Soirée Part Three

9-28-2014

First of all: the third and last part of the Soirée albums is out:
Soirée Part three. A whopping 39 pages, and still at only $12.50. Go check it out in the shop, under Comics.
A few days ago, we mentioned that the subject of mature women in bondage was the most popular theme on our site by far. The books with that title, or the ones like Juvenile Domination are outselling all the rest, and the subject takes places one and two in the search strings leading here.
Here are Coco's ideas on the subject.

I am very happy with these developments, as this has been one of my favorite subjects for a long, long time. Just like the one concerning the uncöoperative victim, the subdued dominatrix. For years, I have been thinking that I was one of the few artists who addressed these themes in his or her work. I remembered the great work of John Willie, about Sweet Gwendolyn, a classic soft, helpless plaything in the hands of her attackers.
And from the early seventies on, bondage art for me was defined by only one person: Robert Bishop. And although Fanni and the Madam weren't exactly high school graduates, I also wouldn't estimate them as in their late, or maybe even early thirties.

But I have been overlooking something for a long time. So taken by Bishop's work for all these decades, I had kind of forgotten what I grew up on, as a young teenager. Before Bishop, there was the great work from the likes of Stanton, Eneg and Ruiz, for instance. And thinking back on that, and on looking that work up again, it hit me that they also worked on these subjects regularly. Overall, their victims looked more like women than girls to me. And the theme of the angry, subjugated villain or enemy came around ever so often.

Even in the world of photography, I have to say, it seems to me that the models in the fifties and sixties were quite a bit older than most of those of these days.

Now I grant you, that some of the art I have pondered upon here was made before I was borne (I'm from the mid-fifties). But it was around in abundance, and it was the first BD art I set eyes on. And it payed reference to another great influence of those days: the heroïnes looked just like the women I saw in the movies, in black and white, on our first TV set!

All of this must have influenced me more than I remembered I guess; so I'm not such a front runner after all (bummer). Oh well, at least I was the first to use female bodybuilders as models! I think..? Let me go back and look some things up...

CBAP