The Life and Times of Eric Stanton
Posted by okidan on 23rd December 2009
Eric Stanton – (or Ernest Stanzoni) was born in Brooklyn, mostly of Russian stock (his biological father apparently Italian). He was a physically vulnerable kid, catching pneumonia 3 times while in grade school. At 12, while quarantined, he started drawing for the first time, right off focusing on women … “heroines.”
After a stint in the navy as a teenager, he hooked up with a cartoonist drawing a serial for the local newspaper, The Brooklyn Eagle. At age 22, thumbing through a girlie magazine, he spotted an advertisement for an unusual comic. It was being sold by Irving Klaw, who owned a shop on 14th and Second Avenue in Manhattan called Movie Star News, where he sold stills of Hollywood Stars. (These comics, part of his more lucrative side business, were items sold mostly via mail order.) This particular ad was for a bondage serial called “Poor Pamela,” a comic being printed on photo paper and sold individually for 50 cents a pop, each page an “installment.”
Eric later felt compelled to write to Irving Klaw, saying he could “do better.” Klaw’s response was to invite him to contribute fetish artwork of his own. “Battling Women” became his first work for Klaw. It was a piece he labored on all week. It earned him $8.00.
It wasn’t long before Eric progressed from “fighting girls” to bondage: Read the rest of this entry »
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