#374 - Amazon House of Milan Rubex Robert Bishop
Amazon, Number One
an anthology of female domination illustrations
by five artists
House of Milan, Corp., 1973
Los Angeles, California
plus bonus material
in two parts
part one:optimized for ebook viewing
part two: digital replica pages
Published in 1973, the 64-page original consists of black and white pictures, some full-page, others two, three and four to a page, by five artists. A five-page essay, “In Defense of Domination,” compares male and female domination, characterizing the female variety as superior. This piece echoes the feminist rhetoric of the 1970s, as it refers to the beliefs of other centuries.
As expanded by the supplemental material, the Amazon ebooks present personal visions of the dominant female as imagined by seven artists. The assortment of women-in-control images shows a spectrum of ideals, but suggests these fantasies are as varied as dreams.
RUBEX — 14 illustrations plus the color back cover
As Rubex’s shapely sadists bring their helpless men to tears, they appear to be having fun, enjoying the man’s terror and the act of inflicting pain. Mostly set in clinics, the women usually dress as nurses, with white caps, dresses, knickers, aprons, gloves and boots of rubber. Some hold spanking devices, some syringes, some administer gas. Males are bound and gagged and sometimes sat upon or otherwise used for entertainment purposes.
LOMAX — 15 illustrations
The sexy brunettes in this set have immobilized their men with ropes and cuffs. The tableaux show conquered men, in pain. These women appear to be serious about the torments they enforce. Mr. Lomax presents them with their lovely breasts exposed, tempting the men they abuse with their stiff nipples. Although his sexy sadists wear makeup and hairstyles of the 1970s, he sometimes places characters in a dungeon or ancient setting.
VOLPE — 19 illustrations
With strands of art nouveau, witchcraft, and psychedelia, Volpe’s fiendish females appear cloaked in mystery, listening to distant voices. Shown on black backgrounds, mostly dressed in black leather, these slim, witchy vixens betray the arrogance of aristocracy as they go about the serious tasks of hurting their captives. Many gracefully curved whips.
JON DEK — 4 illustrations
An artist with apparent aspirations for a career in fashion illustration, Jon Dek’s pictures all show shoes pressed against the head or face of dominated males.
THE BISHOP — 34 illustrations
One of the most prolific erotic illustrators of his generation, Robert Bishop’s pictures usually show men tormenting women. H-O-M presented his images in many of their periodicals as well as anthologies of his work.
This collection focuses his impressive talents on dominant females who bind and punish men. His usually petite, perfectly-shaped divas wear an assortment of costumes, with mythic, ancient, renaissance, and modern styles, often including high-heeled boots. They treat their male prisoners as dogs, horses and criminals. The original book has a lingerie ad that features illustrations by The Bishop, and these are included in the ebook
Bonus Material
“Lasha” by Gene Bilbrew
A cigarette-smoking beauty who always shows off her long legs in the highest of heels, Lasha captures a federal agent. She wants him to disclose his secrets and uses a whip to persuade him.
In this seven-page comic, Mr. Bilbrew gives us flawless lines that delineate curvaceous feminine shapes and volumes. Surely, this work, though modest in size, is among his best, created at they peak of his talent. The sexy pictures in the panels are shown to good advantage in the optimized ebook.
Plus additional femdom art
two ebooks
The original volume is divided into sections, by artist. Each artist is introduced by two paragraphs of critical prose, and this text is similarly positioned in the ebook. Each illustration is placed on a separate page, and details are repeated next to the complete picture or on the following page. Some of the architecture has been cropped out to obtain larger pictures of the characters. If you owned the H-O-M Amazon volume and looked at it for years, the ebook would allow you to see the fierce femininity the artists intended for the first time.
The optimized ebook also includes the best images in “Lasha” and additional illustrations that show another artist’s femdom fantasies. More than 150 optimized pages.
Part two is a short ebook that includes the cover, title page, essay (“In Defense of Domination”) and the complete, multi-panel pages of “Lasha”.
Two ebooks, one optimized, delivered by download from your 30th Street Graphics account.