R.I.P. Bettie Page

Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, December 11, 2008 10:57 PM |
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As Eric Reynold of Fantagraphics says: "First Dave Stevens, then Forrest J. Ackerman, and now Bettie Page. 2008 has been a brutal year for some of the icons of my Southern California adolescence." (Thanks, MinTphresh)

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#1 posted by Doran Author Profile Page, December 11, 2008 11:17 PM

Even though you know it's coming, it's still real sad.

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#2 posted by Lea Hernandez , December 11, 2008 11:55 PM

Dave was a long time friend, and I find myself happy that he and Bettie got to spend the last of their lives together.

RIP, Bettie, my good friend's best friend.

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#4 posted by Nword , December 12, 2008 12:18 AM

Aw damnit.

RIP Bettie.

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#5 posted by Anonymous , December 12, 2008 12:29 AM

As someone who was a young teenager in the early eighties, Dave Steven's artwork was very influential on me and it was his work that introduced me to Bettie Page.(his rendrings of here did anumber on me during puberty!) After learning more about her life, I gained an admiration for someone daring to follow the career path that she did during those times.

This really is a sad year for these losses...

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#6 posted by Pres , December 12, 2008 1:46 AM

Too bad I never met you.
Now back to working on that time machine...

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#7 posted by tuktuk , December 12, 2008 2:39 AM

wow. i was just at a digital mystikz show where the projectionist was splicing footage of bettie bootydancing with the dubstep. some of us stopped flopping around and just paused to reflect on how sexy and timeless she remained after all these years.

thank you, bettie davis, for breaking the ice. my sex life owes you so much.

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#8 posted by Alpinwolf , December 12, 2008 3:16 AM

I reject your reality and substitute my own:

Miss Bettie Page is, in fact, immortal.

*memories*

A woman with her hairdo will always make my heart skip.

OK, have to go, getting sad now.

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#9 posted by tuktuk , December 12, 2008 3:22 AM

oops. that fucking kim carnes song was stuck in my head

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#10 posted by Ed Brock , December 12, 2008 3:23 AM

2008 continues to suck!

George Carlin, Forry Ackerman, Dave Stevens, Stan
Winston, Richard Wright, Paul Newman, Beverly Garland & now Bettie Page.

So many greats. I'll miss them all.

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#11 posted by error404 , December 12, 2008 6:10 AM

Goodbye Bettie, you made a lot of people happy.

You'll be missed.

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#12 posted by edgore Author Profile Page, December 12, 2008 6:15 AM

I still say that as long as there are Internets, Betty will always remain with us.

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#13 posted by Bender , December 12, 2008 6:38 AM

RIP Bettie Page. thanks to the internet though, you will exist in spank banks forever!

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#14 posted by Anonymous , December 12, 2008 6:42 AM

RIP indeed, to someone whose irrepressible smile showed the world that naughtiness is no sin.

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#15 posted by karrock , December 12, 2008 7:15 AM

Bettie Page, your image will live on forever... RIP...

Does anyone know where that illustration comes from?

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#16 posted by error404 , December 12, 2008 7:37 AM

#12 BENDER

I think it was the cover of the comic The Bettie Pages.

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#17 posted by calsterino , December 12, 2008 8:19 AM

It is a full page from a Rocketeer comic story by Dave Stevens. It was also reprinted as a poster. One of the interesting things about the poster is that no matter from which angle the poster is viewed, the eyes of the figures (both the photographer and the model) appear to be looking at the viewer.

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#18 posted by John Hudgens , December 12, 2008 8:20 AM

It's from "The Rocketeer".

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#20 posted by arkizzle , December 12, 2008 8:48 AM

"I was never the girl next door."

"I like being outdoors. I like to go cavorting in the nude in the forests. It is just another world. To take sunbaths in the nude."

"It makes me feel wonderful that people still care for me... that I have so many fans among young people, who write to me and tell me I have been an inspiration."

RIP Betty Paige

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#21 posted by absimiliard , December 12, 2008 9:11 AM

*sigh*

Sadness.

-abs is a bit too young to have appreciated Betty when she was making the material that made her famous, in fact he wasn't alive, but damn he's had a crush on her ever since he found out who she is

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#22 posted by Anonymous , December 12, 2008 8:59 PM

Please, God, take her in Your arms and help her waiting for us, till we can meet her again.

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#23 posted by Sork , December 13, 2008 11:58 AM

#17 calsterino

"no matter from which angle the poster is viewed, the eyes of the figures (both the photographer and the model) appear to be looking at the viewer."

That is true for every photo or artwork where the eyes are pointed at the camera/observer.

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#24 posted by Anonymous , December 13, 2008 12:21 PM

@#10
You forgot Gary Gygax.

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#25 posted by phelion , December 14, 2008 2:56 AM

I have scheduled a tribute segment to remember Bettie at the New York Rubber Ball/Miss Rubber World next month in NYC on Jan. 18th. Without her there would be no fetish scene, so I think it's vital that we remember our own.

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