As a bondage artist Willie is most known for his character Sweet Gwendoline, a rather naïve blond damsel in distress, who unfortunately finds herself tied up in scene after scene. She always gets rescued - and tied up gain, but only for benevolent reasons - by Secret Agent U-69. A third character who reappears is the moustache-clad villain Sir Dystic D'Arcy, that Willie based on himself. Here are some of his illustrations!
Thursday, June 07, 2012
John Willie
John Willie (born John Alexander Scout Coutts, 1902) was a pioneer when it comes to fetish photography and bondage illustrations. Between 1946-1949 he published - somewhat irregularly - his own magazine Bizarre. This magazine included photographs, drawings of costume designs, and letters from readers, concerning things like high heels, bondage, sadomasochism, transvestism, corsets, and body modification.
As a bondage artist Willie is most known for his character Sweet Gwendoline, a rather naïve blond damsel in distress, who unfortunately finds herself tied up in scene after scene. She always gets rescued - and tied up gain, but only for benevolent reasons - by Secret Agent U-69. A third character who reappears is the moustache-clad villain Sir Dystic D'Arcy, that Willie based on himself. Here are some of his illustrations!
As a bondage artist Willie is most known for his character Sweet Gwendoline, a rather naïve blond damsel in distress, who unfortunately finds herself tied up in scene after scene. She always gets rescued - and tied up gain, but only for benevolent reasons - by Secret Agent U-69. A third character who reappears is the moustache-clad villain Sir Dystic D'Arcy, that Willie based on himself. Here are some of his illustrations!
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Bizarre,
bondage,
corsets,
Fetish,
illustration,
John Willie,
stilettos,
vintage
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Those are marvelous..love the last one :)))
ReplyDeleteWow, you can definitely tell that John was a huge fan of bondage, some of these are kind of creepy such as the one of the woman with her head submerged in soap suds but I can't deny that the art is beautiful, thanks for sharing this Miss Meadows. I feel horribly immature for laughing at the fact his second name's Willie considering what he likes to draw haha.
ReplyDeleteCame back for another look ; ) You know, can't help myself!! Thank you flower for the kind words. The veiled hat is my favourite too, those are the ones I look for first ;) And yes, I rather ruin my hair than my hat too : ) The picnic looked wonderful and a group of beauties wearing vintage hats is how it should be :))) We will take over the world with our hats :))) xox
ReplyDeleteA great one.
ReplyDeleteFantastic images!
ReplyDeleteare these real
ReplyDeleteYes, they are real! :) Here is a link to some info about the artist John Willie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Willie
Deletexox
Miss Meadows