#454 - The Punished Publisher Eric Stanton

The Punished Publisher
by Eric Stanton
dialogue by John Cleve
self-published: Stanton Archives
Clinton, Connecticut
1985

digital replica
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optimized for ebook viewing

Mr. Stanton created desirable women who prove dangerous for their admirers. These powerful beauties follow their own perverse agendas, which usually involve infliction of pain, restraint and humiliation. Their physical appeal draws hapless men close, but that proximity invariably provides opportunity for spanking and abuse.

In the 50-page comic booklet, Bob Caswell is the married publisher who gets punished by Ann Adams, one of his authors, and then by Joy Sloan, his editor. A presumptuous sexist, he uses a disparaging vocabulary that antagonizes hard-working women. In the opening office scene, everything seems businesslike until he insists that Ann visit his apartment to discuss manuscript changes. Joy recognizes the invitation as a ploy with an adulterous agenda. Ann tells her friend that she can take care of herself.

At his apartment, Ann cannot a abide Bob's chauvinist language. She challenges him to party her way, which involves an oversize strap-on she just happens to have in her portfolio. After slapping him and tying his hands behind him, she shoves the plastic phallus in his mouth.

Ann phones Joy and tells her to join the fun. More than pleased to find Ann in brutal control of festivities, Joy pulls up the skirt of her dress, removing any encumbrance to vigorous spanking of her arrogant boss with a wide leather belt. In the last scene, editor and author affix the strap-on to the publisher's face and tie him to a chair for his wife's
edification when she returns home.

The male character's behavior is a belligerence of errors, and the ladies react with hurt and rage. As in The Governess, the story focuses on women who force bizarre punishment on a smug fool in measures that probably exceed a balance of justice. Dialogue and narration use the feminist equality ideal as pretext for sadistic torment of the misguided male egoist.

Here, the Maestro pays special attention to rendering naked breasts and nipples. Both female characters wear stockings and pumps, but heels are not high.

digital replica
The booklet resembles a comic in that pictures tell a story. Narration and character dialog are presented in borderless balloons. Fifty excellent drawings by Mr. Stanton are consistent in size, but the fine pencil work is imbedded in gray backgrounds. Figures are cloaked in dark shadows, especially on angry faces. Each page scan was improved by brightness and contrast adjustment, but this technique is intended to show the original layouts, not to display tasty details.

The digital replica includes every page in the original sequence. All original scans.

optimized ebook
About half the pages in the booklet have a single illustration. The other gray rectangles contain two or more borderless comic panels. The optimized ebook separates the panels, placing each on its own page. In some cases, dialog balloons have been moved to allow grand female figures to fill ebook pages from top to bottom. This layout is intended to reduce the need for zooming and scrolling. Some figure elements are repeated enlarged.

On female characters, the dark shadows were reduced to better show mood, shape and contour. Careful image editing restores smooth texture to skin and nylons. The art of the booklet displays on 100 optimized ebook pages.

The Maestro created fascinating images of powerful women. The Punished Publisher's Ann and Joy exact humiliating revenge on the pretentious womanizer who insults them. The optimized ebook presents voluptuous femininity in storms of outrage that depict masochist fantasy. In a convenient picture album, the digital iteration discloses content and detail that the original obscures.

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