This interview with Model and artist Kristie California was conducted back in April 2012 by Tom Heckbert for the now-defunct website Eyestrane.com. It’s been republished at Idol Features courtesy of Tom.
The super-glamorous Joi Lansing was a multi-talented actress, singer, and model who really should’ve been a bigger star than she was, given her combination of beauty and ability.
There is no industry-established criteria for earning Scream Queen status, but if there were, Deborah Dutch, who’s one of the premiere Scream Queens in the industry, would well exceed whatever the standard were set.
“Bare Escape,” was scanned from Main Enterprises’ *PPFSZT! Color Annual No. 1, published in 2012. If you know what to look for, you can see that my pencils were still pretty rough.
Bettie Page is probably the undisputed cheesecake queen. A very prolific magazine, figure and photo club model during the 1950s, seemingly millions of photos were taken of her in just about every situation imaginable.
Here’s Scream Queen icon Debra Lamb’s self-shot video of her getting her almost completely nude body painted for the art event, “The Painted Body,” at the Amera HQ in Downtown Los Angeles.
My favorite image from this episode of Betsy the Bookwriter is the back cover (above right) of Main Enterprises PRESENTS No. 7. Enjoy the entire story featured here.