{"product_id":"arthur-ferriers-showgirl-sirens-1940-1949","title":"ARTHUR FERRIER'S SHOWGIRL SIRENS 1940-1949","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the golden age of British cartoon pin-up art, no illustrator was as prolific or popular as Scotsman \u003cstrong\u003eArthur Ferrier\u003c\/strong\u003e. As the \"cheesecake king\" of good girl art, his voluptuous, wasp-waisted, leggy women were the benchmark for pin-up illustration. Through cartoons, comic strips, magazine illustrations and advertising art, his work epitomized the British pin-up for four decades. Often found in a state of casual undress...\n\nArthur Ferrier had a very long career -- he was active from the thirties to the sixties. He first sold cartoons to the \u003cem\u003eDaily Record\u003c\/em\u003e while working as an analytical chemist in Glasgow. He later moved to London, where he got work from \u003cem\u003ePunch\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLondon Opinion\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Humorist\u003c\/em\u003e and other weekly magazines. He drew one or two beautiful cartoons for \u003cem\u003eBlighty\u003c\/em\u003e magazine, a newsprint weekly, pretty much from its inception during World War Two through to its demise -- it eventually changed its name to \u003cem\u003eParade\u003c\/em\u003e and metamorphosed into a top-shelf magazine, by which time his work looked somewhat out of place.\n\nAs well as his \u003cem\u003eBlighty\u003c\/em\u003e contributions, book illustrations and advertising work, Ferrier also drew comic strips – \u003cem\u003eFilm Fannie, Eve, ITMA\u003c\/em\u003e (\"It's That Man Again\", based on a BBC radio comedy show) and \u003cem\u003eOur Dumb Blonde\u003c\/em\u003e, which ran in the \u003cem\u003eSunday Pictorial\u003c\/em\u003e for seven years from 1939 to 1946.\n\n\u003cem\u003eShowgirl Sirens\u003c\/em\u003e includes \u003cstrong\u003eRian Hughes's\u003c\/strong\u003e \"Spotlight on Ferrier\" along with Arthur Ferrier's \"Advice for the Novice\" and \"My Method.\"\n\nFerrier always preferred drawing directly from life, sketching a basic layout to resolve the composition and posing his models as required. He’d dress his studio with the specific chairs, dressers, tables and other furniture needed to achieve the right period effect. This is one of the reasons his work serves as such an interesting record of the fads and fashions of the times -- something he sought to achieve, reasoning that if an illustrator would do their research for a story set in a specific historical period, they should do their best to reflect their own time with the same attention to detail.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Korero Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59643786887454,"sku":"AFSSH","price":51.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/0684\/7006\/files\/afssh-arthur-ferriers-showgirl-sirens-book.jpg?v=1784518549","url":"https:\/\/shop.budsartbooks.com\/products\/arthur-ferriers-showgirl-sirens-1940-1949","provider":"Bud's Art Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}