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Bet on BIRO!!!
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8 minutes ago, Point Five said:

This thread seems like a good place to put this one!
Women never seem to fare very well on Biro covers.  :eek:

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This one is classic in its own right. Just all kinds of weird :D

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4 hours ago, szavisca said:

Not to thread c@&p (though I was invited to do so in pm by the op)...

But anyone who is a fan of “Biro’s work” should read Ten Cent plague.  It paints him in almost as villainous a light as the characters which he so often depicted.

Apparantly he relied on some mechanical devices to assist his work, and in later years when he worked in a managerial capacity he allegedly frequently put his name on underlings works.

That said those covers that bear his signature are worth celebrating on their own merits.  He certainly had a knack for knowing what the public wanted and was a pioneer in the field who pushed societal norms beyond their limits.

 

Not to mention, he worked with Bob Wood. He didn't turn out too well either...

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