![]() ![]() The subjects are explicit sexual escapades usually featuring well known newspaper comic strip characters, movie stars, and (rarely) political figures, invariably used without respect for either copyright or libel law and without permission. The quality of the artwork varied widely. Illegal, clandestine, and anonymous, the artists, writers, and publishers of these booklets are generally unknown. Before the war, almost all the stories were humorous and frequently were cartoon versions of well-known dirty jokes that had been making the rounds for decades. ![]() Others made use of characters based on popular movie stars and sports stars of the day, like Mae West and Joe Louis, sometimes with names thinly changed. Most Tijuana bibles were obscene parodies of popular newspaper comic strips of the day, like " Blondie", " Barney Google", " Moon Mullins", " Popeye", " Tillie the Toiler", " Dick Tracy", " Little Orphan Annie", and " Bringing Up Father". Their popularity peaked during the Great Depression era. Tijuana bibles (also known as eight-pagers, Tillie-and-Mac books, Jiggs-and-Maggie books, jo-jo books, bluesies, gray-backs, and two-by-fours) were little palm-sized pornographic comic books produced in the United States from the 1920s to the early 1960s. ![]()
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