography and some vintage
ornaments. Simple and sweet.
Winter is upon us and it’s time for the
pinups to cover up! (Or at least hold an
umbrella...)
It’s getting cold
and grey in my part of the world, and I’d
like to greet the coming season with all the
beautiful winter pinups (and beefcake) I
could find.
The Baseballs - Umbrella
Cover
It’s great to start with a little Rockabilly
beefcake. The Baseballs are a German
Rock’n’Roll cover band. They take modern hits
and turn them into 50’s styled hits. This is
their Version of Rihanna’s Umbrella.
Lauren Moore creates
these meticulously designed and diverse
cartoon pinups, which just happen to
make fantastic stocking stuffers. So
keep them in mind, because I know you’re
already doing your Christmas shopping in
the US. For your convenience this
holiday season, you can find Lauren’s
Hellcat Honeys here and
also here.
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It’s a tough
search, but somebody’s got to do it! For some
reason, turkeys are not the typical animal to
accompany a pinup image. Nevertheless, I’ve
managed to find some pro-turkey holiday
cheesecake!
Classic Pinups- A Vegan Peek at
Sexualized Speciesism
I thought we’d
first take a look at the problem. Yes, they
are gorgeous, and girl-next-doorsy, and
goddamnit- that’s Marilyn Monroe! But I can
only hope that the classic pinups with this
message have gone extinct:
Is
that a carcass on your platter,
Umm… Is this
theLeave
it to
Lady, You could be Marilyn
or are you just happy to see me?
Turkeyset?
Monroe, for all I care, just
get the gun outta my face!
This meticulously
drawn, wacky, neo pinup was created by
the phenomenal Brian M.
Viveros. Dark femme fatals with
bondage gear and random accessories are
the name of the game, and the results, as
seen here, are stunning. I couldn’t help
but compare with Jaime Hewlette’s Tank
Girl, of which I’m a huge fan, so this
is double fun for me, and I hope for you,
too.
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One of my favorite
creators at DeviantART, Elias
Chatzoudis, has just created this
little busty statement, in favor of breast
cancer awareness, missing my
article by less than a week. So I
decided to pay him tribute, after the
fact. It’s a beautiful cartoon pinup and
deserves our awareness.
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This was not the first time men had
admired pin-ups of physically non-existent
fantasy women, but certainly the first time
they would ogle a 3D
representative.
Although
video game pin-ups have existed since
the revival of interest in consol games,
in the mid 1980s, most consisted of
cartoonish depictions of various scenes
representing the game’s story line; Such
as Nintendo’s hero, Link, from the
popular Legend of Zelda franchise,
slaying a multi-headed dragon, or a
whimsical forest scene of Sega’s Sonic
the Hedgehog. The classic pin-up genre
featuring suggestively posed women was
introduced to video game art posters in
1996 with the inception of the British
company, Eidos’s Tomb Raider series,
starring who can now be credited as the
first massively popular digital sex
icon, Lara Croft.
Breast cancer isn’t a very lighthearted
theme, but if there’s one theme that’s
perfect for pinups, it’s their tits. This
week (this month to be exact) on The Pinup
Blog: Pinups and breast cancer
awareness!
Rethink Breast Cancer
Starting out with a little retro fun, here is
Rethink
Breast Cancer’s ad for the Fashion
Targets Breast Cancer t-shirt. Both
organizations are aimed at young adults;
While Rethink Breast Cancer are
responsible for some controversial
ads, Fashion Targets Breast Cancer
have super-model spokeswomen, the likes
of Gisele Caroline Bündchen and Claudia
Schiffer.
It’s The Pinup Shop’s and Blog’s second
birthday and it’s time for the top 10
articles, you pinup lovers loved the most! I
won’t spoil it for you, I’m just proud to say
that diversity dominates this list.
Before we start,
here’s a personal celebration message from me
to my beloved readers (courtesy of RattleBox):
While the wholesome folks at Disney
keep our children at a safe distance from
luscious cleavages and male nipples, you
guys go back home and elaborate on the
fantasy. This week on The Pinup Blog:
Brilliant, sensual, Disney pinups!
The up and coming
Princess and the Frog, reminded me of
all the times I saw an elaboration on a
Disney character. Disney’s men and women
become icons and are instantly
recognizable, thus making for fantastic,
sexy pastiche. But before we delve into
the world of R-rated Disney mock-ups,
let’s take a look at Disney’s own
subliminal sex appeal, to the left. It’s
amazing what context can do.
You gotta love a Disney pinup. Always
proper, tits never too big for her
waist line, big innocent eyes,
virginal. Even with those restrictions,
Disney always manages to get away with
a hefty cleavage, but this year, they
took it up a notch with The Princess
and the Frog. Stepping it up with the
sexual innuendoes, and my favorite bit-
diversity. The story is based in New
Orleans of the 1920’s, which makes for
a rather shameful historical
inaccuracy. On the other hand, Disney
has a bit of a shortage of ethnic
heros, so the randomness of the
princess’ ethnicity (unlike Princess
Jasmine or Mulan) is very refreshing.
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Artist and
visual designer, Wendy Ding,
created the fantastic Food Girl
series. A whimsical batch of pinup
images, involving food. This one
is by far my favorite, as the
Pringles become accessories of a
fan dance, and if you don’t look
carefully, you may miss the chip
Check out Ding’s
beautiful style at her website
and read the theory behind the Food
Girls series in this
fascinating interview.
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It’s actually more rare than you
think. The teacher fetish is a classic
fantasy, but when you look for classic
images, you might be surprised.
The teacher
fetish is one of those natural
occurrences. Young boys, in their
teens, won’t be able to ignore the
refreshing sight of a good looking
educator. If a boy was lucky
enough to actually have an
attractive teacher, odds are he’ll
remember her fondly, for years to
come. Thus the teacher fetish is
born. I made every effort to avoid
porn and keep it classy. It’s a
challenge, but someone’s got to do
it.
We’ll start off with a vintage
soundtrack, to get you in the mood:
Frankie Avalon’s Teacher’s Pet:
“Since the dawn of time, the
promise of our charms has been used to
urge our men into battle. We are called
up to rally behind our troops, and to
give the boys something to take their
minds off their job: WAR. Those times
are over.”
These lovely
words are those of Pinups for
Peace. A grassroots organization
promoting peace with a sexy, retro
edge. You don’t need much to be
pinup for peace, just show up at
your nearest love-fest,
demonstration, or strike, wearing
your nylons and garters and hold up
the sign:
“Burlesque not Bombs!”
The group’s site shows that there
hasn’t been much activity since 2008.
As my readers know, this cause is dear
to my heart, so I thought I’d give it a
boost, and remind all you pretty ladies
to get out there and fight for
something that’s really worth it!
Beach balls, ice cream and polka
dots. Today’s post is all lighthearted
fun, with a lineup of my 10 favorite
summer pinups!
#10 Pinup Girls of
Summer
Aerosmith’s videos are full of naughty
girls not giving a fuck. Here’s the
version of this narrative, updated for
the 21st century, to
get you in the mood
What does Elvgren’s girl next door
have to do with Masuimi Max’s tattoos?
It’s all a web of pinupology. Watch the
evolution as it happens!
The pinup girl
evolution isn't, a linear one.
Like most genres of art, each
school would interpret it
differently, geography would
change the aesthetics, and post
modernism- and much more recently-
the pluralism of the internet
would implode any possibility of
linearism. My goal then, in this
article, is not to create a time
line, but to follow the
evolutionary branching out of the
rare and beautiful species-The
pinup.
They come in all known genres and
fetishes, the only difference is that
you can’t pin them up. Introducing
pinup sculptures.
Pinups have been named as such, for
their function rather than their
content. Today, however, I think it’s
safe to say that pinup is more than
something you… well... pin up. It’s
fashion statement, it’s an aesthetic,
it’s a lifestyle. And now, it’s highly
stylized and glossy sculpture!
Above, you can view the damn fine work
of Mike James. A
multi faceted artist, James does
photography and drawings, as well.
His sculptures are an idealized
blend of cute and muscular.
A great single
find on Euphoria
Magazine. The page is filled
with fantastic retro shots, but none
like this Betty Boop lookalike.
There’s something so completely
disturbing about this photograph, I
thought it’d give you all a laugh
and a giggle. The effort,
nevertheless, is incredible.
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Hot Rod is very much an art form.
It has to do with restoration of old
vehicles, so it’s easy to see why the
artists are usually male. And where
there’s a male hub, there are always
sexy ladies.
Gil Elvgren - Vintage Feminism and
the Origin of the Hot Rod Pinup
It
may have completely happened by
mistake, but we can trace the
traditional hot rod pinup way back to
the early 50’s. When Elvgren took them
out of the home and into the car. I
love the few examples, where the
Elvgren pinup is daintily, yet
competently, handling the car, or the
one, where she’s the competent driver.
They’re pregnant, their hot and
their not afraid to show it. It’s the
top 10 hot mama pinups mother’s day
special!
Ever since
Demi Moore, sexy mamas are
everywhere. They carry a whole
baby in their body, 24 hours a day
and they still look gorgeous. This
is a tribute to all those sexy
mamas that won’t let a little
thing like hormonal imbalances
cramp their style.
Sometimes I find one of these little
gems and there’s nothing else to them.
This is one of these cases. I can’t
even find the original post that
featured this image. But the blog it
was featured in was pretty damn
cool, even though it had nothing to
do with pinups, except the blonde
bombshell to the left.
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Celebrating sex and diversity with
the classic theme of pinup on
DeviantArt.
Last
August, I gave props to 9
magnificent pinup artists. I’d
like to celebrate more deserving
pinup artists, again, so that’s
today’s focus. You’ll find a lot
of diversity and a lot of cheek.
Celebrating sex and diversity with
the classic theme of pinup.
Miss Cadence - Start with Something
Traditional
I thought I’d start off with something
traditional. Miss
Cadence is a beautiful neo
pinup. She’s a classic beauty and
just does the job right. She also
brings in a classic diversity, as
Miss Cadence comes in all your
favorite colors: blonde, brunette
and redhead.
Here’s a small
Sunday treat: Templates
Blog is full of
hours-viewing-worth of beautifully
executed illustrations. I’d like to
bring your pinup loving attention to
this pinup-focused post, boasting
14 gorgeous cartoon styled pinups.
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They’re hispanic, BBW, male,
anthropomorphic and they have one thing
in common- They’re all in a bunny
suit!
Easter brings
upon me a message of hope, this
year. Out I went to fetch you some
Easter bunnies and to my pleasant
surprise I found a world of
diversities. All sexy, all
bunnies, in all sizes, shapes and
colors. It’s the diverse universe
of the Easter bunny fetish- as
long as you got long ears- you’re
in!
You don’t have
to speak Dutch in order to click
the abundance of wonderful links
at Pinup.Jouwpagina.nl.
Conveniently titled in English, you
can find artists, celebrities,
beefcake ad much more. An
attractively packaged pinup resource
site, with some real hidden
treasures.
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These sexy femme fatals fooled
many, this April fool’s I’ve got a
lovely collection of pinups that are
not quite what they
seem.
It’s that annoying day of the year
tomorrow, and The Pinup Blog would like
to do its part. I’m not one for
practical jokes, but I
do like a healthy dose
of mystery in
my pinups. These are the pinups that
fooled many…
Green is not an easy color to wear,
but these bombshells make it look easy.
Avoid the pinch with sexy green
dress!
The
annual St. Patrick’s pinup
countdown at The Pinup Blog is
on. After a long search, I
found some fantastic green clad
bombshells, for your viewing
pleasure. Wether cartoon, 3D or
celebrity, there’s something for
everyone. So grab a beer and lets
see if you can count down from 10!
#10 CafePress’ St. Patrick’s
Pinups
Cafepress is always stocked
up for the holidays and always has a
few pinup girls in store. St. Patrick’s
is no exception. A variety of styles-
all in green.
Pinup graffiti, cheesecake tattoos
and bombshell skateboards is what it’s
all about!
It’s true that
a pinup is something you pin up,
but that doesn’t mean that we
can’t side-step the
technicalities, here and there.
Today we take a look at how pinups
are used in T-shirts and graffiti
and other less mainstream mediums.
Pin-Up
Art World holds true to it’s
name. Not only is it a dedicated
online store. It is a wondrous
collection of neo pinup art, from
funny
cartoons to
glossy airbrush art and a source of
information about many modern pinup
artists. A respectful enterprise
in this beloved, sleazy genre.
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Beefcake searches always leave me
wanting, especially at Christmas time.
Could it be that only gay men consume
beefcake?
Last year I
nominated the
top 10 Christmas neo pinups. I
thought I’d see what beefcake had to
offer in that category. It’s a short
list this year. As always, a search for
beefcake is much tougher, as they seem
to be scarce (in relation to their
female counter part). Always leaving me
asking that age old question: Where’s
the beef?!
I’ll start off with this excruciating
Shawn Connery, to the left. I don’t
know what the hell the man was
thinking, but there you have it. I know
this isn’t a Christmas themed beefcake,
per se, but he’s so festive in that red
fetish get-up... Just look at him as my
Christmas gift to you.
Pinup artists are all over the net,
meet my personal favorites.
A few
months ago I exposed you to
the fantastic artists of
DeviantART. Today I’d like you to
meet the incredible pinup artists of
Imagekind.
Whether it’s cartoon cheesecake,
retro girls next door, or sexy
neo-pinups, you can find it on
Imagekind.
Frank G - Artistic Nude
Photography
Frank
G’s photographs are all titled
with the model’s name. His works
depict an intimate moment. Always
loving and respectful of the
female form, whether it’s a pinup
or an artistic nude. The images
are clean and have a sharp finish.
The sketch to
the left is a preliminary outline
for a cartoon piece by Bill
Wenzel. It is only a fraction of
the treasure chest which is the
ASIFA
Animation Archive. ASIFA is
all about animation, cartoon and
illustration history, but for us-
pinup lovers- there’s also a
huge
collection of classical and
cartoon pinups. For a little
pinup history education, head on
to ASIFA!
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Erotic
artworks is a blog by a
mystery man, called ds38, on Vox.
ds38 collects neo pinups, from
realistic to cartoon. He’s got
some great stuff, I’ve never seen
before. Some
of it very diverse, so I
highly recommend it!
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The Pinup
Shop and Blog are one year old. I know
it’s customary to do a best moments
recap, but I thought this would be a
great opportunity to cover birthday
pinups, in a Pinup Blog fashion. But
first- a song:
Pin
Up & Cartoon Girls is a
fan blog. Its author dedicates it
to showcasing cartoon neo pinup
girls, every couple of days,
respectfully linking to the
artists. (That’s why I decided to
add it to my blogroll.)
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FlashParade is a
magnificent artist, who does a lot of
what can be easily classified cartoon
pinup art. The artist’s cute subjects
are very feminine and dynamic, and loads
of fun. Good art and good pinup. Enjoy!
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