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llhuydd and other McQuade fans…
My name is Fritz. Perhaps some of you know me from my time as a former regular on The GIMP (currently offline) and occasional contributor to other female peril sites like DFN. I’ve been collecting fetish art (as well as fiction and vids) on the ‘net since the BBS and Usenet days preceding the web. Before that, since the early 70’s, I’ve rounded up a fair amount of hardcopy material from adult bookstores and specialty shops around the world. That’s where I first came across Jim McQuade’s art. At first, I found relatively tame (non-nude) ‘zines at comic shops – lots of battle scenes with Vikings and Valkyries, but with decidedly death-fetish overtones.
In the 1980’s, I discovered several more explicit softcover mags, including the first
Misty compilation from Nuance and its sequel,
Misty and the Sun Jewel. In 1986, I picked up the
Doomed Courier / Undertaker’s Treasure double feature in an adult bookstore in Chicago (the day of the Chernobyl disaster). I still have all these hardcopy offerings as well as a number of comics I traded by snail mail in the late 80’s. Some I have not seen published on the ‘net, so I suppose I should get scanning.
A few years ago I digitized
Doomed Courier in a higher quality than the pitiful version that had been circulating online for over a decade. As I was running The GIMP comics section at the time, I uploaded it there. llhuydd was quick to grab it and replaced his weather beaten scan with mine (no credit… but that’s par for the course these days). So what you’re seeing in this rare title is my handiwork. I need to do the same with
Undertaker’s Treasure, which is also available only in a low-res scan.
The original
Misty is available online in pieces, scanned from the series of eight (?) zines in which it was first released to comic distributors. I have not seen a complete scan of the larger full-length booklet – so I guess that is another project for me. For those of you lucky enough to have a soft or hardcopy of
Misty and the Sun Jewel and plan to scan it, I can save you some time. I was 90% through getting the job done when this discussion inspired me to finish the work by touching up the scans and compiling it as a PDF. I have attached it to this post, so have at it.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/7ajoti9h ... l.pdf/file
I’ll also root through some other McQuade material I have, in case it is not already in Ilhuydd’s collection. I have not been at the GIMP for a few years, and as the site seems to be in hiatus or in its death throes, I can also move material I archived there to this site if anyone is interested. The content involves female peril, but those who know me will expect that most of it also includes femme fatalities at the climax. Being a cunning linguist (five languages:-), I have scanned, enhanced and translated a number of European fumetti which feature our favorite subject matter. Anyone interested in these? Or in vintage comics dating back 50 years or more? I also write fiction and have created femme fatality 3D art tales. I’m sure some has already circulated around the community, but how much overlap there is between sites, I have no idea. At The GIMP, I dropped out because feedback was non-existent and dialogue was equally bereft. Perhaps Femme Fatalities generates more interest, but judging by the fiction section, there is no more enthusiasm for stories here than elsewhere.
I’d like to thank llhuydd for the many McQuade posts in this thread. I have done a good deal of scanning myself, and I know it is tedious, unrewarding work, usually with no more than one or two thank-yous by dedicated fans. llhuydd's material posted here is mostly new to me, and as it looks to be recent, I suspect much of it is from commissions. In any case, I appreciate both his and McQuade’s generosity in sharing it. I was in touch with the man himself in the late 80’s… just a couple of letters, but sadly I could not afford the custom projects I was hoping for at the time. Now, I am overwhelmed by an embarrassment of riches, so the least I can do is share something myself.
Fritz