Eight-Pagers are pornographic eight page comic books mainly from the 1920-30’s and sometimes known by the cringe-worthy label ’Tijuana Bibles’. Working way outside copyright laws, the original Eight-Pagers showed current comic book, comic strip and movie stars in imaginary sexual situations.
In 1975, “Pure Art” first appeared in print on the covers of a second series of Pure Art Eight-Pagers. In the spirit of Premium Crackers, the Pure Art Eight-Pagers had more to do with Dada than pornography. While working up this post, I thought a 2024 Eight-Pager that drew from the image style of my latest paintings would be fun to do. It was.