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[STANTON, Eric] The Making of Stantoons 98 (Trans-Fem-Ation). With original sketches, hand-colored sheets, signed correspondence, and more
[STANTON, Eric] The Making of Stantoons 98 (Trans-Fem-Ation). With original sketches, hand-colored sheets, signed correspondence, and more
New York: Eric Stanton, 1995-1997. First Edition. A one-of-a-kind collection of Eric Stanton materials (many of which are signed) in relation to Stantoons 98, which is a forced feminization story. One of Stanton's customers submitted his own fantasy to Stanton so it could be actualized into a completed issue of Stantoons (for a price). The collection here includes a number of items such as original sketches, hand-colored sheets of all the artwork (the published version was in b&w), variations of artwork, a letter to the customer, additional handwritten correspondence from Stanton to the customer, a finished copy of Stantoons 98 (#1 and signed by Stanton), and more. Additional details of what is included are listed below. All materials are in near fine condition. A very scarce collection of items from the Master of bondage and fetish art from the late 1940s until his death in 1999.
Contents include:
1. A published copy of Stantoons 98, inscribed, dated, SIGNED and numbered (#1) by Stanton. This copy is in fine condition.
2. A short letter to Stanton customer ("Paul"), dated and SIGNED by Eric Stanton. This announces the completion of the work.
3. Variations of artwork (that went into Stantoons 98); these are 31 pages xeroxed by Stanton, showing his customer the progress on the artwork that would eventually go into the finished volume. An excellent look at the process by which Stanton worked.
4. The entire artwork of Stantoons 98 copied and hand-colored by Stanton. 30 8.5 x 11 inch pages (much larger than the published artwork, which was in b&w only) and SIGNED by Stanton at the end.
5. Eric Stanton's handwritten correspondences with the customer, most of which are SIGNED. 20 pages (one is typed with pencil notes added, and one almost looks like a xerox copy but it remains uncertain. The rest are all handwritten. The letters started in early 1995 and the finished product was in 1997. This collection of letters details the process and updates of the work involved, and also shows Stanton's occasional frustration with the demands of the client (he refused to incorporate the client's likeness in the artwork, saying that he wasn't getting paid enough to do so). At the same time it includes a fair amount of personal information about Stanton, noting his health issues, reasons for delays, his dominating wife, etc. Also, the client was evidently making efforts to get Stanton to send him original copies of the final artwork for a very low price and Stanton replied that he never sells original artwork but instead makes copies and then hand colors everything and calls that "original art."
6. 9 original sketch pages, each SIGNED by Eric Stanton. The sketches are on tracing paper and most measure 10 x 14 inches, with a few being slightly smaller.
7. A series of printouts from "C.C." to Stanton, which shows all the text (created by "C.C.") to accompany the artwork for Stantoons 98.
Eric Stanton (born Ernest Stanzoni Jr.; September 30, 1926 – March 17, 1999) was an American underground cartoonist and fetish art pioneer. While Stanton began his career as a bondage fantasy artist for Irving Klaw, the majority of his later work depicted gender role reversal and proto-feminist female dominance scenarios. Commissioned by Klaw starting in the late 1940s, his bondage fantasy chapter serials earned him underground fame. Stanton also worked with pioneering underground fetish art publishers, Leonard Burtman (publisher of Exotique and Selbee magazines), the notorious Times Square publisher Edward Mishkin, paperback publisher Stanley Malkin, and later magazine publisher George W. Mavety. For a decade, Stanton also shared a working studio with Marvel Comics legend Steve Ditko, the creator of Spiderman.