R.I.P. Bettie Page
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)
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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Even though you know it's coming, it's still real sad.
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.
Nice little tribute video of Bettie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1Z1V11b8OI
Aw damnit.
RIP Bettie.
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...
Too bad I never met you.
Now back to working on that time machine...
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.
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.
oops. that fucking kim carnes song was stuck in my head
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.
Goodbye Bettie, you made a lot of people happy.
You'll be missed.
I still say that as long as there are Internets, Betty will always remain with us.
RIP Bettie Page. thanks to the internet though, you will exist in spank banks forever!
RIP indeed, to someone whose irrepressible smile showed the world that naughtiness is no sin.
Bettie Page, your image will live on forever... RIP...
Does anyone know where that illustration comes from?
#12 BENDER
I think it was the cover of the comic The Bettie Pages.
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.
It's from "The Rocketeer".
Waaah!
"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
*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
Please, God, take her in Your arms and help her waiting for us, till we can meet her again.
#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.
@#10
You forgot Gary Gygax.
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.