#301368 - Fanni Hall Robert Bishop

Fanni Hall, eight episodes
by Robert Bishop
first published in
House of Milan magazines
Los Angeles, California
1970s

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House of Milan serialized Fanni Hall comic strips in Knotty magazine. Mr. Bishop also provided incidental art for the company. Pictures introduced short stories, detailed sex products and were often used as filler.

The story begins with Fanni Hall on a quest to find her missing assistant. We can infer from her bravado, martial-arts prowess, and sophisticated firearms that her occupation may be connected to some security agency or special missions service. [Mr. Bishop adds the words SUPER SLEUTH to the first panel.] At the end of first episode, she scolds herself for allowing a note to lead her into a trap, “like an amateur.” Her car sports the lines of a DeLorean proportioned like an AMC Pacer, both of which were hyped in the 1970s.

Like Blunder Broad and Sweet Gwendoline, Fanni's wholesome pursuit lands her in the grip of exotic bondage that displays her fine figure. Her nemesis, Madame Boundy, rules as monarch of a wicked, multifarious enterprise that includes ominous castles and intimidated assistants.

One of her businesses manufactures bondage implements. Restrained slaves are forced to work leather and buckles into reliable binding paraphernalia.

A gleeful, busy sadist, Madame seems pleased to subdue Fanni in a spectrum of unrelenting devices. Armbinders, metal cuffs, leather cuffs, spreader bars, mummification outfits, ropes, stiff brief panties, blindfolds, mittens, a hard shell cocoon, and a varied wardrobe of gags keeps our cute heroine immobilized and silent. In some scenes, her thoughts appear in bubbly balloons.

Mr. Bishop's compact ladies all have the same girlish silhouette, which seems to beckon touch. Nipples are usually concealed by costumes while shaping adhering fabric. Tight binding schemes compress the flesh of hardbodies, turn, twist and bend shapely limbs.

The artist here functions as author, dialogist, costumer, letterer, and bondage stylist. For the genre, he succeeds at all his roles.

The eight episodes mix techniques. Early in the series, pictures show hard-edged black regions as shadows and curved hatching and cross hatching. In the middle of the third episode, soft airbrush edges define rounded contours on foreground characters with hatching in background elements.

Mr. Bishop also applied commercial printed patterns to add grays and textures to his monochrome scenes. Cut to shape and pressed into place, these adhesive applications appear as film grain, dusty gradients, close parallel lines and concentric rings. [Bill Ward often used printed floral patterns on hosiery.]

Intent here appears to be the feeding of bondage fetish appetites. Enthusiasts will appreciate his attention to boot heels, rivets, buckles, straps, knots and linkages and the skillful draftsmanship that appears in lines, corners, spacing and hairdos.

This collection could serve as a lexicon of luxurious bondage schemes enforced upon superb bodies. But the original printing of these comics serials presented as many as 9 panels to a magazine page. As the art of this series shows excellence throughout, the ebook presentation optimizes every panel on a separate ebook page.

This format was designed to show each picture as large as possible on screens. As the height of panels varies, some dialog balloons and narrative blocks are re-positioned from the top of panels to the side.

Brightness and contrast were adjusted and many specks retouched. Some text is light.

All new scans.

With respect for Mr. Bishop's talent and diligence, the ebook affords close inspection of the artist's deft delineation of feminine curves, facial expressions and stringent mechanisms on 200 pages.

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