Chastity En Blue

 Welcome once again to another edition of

Today we're looking at Sweet Chastity. Sweet Chastity was a comic written by Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione and painted by Ron Embleton. Most folks in this country who know Embleton's work are familiar due to a previous similar project, Oh, Wicked Wanda! But Ron's impressive comics legacy goes back at least to the 1950s with Wulf The Briton and a host of others, including the epic Trigon Empire saga. (I know, we're supposed to have covered that a bit before now. Sorry) But, we're not really going to talk about Ron today - we're just here to look at Chastity, a most literal creation, in the Von Frankenstein castle, no less...

They were not subtle in their world's reaction to Sweet Chastity, their perfect woman unleashed upon society...

...and the sexual frenzy surrounding Chastity often took on a surreal tone...

It was just silly fun, and they seemed to have fun doing it.
When Sweet Chastity returned for Penthouse Comix' 25th issue, she was heralded by portraits from some notable artists known to be appreciative of the female form...

Aspiri -

Luis Royo -

Milo Manara -

Horatio Altuna -

Julie Bell -

Boris Vallejo -

Michael Lopez -

You may wonder what happened to Sweet Chastity - and you're not the only one. At the height of her popularity and impact in her world, chaos suddenly reigned...

It's been downhill ever since.
Where did she go? No one knows for certain, but there have been rumors...

Like Elvis, the sightings continue. Is it ever really

?

 art by Ron Embleton, Azpiri, Luis Royo, Milo Manara, Horatio Altuna, Julie Bell, Boris Vallejo, and Michael Lopez for Penthouse & Penthouse Comix (1981-1988, 1997)

Blue Monday Calendar 2018 Week 14

This week's lovely Gil Elvgren painting is  Bubbling Over, from 1951.
What else needs be said when presented with such a vision?

Bubbling Over by Gil Elvgren (1951)

April Calendars

Hey, Look! I noticed when the new month arrived.
I had doubts, but here're your calendars - on time (sorry)*

Let's lead off with the calendar that isn't carried out front in the main blog. (Hopefully that little graphic in the upper right will keep the link safe for those who've added us to their blog roll)

As long as you're already here, no reason to have to go all the way back out front for the rest of the regularly scheduled calendars for this month -

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*(sorry about the pun, not about being on time)

California Love Tree

Last week we saw a couple of covers from California Comics in our Non-Verbal Blue post. These two covers, to be precise:

These beautiful covers by Ed Watson come from a title most never encountered. California Comics is another of those books published by a comic shop with limited distribution. These came from Bob Sidebottom's shop in San Jose which, i believe, was also named California Comics. He also published Barbarian Comics and Barbarian Women Comics. Ed did some pin-up work for them as well, some of which appeared in that same post linked above.

The subject featured on the two covers above is the wizard Love Tree, who also starred in strips by Ed in all 3 issues of California Comics. I'll bet you can guess where this is leading, hm?
To this week's edition of

Meet Love Tree -

While Ed Watson also provided the painted cover to the 3rd issue, it didn't feature Love Tree.
It was Pure California - 

There is an Ed Watson doing comic artwork these days, but i get the impression that he's too young to be the same Ed Watson.

artwork by Ed Watson for California Comics #s 1-3 (1974, 1975, 1977)