The Art of Salacious Bawdry

Hello. This blog is all about pinup art, which means you're going to see a bunch of nude, semi-nude, and badass chicks, usually brandishing swords, skulls, and kisses. What follows is a post I wrote on my other blog, Doomslakers, that sums up what Blood Red Pinups is all about.

Read on, dear reader...

Ice ninjas? Fuck yeah.

Ah, the scantily clad femme fatale of fantasy. Long have I viewed and dreamed of her. I fondly remember being an adolescent boy and picking up the Savage Sword of Conan each month from a local mini mart shelf. I grabbed issue #104 and spent far too long looking at the delicious Joe Jusko cover, complete with redhead chick dangling from Conan's sword belt showing all kinds of underboob.

Sexist? Oh yeah, no doubt about it. Conan stories in general are sexist as fuck. If you don't believe me, try reading Howard. Check out The Jewels of Gwahlur and note how many times the damsel breaks down in tears or faints. It's classic 1930s hard man storytelling.

Anyhow... I appreciate a good chainmail bikini. There's a rich aesthetic to it... a kind of metal-and-flesh eroticism that stirs the imagination (and loins, natch). You can do it right. You can do it without being toxic. I have preached about this before. A chainmail bikini image does not a misogynist make. Having your female characters constantly faint and cry... well, that's a different story.

So for me it's really a matter of honesty. Own what you are doing. Don't give me 60 pages of tits and ass and market it as a serious adventure story. It isn't. It's a tits and ass story. Own it.

Erotic, chainmail chick, pinup, R-rated... whatever you want to call it. Just eat the god damned cheesecake and stop calling it caviar. And if you want to do a story that is taken seriously, you need to cut way the fuck back on the cheesecake.

MY NEFARIOUS PLANS FOR THIS BLOG SPACE

First, owing to the fact that I'm at least a little bit obsessed with pinup art, I needed a place to put it all. Images like the one to the right simply don't fit very well into my other venues. I have friends who don't enjoy this kind of work and since it is qualitatively of a different stripe than maybe Cozmic Metal Heads or even Black Pudding, I wanted to give this part of my creative life its own space to breathe. If you aren't into this, click away with my best wishes. This isn't for everyone, I understand.

Which leads me to another thing I'd like to do: explore the entire enterprise of pinup art. It has a long and storied history and I'd love to explore it, understand it, critique it honestly, and celebrate it passionately.

Which leads me to the other thing I want to do: present and explore various artists who have been or are currently doing pinup art. Also, to celebrate other media, such as music and movies, in which the female form is presented in a bawdy mode.

If this sounds good to you, then put this blog on your radar and I'll try to post something as often as I can. You can also follow me on Instagram where I post my pinups @bloodreddm.

Let's rock and roll.