#365 - Haughty Hollywood Agent Eric Stanton

Haughty Hollywood Agent
by Eric Stanton
self-published: Stanton Archives
New York City
1975

digital replica
and
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 comic booklet, arrogant agent Alex is a nasty sexist who doesn't have intelligence to keep is mouth shut. Sweet Jenny, his client, invited him to dinner at her place, where he meets her equally attractive sister, Rachel. She resents his smutty repartee, and Jenny objects, too. After he spanks her, Jenny understands what a noisy boor he is and decides to give him everything he deserves, and more.

She hits him on the head with a bottle and the two lovelies tie him. They find him guilty of being a “bully, ruffian and male chauvinist hippo-pig.” They pull down his pants and Jenny spanks him with her hand and then with a long-handled brush.

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 feminist vocabulary, but Alex's smarmy remarks and insulting invitations would be inappropriate in any philosophical climate. His egotistic demeanor is configured to require punishment, which his hostess finds exciting.

Both female characters wear stockings and pumps, but heels are not high. As in many of the Maestro's stories, character countenance evolves, becoming sexier and prettier as the tale develops.

digital replica
The booklet resembles a comic in that pictures tell a story. Narration and character dialog are presented in borderless balloons.

Most of the 48 pages hold one panel, and others hold two, three, and four. The 1975 booklet was produced on a printing press, which yielded fine presentation of the Maestro's excellent pencil drawings. The digital replica shows the content page-by-page, with adjustment of contrast.

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

optimized ebook
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, some dark shadows were reduced to better show mood, shape and contour. But the ink-on-paper iteration requires little modification. The art of the booklet displays on 80 optimized ebook pages.

The Maestro created fascinating images of powerful women. Haughty Hollywood Agent's Jenny and Rachel exact humiliating justice on the nasty loudmouth 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 opens Mr. Stanton's lines and shading to easy
inspection with images that fill monitor screens
with his visions of beauty and strength.

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