The Good Girl Art Of Bob Lubbers (Glamour International (Second Series) # 26)
(2001 - Glamour International)

As this issue of Glamour International Magazine focuses so much on a single artist, Bob Lubbers, I've given the 12-by-12-inch book its own separate, duplicate entry. While so much of Lubbers's career was as a 'ghost-artist' on Al Capp's LI'L ABNER newspaper comic strip (for which he clearly enjoyed being part of the endeavor), he seems most remembered for when he got out from under all that and worked on projects that he could put his own stamp on. His free-&-breezy mainstream style, especially as it applied to attractive women, garnered accolades far and wide. A strong foundation for that was built in the work he did in the 1950s comic-book heyday. This book is his own brief memoir of that long career (it also includes a checklist of his publication-appearances). 98 pages in all (with new paintings he did for the front & back covers), 58 of those pages let his art dominate, 11 in featured large reproductions. A lot of the other pages (non-art as this site counts them) is the exhibit of sequential art, strips & comic pages, that he worked on. Everything is clearly & concisely captioned. (Don't forget that, like most Glamour International publications, the main text appears here in English, French and Italian).