United States
• 1919
- 1988
Biography
Born in 1919, Bill Ward was an American cartoonist. He graduated from the Pratt Institute, New York in 1941.
Ward's comics featured risqué illustrations of hyper-sexualised women, a staple of the Good Girl Art genre. During his time serving in the army, he was commissioned to create comic strips to keep the soldiers in high spirits. This series would eventually become Torchy, the comic for which Ward was most widely known.
Ward also authored and created illustrations for erotic stories which featured in men's magazines Leg Show and Juggs. Ward died in New Jersey, in 1988.
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The year of birth of the artist is: 1919