Belle Fatale

[Text by Amberle Ferrian]

"Belle Fatale" (belfatle.gif, 408x765x2, 10816 bytes) is another fanart drawing by Bob Ito <ito@[...]>.

This picture is NOT part of the regular "Ito Galleries, Inc." series created for the readers of the rec.arts.disney newsgroup, and recipients of this picture are asked not to repost or distribute this particular picture either by BBS or anonymous FTP.

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And now, we switch over to Bob himself for the description. Bob?

Thanks, Amberle. Don't bucket me while I'm talking, okay? :-)

Some of you may wonder where I get ideas for drawings. Sometimes I'll see an image that really lends itself to a parody - for example, the Mona Lisa, or J. W. Waterhouse's painting "A Mermaid." Well, a while back I saw a magazine cover (Femme Fatales, Winter 1994) which is itself a parody of several recent magazine covers that share a similar pose (the latest of these was a well-known publication with Reagan daughter Patti Davis on the cover, and a similar cover of Janet Jackson on "Rolling Stone" was just posted to alt.binaries.pictures.misc). Anyways, when I saw that FF cover, it seemed obvious to substitute a couple of characters from a certain animated feature, and the result is this drawing. And, if "Rolling Toon" magazine ever gets off the ground, here's the cover for the first issue :-).

(BTW, I did see the cover of the July issue of Esquire, but I'm not planning on doing a parody of that cover. I pointed that out to Amberle, and got a massive bucketing for my pains. :-))

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