Vlad Tebbish, the Romanian Count (Tribute to BAC)

[Cynthia_Massol]

Hi 🙂

After a long time, here's another BAC classic remake I did yesterday evening 🙂

 

[Kalamos]

Țepeș.

 

[Cynthia_Massol]

Țepeș.

I kept the name given by BAC in his original artwork (from Dr. Soles' Illustrated History of TICKLING) 😉

 

[milagros317]

Great image! Thanks for sharing it here. 😀

 

[Kalamos]

I kept the name given by BAC in his original artwork (from Dr. Soles' Illustrated History of TICKLING) 😉

That one in particular is a weird piece of art.
Both male and female versions of it exist, often with spurious text.

And I honestly wonder who edited all of BAC's art for re-release.
Because there was something really weird about it - as if somebody else had touched up an upscaled scan.
When it was pointed out, they got really defensive about it.

And here I am, pointing out potential controversy in tickling history, again.

😀

 

[Cynthia_Massol]

That one in particular is a weird piece of art.
Both male and female versions of it exist, often with spurious text.

And I honestly wonder who edited all of BAC's art for re-release.
Because there was something really weird about it - as if somebody else had touched up an upscaled scan.
When it was pointed out, they got really defensive about it.

And here I am, pointing out potential controversy in tickling history, again.

😀

I've got both the original printed version from 1990 (with "Old English" gothic font)
and the remastered version from 2009 (with same caption text, but with "Times New Roman" font).
The original printed version was in portrait layout ; the remastered version had been stretched to fit in landscape layout inclined at 90°.
Anyway, this remastering has been made by BAC himself (even if the rotation/stretching looks "glitchy").

Now, about the alternate version featuring a tickled boy with a different caption text (in "Old English" gothic font, too),
it had been edited by Bob Carter (a.k.a. BobC1313 when he was on DeviantArt) ; Bob did several BAC classics remakes (at least 6 that I know).
Bob's style is recognizable by its "Victorian theme" and always featuring boys (close to Mark Twain's "Huck", Chaplin's "kid" or '50s cartoon boy),
sometimes as ticklee, or else tickling a "mature MILF" when they are ticklers.

 

[ghirighiri26]

Beautiful!!!

 

[Kalamos]

The original printed version was in portrait layout ; the remastered version had been stretched to fit in landscape layout inclined at 90°.
Anyway, this remastering has been made by BAC himself (even if the rotation/stretching looks "glitchy").

That was part of the controversy: people weren't sure the edits were done by BAC himself, or somebody pretending to be BAC.
A lot of his older stuff was in terrible conditions: crude photocopies on torn paper.
And the later edits were sometimes very basic, like the girl on the bed with the cut off feather.

 

[Cynthia_Massol]

That was part of the controversy: people weren't sure the edits were done by BAC himself, or somebody pretending to be BAC.
A lot of his older stuff was in terrible conditions: crude photocopies on torn paper.
And the later edits were sometimes very basic, like the girl on the bed with the cut off feather.

BAC used to make sometimes "alternate versions", with added or removed elements ;
for example, an additional character with speech, or laughters...
Surely because he started to make a comic strip scene, and later, remastered the scene in higher details without text for a portfolio.
Then, I think those "alternate versions" are mostly the result of the evolution of some scenes.
Also, some partial elements can be found on different scenes, slightly modified (by BAC himself).
Else, of course, many BAC classic artworks have been also edited by fans (mostly custom colors).

I can recognize in most cases if a BAC artwork is original or edited by a different artist.
It's more complex to determinate if an old artwork is by BAC or by another artist,
as his "proto-works" were more minimalist, sometimes not signed, and that other vintage artists had a similar style (CB, Smith, TKL, TR...).

Outside official BAC artworks (those that were sold on his stores), which are very high quality,
the unofficial BAC artworks can be high quality (Tobias Hackner original scans), medium quality (smaller resolution but still clear)
or low quality (multiple generation of Xerox copies, with dirty prints, parts nearly no longer visible or partially illisible text).

About the artwork you talk about, with "the girl on the bed with the cut off feather", I don't see which one it is...?
Is it the one with this caption : "WHENEVER BETTY WOULD MISBEHAVE ROBERT WOULD BE FORCED TO DISCIPLINE HIS TICKLISH YOUNG WIFE" ?
I have only seen maybe two original versions of it and a colorized one, but all of them having the same details...

 

[Kalamos]

About the artwork you talk about, with "the girl on the bed with the cut off feather", I don't see which one it is...?
Is it the one with this caption : "WHENEVER BETTY WOULD MISBEHAVE ROBERT WOULD BE FORCED TO DISCIPLINE HIS TICKLISH YOUNG WIFE" ?
I have only seen maybe two original versions of it and a colorized one, but all of them having the same details...

In both versions the husband is rolling up his sleeves, with the wife bound up, bent, to a bed.
In one version, the feather tip is cut off at the corner of the panel.
In the other version the scene shows more, but the tip is still cut off.

If I ever see it again, I'll repost it and compare details.

 

[Cynthia_Massol]

In both versions the husband is rolling up his sleeves, with the wife bound up, bent, to a bed.
In one version, the feather tip is cut off at the corner of the panel.
In the other version the scene shows more, but the tip is still cut off.

If I ever see it again, I'll repost it and compare details.

I don't see which artwork it is... Is it "The bitchy cheerleader" ?