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Good Girl Art (GGA) is a style of artwork depicting women primarily featured in comic books, comic strips, and pulp magazines. [1] The term was coined by the American Comic Book Company, appearing in its mail order catalogs from the 1930s to the 1970s, [2] and is used by modern comic experts to describe the hyper-sexualized version of femininity depicted in comics of the era.
Although the exact number varies slightly between measurements, the National Gang Center estimates that females account for roughly 10% of all gang members. [3] The National Youth Gang survey found that 39% of gangs report having female members, [4] but this statistic is largely dependent on geographical location.
An iconic Gibson Girl portrait by its creator, Charles Dana Gibson, circa 1891 The Gibson Girl was the personification of the feminine ideal of physical attractiveness as portrayed by the pen-and-ink illustrations of artist Charles Dana Gibson during a 20-year period that spanned the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States. [1]
A gun moll or gangster moll or gangster's moll is the female companion of a male professional criminal. "Gun" was British slang for thief, derived from Yiddish ganef ( גנבֿ ). [ 1 ] " Moll" is also used as a euphemism for a woman prostitute.
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[1] [2] The "bad girl" art trend was derived from the exaggerated visual styles of the male and female form first used in the late 80s by artists such as Rob Liefeld and Jim Lee. The precursors to the trend were Vampirella, created by Forrest J Ackerman and publisher James Warren in 1969, and Marvel Comics' Elektra, created by Frank Miller in 1981.
It is an oft-repeated urban legend that Gibson's wife and her elegant Langhorne sisters inspired his famous Gibson Girls, who became iconic images in early 20th-century society. The truth is that the first Gibson Girl appeared in 1890, more than two years before Gibson ever met the Langhorne family, and in later years it became fashionable for ...