Vintage Sleaze: November 2009

Early Upskirt The Art of the Flash

A staple of the vintage sleaze illustrator's repertoire, the upskirt flash. Most frequently caused by wind, but often as well by gymnastic gyrations on the part of the scheming businessman, boss or jackhammer worker. The examples all circa 1935-1945.

Picture of a Financial Transaction vintage sleaze

Detail from Sleazy Photo Set, c. 1945

Dimples in the Right Places vintage sleaze

Ad for Photo Set c. 1950

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Shy Shamed Sec...

SSSSH! Vintage Vern...

By Victor Minx

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Gals Gams Garters

The Virginia Stocki...

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Inept Primitive Spanking Illustration vintage sleaze

Primitive drawing from handmade pamphlet, c. 1950
See Dull Tool Dim Bulb Books HERE

"Smothering it with Welcoming Curves"

Stag film description from 1950s catalog/brochure.

Censored Salesman Sample Pinup

Likely a sample page for a calendar, and if you look REALLY close you can see it was from a certainly long gone company known as "midnight dreams" who wanted to take off some skirts while skirting the law! Hilarious banner protects the innocent from boobage.

Pinup Salesman Sample page c. 1950 collection Jim Linderman

Gals Gams Garters THE BOOK Stockings Fetish Scrapbook

A legs and stockings fetish dream, a circa 1950 homemade scrapbook assembled by an anonymous aficionado of the female form in nylon found by a student in Virginia scrounging through dumpsters. A master of collage with scissors and tape, he meticulously created a giant homage to Gals Gams and Garters. Faithfully recreated here by owner Victor Minx, the pseudonym of a prominent photography collector and with an introduction by Jim Linderman, writer and proprietor of Dull Tool Dim Bulb among many other things. The SECOND volume
in the new limited edition DULL TOOL DIM BULB BOOKS imprint. Gals Gams Garters comes in a limited edition of 250 hardcover paper jacket book, there is also an unlimited (for now) paper edition available. FREE 15 PAGE PREVIEW
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Ed Bortz, Forgotten Postcard Illustrator vintage sleaze

Magnificent Melton Viewer vintage sleaze

Circa 1950 brochure ad for the Melton viewer
Collection Jim Linderman

Strange Lust vintage sleaze

Curious Illustration from an untitled "Joke" book for men, circa 1930, no title

Title Logo for HUM Magazine by Gene Bilbrew vintage sleaze

Gene Bilbrew illustration for cover of HUM Magazine based on Bettie Page. Bilbrew illustrated issue number two as well.

See also books and Ebooks by Jim Linderman HERE

The Loveliest Girls in the World Just the Way you Want Them...

Circa 1950 Girlie Photograph and Stag Film Brochure Collection Jim Linderman

LOST Risque Illustration Girlie Drawings and the Postcard Chet Warner vintage sleaze

The work of one Chet Warner. Pseudonym or not, he's gone. At least I can't find anything about him. These images come from post cards produced prior to 1950 by the Asheville Post Card Company in North Carolina. I post them not to detract from the work of the four illustrators of note here on this site, but to raise an issue. Is there a directory of erotic illustrators? Not that many of the thousands upon thousands of amateur risque postcard illustrators necessarily deserve one...but some do, and Mr. Warner had a way with the pen. Asheville Postcard and Pennant company was founded in 1910. In the 1970's, 20 million cards in their stock were sold to an individual. Which explains why I was able to find a handful of mint condition and unmailed cards. A brief aside, and one which should not deter you from your paperbacks.

SHY SHAMED SECRET SHADOWED HIDDEN by same Author

Shy Shamed Secret Shadowed Hidden vintage sleaze

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The Dangerous ...

Justin Kent Eddie M...

By Jim Linderman

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Vintage Erotic Vernacular Photography Shy Shamed Secret Shadowed Hidden

Victor Minx is simultaneously proud and ashamed to announce publication of his new book HERE.
SHY SHAMED SECRET SHADOWED HIDDEN. This is a quite extraordinary photography book containing over 100 original vintage photos from the Victor Minx collection. Jim Linderman wrote the essay, which is available in the free preview. Each photo, all vintage and original, depicts a women hiding in some manner. Quite a group, and quite a book. The Link provides a free preview of the first 15 pages. HERE
(Also available as an eBook for iPAD only $5.99)

About the Author

"We’ve all got a sleazy side, haven’t we?"
Design Blog It's Nice That.

"...one of the blog writers to watch for"
ARTSlant

"...collected over the years by Jim Linderman, a character who seems the perfect subject for a Harvey Pekar comic. Linderman treats collecting like a calling, and his finds have a resulting air of authority, stunning in their capture of bygone picturesque moments."
Derek Taylor Dusted

"...Jim Linderman’s blog Vintage Sleaze – a treasure chest (sorry) of adult gags, disreputable imagery and sordid stories featuring some of America’s best-loved sexy artists. Vintage Sleaze is “the true and untold history of smut in America,” Linderman reveals in the site’s opening statement – now if that’s a line that doesn’t tickle your fancy, I don’t know what will."
Alex Moshakis It's Nice That

"Linderman acknowledges the obscure at the same time that he elevates it.... His collections tell vast stories in sotto voce, allowing curios and objects shadowed by mainstream culture and ideology to converse and be heard. What we hear is an enormous American sub-culture speaking in forbidden, marginalized languages: stuff discovered boxed in the attic out of embarrassment or zealotry, smutty ash trays crowing next to religious pamphlets, each claiming a part of the complex, sometimes contradictory, always conflicted American imagination, a chaos of memories that will one day vanish."
Joe Bonomo Author of Conversations With Greil Marcus, Jerry Lewis Lost and Found and No Such Thing As Was

"The pictures, discarded artifacts of ecstatic Americana, come from the stash of Jim Linderman, who in his introduction recalls advice he’s plainly taken to heart: “Collect the heck” out of whatever you find interesting."
Drew Jubera Paste Magazine

"His interest in art is rivaled only by his interest in music, and one expression informs the other. He pursues objects with thoroughness and an innate sense of curiosity..."
Tanya Heinrich Folk Art Magazine

"Documenting--one clipping at a time--the scrapbook of a leg and garter aficionado that was dumpster-dived in Virginia in the 60s" "...an outstanding image-archaeologist who has compiled a shelf-ful of worthy and unique photographic histories."
William Smith Hang Fire Books

"Linderman has a knack for discovering untold stories and introducing them to a wider audience"
Joey Lin Anonymous Works

"Jim Linderman...makes us all look a little puny"
Could it be Madness-this?

"...insatiable collector of ephemera and ringleader behind an incredible circus of blogs — including the treasure trove dull tool dim bulb"
The Cynephile

"Yo no sé ustedes pero creo que es uno de los mejores sitios que he visitado en mucho tiemp"
Color Me in Blog

"...there's something beyond the endless photos and postcards and weird propaganda from another time that he lovingly documents - I think it's the collection as a whole, the portrait of a person fascinated with culture and communication. I have met people like this before, and in reading Dull Tool Dim Bulb I feel I have been lucky enough to meet one more. This site is a goldmine in terms of links..."
The Hyggelic Life October 2009

"Linderman is always on the lookout for the new and exciting"
Chuck and Jan Rosenak Contemporary American Folk Art

"...an amazing collection..."
Revel in New York October 2009

"Jim Linderman has a nice little colllection of interesting books and blogs...But every so often he just loses it."
American Digest March 2010

"Perpetually ahead of the collecting curve...a one man Taschen. An authentically curious individual...diligently archiving the forgotten curiosities of American History"

Emma Higgins in Art Hack May 2012

"FOR MOST OF HIS LIFE, COLLECTOR JIM LINDERMAN has searched high and low for authentic things--unique and special objects that define the artistic culture of the American experience. From folk art to popular culture, from pulp fiction to Delta Blues-- Jim is a walking authority on so many things American they are too numerous to mention. One thing is certain-- his collecting interests are for things that have fallen through the cracks, those things lost and forgotten--the box of material under the table at the flea market booth. If it wasn't for dedicated collectors like Jim Linderman-- so many important objects about our culture would have surely been lost to time and indifference."

"Jim Linderman maintains a most interesting blog about the most amazing things from his collection—a site he calls “Dull Tool Dim Bulb,” the only curse words his father ever uttered. I love it, and read it everyday."
"...an excellent writer and I devour your blog daily. I am impressed at your deep knowledge of things within your niche..."
John Foster Accidental Mysteries

"I am grateful to Jim Linderman for first alerting me to the existence of the 1930s Spiritualist hymn "Jesus is My Air-o-plane."
William Fagaly New Orleans Museum of Art, Author Tools of her Ministry: The art of Sister Gertrude Morgan

"Linderman describes a long gone world...(he) claims not to be a writer but he is most certainly an excellent researcher..."
BOOKSTEVE

"Jim Linderman, King of the Internet Ephemeral Arts"
Spaniel Rage

"Jim is a fantastic historian...show him some love"
Astrid Daley Fringe Pop / Sin-A-Rama

"Almost an experimental narrative"
Idiopath

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What We Are

Vintage Sleaze the daily blog discovers forgotten artists of the past who worked in the somewhat dicey but hilarious early smut market. Colorful, funny and often touching, writer, collector (and Grammy™ nominee) Jim Linderman writes the text using the vintage cartoon gag, limp-core smut and risque novelty collection of Victor Minx as a starting point for examinations into the sexy and sexist days of girlie magazines, gag digests, back page scams and sideshow midnight rambles. Early strippers, models, illustrators, artists, photographers, mob-connected publishers hire amphetamine driven writers (many posing under pseudonyms) and all mingle together in an amazing orgy of the funny and often fetishistic follies of the fifties. Linderman is able to balance the line between the profane and the profound easily, as the backyard erotica of the time was tame compared to today. Tease and trash your ancestors refused to admit existed (but bought in huge piles anyway.) From Tijuana Bibles and inept snapshot salesmen to party toys and risque postcards, the site shows it all with delicate and affectionate respect and humor. A entire generation of artistic smut was rightly eliminated by the women’s movement but there was a glimmer of merit in the dark corners. Linderman aims to find it and makes no apologies, and in fact many of the followers of his site are women. Like a reporter, he digs it up and shares without judging. He frequently receives mail from relatives of those he profiles and most seem happy to have had the work of their ancestors found again and appreciated. Vintage Sleaze runs daily until he runs out!

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Vintage Sleaze

Early Upskirt The Art of the Flash

Picture of a Financial Transaction vintage sleaze

Dimples in the Right Places vintage sleaze

Vintage Sleaze Books PREVIEW OR PURCHASE BOOKS

Inept Primitive Spanking Illustration vintage sleaze

"Smothering it with Welcoming Curves"

Censored Salesman Sample Pinup

Gals Gams Garters THE BOOK Stockings Fetish Scrapbook

Ed Bortz, Forgotten Postcard Illustrator vintage sleaze

Magnificent Melton Viewer vintage sleaze

Strange Lust vintage sleaze

Title Logo for HUM Magazine by Gene Bilbrew vintage sleaze

The Loveliest Girls in the World Just the Way you Want Them...

LOST Risque Illustration Girlie Drawings and the Postcard Chet Warner vintage sleaze

Shy Shamed Secret Shadowed Hidden vintage sleaze

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Vintage Erotic Vernacular Photography Shy Shamed Secret Shadowed Hidden

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