Eric Stanton
Eric Stanton (September 30, 1926 – March 17, 1999; born Ernest Stanzoni) was an American bondage and fetish illustrator, cartoonist, and comic-book artist.
The majority of his work depicted female dominance scenarios.
Biography
Early life and career
Stanton was born and raised in New York City. In 2013, comics historian Ger Apeldoorn uncovered a military-themed daily panel, Tin Hats, distributed by the Bell Syndicate, credited simply "Stanton" but bearing a signature matching that found on Stanton's later work. It was syndicated from July 27, 1942 to November 18, 1944, beginning when Stanton was not quite 16. In 1948 and 1949, he was an art assistant to Boody Rogers on Sparky Watts for Columbia, or Babe for Prize Comics, supplying plot ideas. He began specializing in erotic bondage comics, which publisher Irving Klaw ran in his magazine Movie Star News. He then attended the Cartoonists and Illustrators School from 1954 to 1956, studying under comics artist Jerry Robinson and others. One classmate was future Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko. Another was Gene Bilbrew, whom he introduced to Klaw.
