Sweet Gwendoline offers a glimpse into rare survivals from this early pre- Bizarre period in Australia and work for the Harrison magazines. He also sold photographs taken in Australia to Irving Klaw and shot a series of bondage photographs. He worked for a short period in the late 1940s for Harrison producing artwork for magazines like Beauty Parade. Willie was self-taught but had obvious native talent and a good eye.Īfter the war Willie moved to North America, finally settling in New York, and began publishing Bizarre on an irregular schedule in 1946. Bizarre magazine is Willie’s continuation of some of London Life’s themes: fetish costumes, personal letters, fetish photography.
John Willie while in Australia, he was born in England, in the mid-1930s began producing artwork and photographs influenced by the English magazine London Life. That’s not a bad way to dive in John Willie’s work and output since his publications, photography, and comics interweave throughout the second half of his life. The next purchase was this volume, The Adventures of Sweet Gwendoline, devoted to Willie’s artwork, principally his comics, but also including artwork for late 1940s Harrison publications and stand alone works. Then I found a copy of Possibilities, published in France (1985), of Willie’s bondage photographs. I bought the two volume Taschen reprint of Willie’s Bizarre magazine. The order in which I purchased books by or about John Willie (a pseudonym used by John Alexander Scott Coutts, 1902-1962) followed a natural progression of sorts. This is the second edition, 1999, in hard cover. The Adentures of Sweet Gwendoline by John Willie, edited by J.
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