Tickles from the Past

[oman]

Remember the old days of tickle art? When the toes of the feet could move like fingers and the ticklish situations were wild and out there? Well I'd like everyone to post some old art and I mean from like the 1980s old. If you have any pics from those old days come and post it up here! 🙂

 

[UBU]

Agreed, enthusiastically! Gotta love the old school.

Sadly, that's what I have to contribute. UBU stands for Upper Body and a Mayan word I cannot pronounce. The first letter looks like a "U", but that's all I know about the Mayan alphabet.

Fiddlin' and grinnin', my best guess is that y'all footies outnumber me and my fellow travelers by at least four to one.

Somebody'll be around.

 

[oman]

Alright, if you see anything let me know

 

[oman]

Anyone else?

 

[Dr. Bill Kobb]

The best I can offer you is a similarly enthusiastic thumbs-up, oman. Out of curiosity: Are these pre-Net works you are after? Or ones from the relatively early days of the Web? I occasionally run across older looking stuff rooting around in some dusty newsgroups. Most of what I've ever managed to find, I've probably long-since posted. I love finding really, REALLY old works incorporating tickling. There's probably older threads either here or at the TMF with some classics in `em. Might be a grueling search, though. Both site have such enormous backlogs of material. Check over in the Theater version of a links-section. There's a gal who's been part of the tickling community since way back. She maintains a big honking database of tickling stories and art and such.

Hey - If you do find what you're looking for, post `em to this thread, so I'll have something to compare in case I run across any.

 

[oman]

Thanks rick old pal, I'm just looking for tickle art from waaaay back thanks

 

[Kujman1]

Thanks rick old pal, I'm just looking for tickle art from waaaay back thanks

Such as Robert Bishop?

 

[Dr. Bill Kobb]

Well, the era's about right, and Bishop always spruces up a thread.
Bishop was like the Richard Corben of B&D art. I mean that in the best possible way. Whatever became of him, anyhow?

I always wondered about the illustrator who created all of those clean, crisp pen-&-ink illustrations for the Lyndon Dist. bondage mags of the 80's/early 90's. Obviously the hand of a journeyman. There's no telling how many legit comic-books he drew/inked over the years before hitting the S&M gutters.

 

[oman]

Robert Bishop eh?

 

[Kujman1]

Well, the era's about right, and Bishop always spruces up a thread.
Bishop was like the Richard Corben of B&D art. I mean that in the best possible way. Whatever became of him, anyhow?

He was the greatest of the greats, and a personal friend through all my years at House of Milan. Though there were many years between us, they all vanished in the many common threads we had - bondage, old movies, and motorcycles being three of them. He was my mentor of sorts, and as he often said- I was his because I actually did what he drew about. He backed my whole idea of Tied & Tickled magazine from the start while others scoffed at tickling ever being it's own fetish and said the magazine was doomed for failure.. but because of his backing and offering up his artwork for it, they went along with my idea and it was a great success.

His shading and airbrushing were fantastic, but more so the erotic panic of the tortured ladies were caught perfectly in a grimace or the strain on a limb.

While he could be difficult to get along with for some, I think it was just the artist's mentality at work. He was a loner. He was passionate. His artwork was fantastic. He hated cheap garbage and wouldn't bow to such. He always said for me to keep those standards.. and I have.

Few knew Bish well, I think I did to a point. He loved old movies as I did. Because I was in entertainment, he took my first 8X10 headshots. He backed away from the bdsm community when all the cheap T&A magazines hit the market and advised me to do the same. He had no interest at all in the Internet. We stayed in touch, saw him whenever possible, wrote back and forth, rode a few times, then his health started to fade a bit.. more so, I think he was just bored and tired of life.

Bish took his own life just after his 46th birthday. We'd spoken a month before. I'd sent him a video and he was going to doodle a cover for it.

None of us ever saw it coming. I remember the hole it left in me, and still leaves to this day.

On my office wall I have a few original drawings he made just for me, one following my sorority exploits. They're probably worth a mint now. They've never been seen by the public, signed to me by him, and only those that attend my private theme events have glimpsed them.

As long as they hang on my wall, he's still alive to me.

Kuj

 

[Rox_My_Sox1]

Hmmm...some old tickles from the 80's eh? Do you mean pics? If so, there should still be some old London/HOM tickle pics on the net. I seem to recall some very luscious pics of one Tori Sinclair bound on a wooden rack and tickle tortured with a pic feather by a brunette woman. Anyone have a pics of that or know what vid/company that was? Also seem to recall Ashley Renee staring in some old tickle vids by Harmony Concepts. What about VidTech Productions? Didn't they used to be around awhile back? I seem to recall they had A LOT of tickle torture vids.

 

[oman]

You got any vids, you can post them 🙂

 

[Dr. Bill Kobb]

That was a beautiful memorial to Bishop from kujman1. Here are a couple of his tickling-inspired pieces that I imagine were a part of those early Tied & Tickled mags:

 

[oman]

Great finds, anything else?