Lot 550: Comic Art by Bill Ward -- Vintage ''Good Girl Art''

Rare signed comic illustration by Bill Ward, the artist behind cartoon siren Torchy Todd. Single-panel ''Good Girl Art'' comic depicts a voluptuous, scantily-clad woman seated in front of a television. Her male companion reads a newspaper and chews on a pipe. Typed caption at the bottom reads, ''I hate these toilet paper ads. Why can't they talk about something everybody really uses?''. Signed at the lower left by Ward. This cartoon appeared in the cartoon book series ''Sex to Sexty'' in the late 1960's. Ink drawing measures 8.25'' x 7.5''. Some editing marks and Ward's notation of the gag line to verso. Irregularly trimmed right edge, else near fine.