Torchy

Nome:
Nome original: Torchy
Licenciador: Quality Comics
Criado por:
Bill Ward

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Em 1946, a editora Quality, talvez percebendo que o mercado estava mudando e que os super-heróis guerreiros estavam com os dias contados, trocou, naquele mesmo ano, o nome da revista “Military Comics” para “Modern Comics” e lá lançou a loira Torchy, que desfilava pelos quadrinhos na maior parte das vezes usando um lingerie preto. A gostosona era uma criação de Bill Ward e, em 1949, ganhou revista própria. Desapareceu quando a Quality jogou a toalha para a DC, voltando só ocasionalmente, em edições especiais e reprises.

- Antônio Luiz Ribeiro

Torchy was about a fantastically good looking woman with a fetish for incredibly high heels who invariably got into jams, unusually involving crooks of some kind. Torchy has it’s fans and while I have to admire the skill of artist Bill Ward I can’t number myself among them. Your mileage may vary,but for me sexy is about being comfortable, so I’m afraid the strips fetishistic focus on painfully high heels is a real turnoff. Wow, those things might have been painful to wear.
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Remasterizadas

Bill Ward (1919-1998) was a very fine cartoonist with an extra-special talent for drawing beautiful women. It was his bread-and-butter for over five decades. When Ward had a character such as Torchy to draw he made her the focus of the panel. The men he drew in those strips, and what must be thousands of gag cartoons done over several decades, just didn't get the attention the girls did. Of course they didn't! We don't look at Torchy to see guys. We want to see beautiful, bosomy, long-stemmed girls strutting proudly in shoes that would cripple most women. (Even when she's getting a treatment at a spa, as in this tall tale, she's wearing stilettos.) No matter that this story is from a long time ago — 1947 — Torchy is as modern in her sexiness as she was when Ward did his lovingly rendered drawings of her.

From Modern Comics #58 (1947):