I’ve been trying to locate information about a cartoonist whose work appeared in nudie magazines circa late 1950s-early 1960s.
1.) The artist’s name is Lartiguw (that’s how he signed the cartoon – a one-page gag panel). It’s not Hubert Lartigue, who was born in 1973, and thus too late to be the guy I’m looking for. Nor is it Jacques-Henri Lartigue, a photographer and painter (but not cartoonist) active mainly in the 1920s and 1930s. Those are the only “Lartigues” to come up in internet searches.
2.) The magazine was not a major one like Playboy. There’s no name on the existing page (which does not appear to have been cut out). The pages are also much smaller than most of the “gentlemen’s: magazines I’ve seen – the page is smaller than a standard 8.5” x 11" sheet of paper. It’s maybe 7" x 9"
3.) Nevertheless, the page I have is a “gatefold” (centerfold), obviously copying Playboy’s.
4.) The style of the photography and page layout and the conspicuous absence of pubic hair dates this to about 1960 plus or minus five years.
Does anybody have a clue to who the cartoonist might be, or which magazine this is? I’ve tried various searches, with no success. I can’t find anything that tells me the sizes of the men’s magazines, which would narrow the field down.
Absolutely. It was printed in clear block letters. And being from possibly the late 1950s, it might well be from before I learned penmanship in elementary school.
“realistic” cartoony, simple erotic by implication. No nudity
Thanks. Now I have to go back and find the original cartoon (I don’t have a copy of it) and scan it in. I’;d look it up online, but I haven’t been able to find a copy. If I could, I’d probably know where it came from.
If you are on a desktop/full browser, go to Google Images and click on the camera icon. Upload the image for a search. If you are on a phone, you’ll need to switch the browser to desktop mode. But jf you are on a phone you can search directly using your camera and Google Lens. That’s Android, of course, there’s probably something similar on iDevices.
Definitely not. I’ve seen those – they’re really small, printed on cheap paper, and black and white.
This was a page from a glossy color magazine. The cartoon was colored, and the nude photography on the other side was in color, too. It was undersized, as I say – not as large as Playboy or Penthouse or Gent or Rogue. The page measured maybe 7" x 9" (Tijuana bibles were a LOT smaller than that)
There is a Lartigue M Poche Sr in Kenner, LA age 88, who also goes by Lartiguw Poche. He has a son or grandson who appears to be an artist (based on a an obit comment), so maybe it runs in the family. Could be nothing, could be something, shrug
