CRAIG FOX
Cartoony but sexy in a manner that anticipates men’s mag tease cartoons of the fifties, Craig Fox frequently portrayed zaftig beauties as vibrant lust objects. (Though he was equally adept at rendering slimmer models – as our reducing wish and super mart postcards make clear.) Looking at his work, you can see the evolution of comic art through the forties to the fifties: his glossy fifties cards have a simplicity that the earlier linen ones lack, though I tend to favor the earlier work. After all, it’s the early Fox that gave us the immortal Dotty Dimwits.
(Thanx to Karl N. for suggesting this page.)
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Earlier
This Dotty Dimwit card obviously catches our heroine before her tenure as an "overeating dame," though the blond figure in panel two is still curvily zaftig.
Later
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