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Alia Vulnavia Phibes is an American illustrator known for her slick, retro-inspired images, cartoons and pinups.
Phibes was born in Baltimore, she also lived in New Mexico and Colorado before settling in Brooklyn, New York in 1998.
Phibes worked as a commercial illustrator before founding her design studio, EvilKid Productions in 2000. Under the EvilKid moniker, Phibes has done the webcomic "Evilkid Comix" and currently produces the webcomic Kitty and Robot.
In her commercial illustration career, she illustrated the books "make me a Popstar" by Michelle Tauber and "Shaking Her Assets" by Robin Epstein and Renee Kaplan. In her limited fine art career, she has done solo shows at Blue Ruin gallery in Pittsburgh and at Trinity Art Gallery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She has also shown works in the Seattle Erotic Art Festival and the Dirty Show in Detroit. In 2005, she co-founded Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School, with Molly Crabapple. [1] [2] [3]
Phibes also spent a few years as a sideshow performer, doing fire-eating, escapism, glass walking, a bed of nails act and human blockhead. She was a member of the Modern Gypsies Sideshow and later the Pyrate Sisters All-Girl Sideshow (with whom she still occasionally performs). She has also acted in plays with the informal theater group "The Lion Pinball Players."
Blaze Starr was an American stripper and burlesque star. Her vivacious presence and inventive use of stage props earned her the nickname "The Hottest Blaze in Burlesque". She was also known for her affair with Louisiana Governor Earl Kemp Long. Based on her memoir Blaze Starr! My Life as Told to Huey Perry, the 1989 film Blaze told the story of that affair starring Paul Newman as Long and Lolita Davidovich as Starr, with Starr herself acting in a cameo role and as a consultant.
Danielle Stampe is a singer, dancer, set designer, and performance artist, best known for her work with Gwar as "Slymenstra Hymen." She has set records for fire breathing and voltage endurance.
Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue! is an American animated comedy series produced by Warner Bros. Animation, the tenth incarnation of Hanna-Barbera's Scooby-Doo franchise.
Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School is both a burlesque cabaret and life drawing event originating in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, at the Lucky Cat. Dr. Sketchy's was founded in New York City in 2005, by illustrator and former artist's model Molly Crabapple and illustrator A.V. Phibes who later left to attend to her design studio.
Lola the Vamp is an Australian dancer and part of the neo-burlesque movement. She is the only burlesque performer in theatrical history to perform burlesque as part of her submission for a PhD. She completed a creative component Ph.D. involving the production of creative product and thesis at Griffith University in Queensland. Her performance history began at the Neo-Burlesque festival, Tease-o-rama, in 2002. She has performed at Go Go Burlesco in Sydney, the Edinburgh Fringe, The Big Day Out, Woodford Folk Festival, Valley Fiesta and solo tours of the East Coast of Australia. She co-founded 34b Burlesque in Sydney in 2005, making regular appearances until its closure in 2012. She was the Australian Penthouse Pet of the Month in November 2007. In 2008 and 2012 she was a headliner of Tease-o-rama. From 2009 to 2011 she operated Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School in Brisbane. She has performed at the Australian Burlesque Festival every year since 2010 and headlined in 2013. She has also appeared in music videos and films. In 2013, she joined Australian band, Desert Blues Cartel as a guest singer and performer. They released the single, Ma Cherie, in 2014, and Lola also heads her own band, Irresolute. Lola headlined the Perth International Burlesque Festival 2015
Heather MacAllister was an American burlesque performer and social justice activist, whose work covered anti-racism, LGBT rights, and especially the fat acceptance movement. MacAllister performed on stage as Reva Lucian, a play on 'revolution', and Ms. Demeanor.
Molly Crabapple is an American artist and writer. She is a contributing editor for VICE and has written for a variety of other outlets, as well as publishing books, including an illustrated memoir, Drawing Blood (2015), Discordia on the Greek economic crisis, and the art books Devil in the Details and Week in Hell (2012). Her works are held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Barjeel Art Foundation and the New-York Historical Society.
Ulorin Vex is the stage name of Christiane Shillito, an alternative model and artist from Newcastle upon Tyne, England. She lives in Los Angeles, California. Her extensive list of credits include dozens of magazine features and covers, ad campaigns, billboards, and spans all genres from fashion to fetish and art nudes. She's also known for her dynamic and exaggerated posing
Megan Rose Gedris is a mostly self-taught American cartoonist, writer, and publisher whose most well-known comics include YU+ME:dream and I Was Kidnapped By Lesbian Pirates From Outer Space. They are commonly regarded for writing about the advancement of women, LGBTQIA+, sex and body-positivity within their work.
Donald Travis Stewart, known professionally as Trav S.D., is an American author, journalist, playwright and stage performer. He has been called a leading figure in the New Vaudeville and Indie Theater movements.
Missy Malone is a Scottish burlesque performer currently based in central England.
Anna Frangiosa is a Philadelphia-based theater artist, costume designer, burlesque performer, director, instructor and model.
Veronica Varlow is a burlesque dancer, pin-up model, actress, producer, and performance artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She was the owner of the former internet boutique Danger Dame, which specialized in clothing inspired by burlesque, cabaret, the 1940s and 1950s. More recently, Veronica has revamped her website in accordance with her focus on teaching magic and tarot - the website is now called Love Witch and features a new store named Love Witch Potions and Devotions. The new store offers incense blends, magical jewelry and other curios.
Marilyn Artus is a visual artist whose work explores the female experience. Marilyn has also been a curator, commercial artist, burlesque promoter, event planner and female artist mentor. She has created shows that explore the suffragist era in the U.S., paid tribute to an assortment of women in American history and most recently been using the American flag as a vehicle for feminist exploration.
Cheeming Boey is a Malaysian artist. Primarily known only by his last name Boey, he is best recognised by his illustrations on foam coffee cups, his daily webcomic I Am Boey, and his autobiographical graphic novel When I Was A Kid.
Katie Cook is an American comic artist and writer, currently employed by IDW Publishing. She writes the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic comic and is also known for her webcomics, Gronk and Nothing Special.
Kat Mon Dieu is a Marilyn Monroe tribute artist, neo-classical burlesque dancer, pin-up model, art school model, actress, producer, performance artist and writer based in New York. She was the producer of Dark Carnival Burlesque: a monthly show featuring an offbeat combination of burlesque and variety acts. Kat also was a freelance blogger for Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School
Aaron Hawks is an American multidisciplinary artist, best known for his conceptual fetish photography and installation art.
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Dainty Smith is a Toronto-based actor, playwright, and burlesque performer. She is the founder of Les Femmes Fatales: Women of Colour Burlesque Troupe, Canada's first burlesque troupe for Black women and women of colour, femmes and gender non-conforming persons. Her interdisciplinary work engages themes of glamour, afrofuturism, queer thriving, body positivity, and Blackness.
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