![]() He's well known today as an advertising illustrator, paperback and magazine illustrator, and pin-up artist. We were poking around online and came across these two nude figurines by the French artist Alain Gourdon, aka Aslan. We'll be back tomorrow to help dispose of the bodies. Want to see our greatest hits of Greenleaf Classics? Top ten: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. And if you think everyone has simply turned into humorless drones, ditto. If you think society has progressed since then, here's a bit of evidence why that's true. Probably not so much today, but that's one reason we share these-for the cultural contrast between then and now. Back then the results were considered tastelessly funny. Greenleaf Classics and its various imprints-Evening, Candid, Midnight, Ember, Nightstand, et al-had a way of reducing cover concepts to their primal essence. You'll see what we mean if you look here. But on the other hand, the cover for Sweet Wild Wench is a simplified copy of a frame from the 1958 Brigitte Bardot film En cas de malheur, aka Love Is My Profession. The artist who painted this cover for Curt Aldrich's 1966 sleazer Anytime Girl didn't receive credit, which is not surprising, because it's a simplified copy of a Bob Abbett cover for the 1959 William Campbell Gault novel Sweet Wild Wench.
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