Jim Silke

I am TOTALLY obsessed with pin-up girls and secretly I am obsessed w/ comic book images. Don't tell anybody but I have always LOVED how artists get that NON-real/real look w/ the shadows and dark lines [or the lack thereof] and the color is just a bonus. So! . . . I was on the Hundreds blog and those lucky bastards got a shit load of books from Dark Horse comics as a GIFT [can't wait 'til I get to that level] and they featured one of Bettie Page [historic pin-up girl] done by Jim Silke and I went NUTS on google and I'm STILL not satisfied because I can't find a larger image of one of the pics from his book. I'm going to keep doing more research because I want to know if it was an obsession on his behalf or a marketing tactic via Page's strategy team hmmm : ) Can't wait to find out more.

"I was not trying to be shocking, or to be a pioneer. I wasn`t trying to change society, or to be ahead of my time. I didn`t think of myself as liberated, and I don`t believe that I did anything important. I was just myself. I didn`t know any other way to ... " -- Bettie Page

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Melissa