1935), drawn in the hand of "Elmer Zilch", showing the "Ornate Border" design. Blackjack drew a set of ten comics using characters from Snow White, with each of the seven dwarfs starring in his own X-rated title. Prolific featured radio stars, including Joe Penner and Kate Smith. Prolific" was based on famous gangsters Legs Diamond, Al Capone, and Machine Gun Kelly were featured, while the artist working under the alias "Elmer Zilch" drew a set of eight comics about famous boxers such as Jack Dempsey. An entire series of ten bibles drawn by "Mr.
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By far the most popular celebrity character was Mae West, but virtually every major Hollywood star of the era was featured in the Tijuana bibles.Ī popular comic strip character such as Tillie or Blondie might appear in as many as 40 eight-pagers drawn by ten artists. Ten years later, an entire series of bibles by one unknown artist obscenely lampooned Wallis Simpson and the King of England. The first celebrity bibles were based on real-life newspaper tabloid sex scandals such as the Peaches and Daddy Browning case which made headlines in 1926. Making the most appearances in the bibles, Popeye and Blondie were the most popular characters in the 1930s. Tillie was soon followed by Winnie Winkle, Dumb Dora, Dixie Dugan, Fritzi Ritz, Ella Cinders, and other familiar comic strip characters stamped in the same mold.
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Tillie and Mac are thought to have been the first Tijuana bible stars, along with Maggie and Jiggs from the popular newspaper strip Bringing Up Father. The typical bible was an eight-panel comic strip in a wallet-sized 2.5 in × 4 in (64 mm × 102 mm) format with black print on cheap white paper and running eight pages in length. Tijuana bibles featured ethnic stereotypes found in popular culture at the time, although one Tijuana bible ("You Nazi Man") concluded on a serious note with a brief message from the publisher pleading for greater tolerance in Germany for the Jews. The subjects consisted of explicit sexual escapades, usually featuring well-known newspaper comic strip characters, movie stars, and (rarely) political figures, invariably used without respect for either copyright or libel law and without permission. The quality of the artwork varied widely. The artists, writers, and publishers of these booklets generally remained anonymous as their publication was illegal and clandestine. Before World War II, almost all the stories were humorous, cartoon versions of well-known dirty jokes that had been making the rounds for decades.
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Fields, Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, The Marx Brothers, Cary Grant, Jean Harlow, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Joe Louis, sometimes with names only subtly changed. Others made use of characters based on popular movie and sports stars of the day such as Mae West, W.C. Most Tijuana bibles were obscene parodies of popular newspaper comic strips at the time, such as " Blondie", " Barney Google", " Moon Mullins", " Popeye", " Tillie the Toiler", " The Katzenjammer Kids", " Dick Tracy", " Little Orphan Annie", and " Bringing Up Father". Their popularity peaked during the Great Depression era. Tijuana bibles (also known as eight-pagers, Tillie-and-Mac books, Jiggs-and-Maggie books, Jo-Jo books, bluesies, blue-bibles, gray-backs, and two-by-fours) were palm-sized erotic comics produced in the United States from the 1920s to the early 1960s.
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Prolific", which borrowed the syndicated comic strip character Chris Crusty created by Bill Conselman and Charles Plumb for a topper strip which ran above their Ella Cinders For the 2000 punk album, see Tijuana Bible (album).įinal page of the Tijuana bible Chris Crusty, drawn by "Mr.