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!