I'm so bummed out I need to write a little more
about me and Papa Bear
B4 porn was legal the only naked females you could see
were air brushed nudist colony stuff.
Then along came Art Kunkin and OPEN CITY
the first "sex rag" to print nudity and pubic hairs.
The poet Charles Bukowski started there. It eventually morphed into one of the first anti-war, alternative, underground press, the L.A. FREE PRESS.
It had another paper inside it called the FREEP.
That's where I ended up till Larry Flynt bought it
and got shot.
The new editor was David Levine who eventually started the super successful L.A. Weekly.
At that time porn was in ascension and there were a lot of
spin off sex rags came out, such as Yes and Lust.
LUST
was Bill's baby. That's where and how I met him. I did
cartoons and illustrations. For a short time I was known as the porno cartoon king.
Back then I decided I needed a pen name. My name was Eddie so I thought of the character Fast Eddie, played by Paul Newman in the movie
the Hustler with Jackie Gleason. I'd call my self "Fast Eddie". Trouble was suddenly there was a sea of Fast Eddie's so I one upped them and called my self Flash Eddie. For a while it was the Hollywood Flash.
Bill operated out of a dusty hole in the wall office in Eddie (Nasty Nash) Nasherelli's office building across from the Chinese Graumen theater on Hollywood Blvd.
Go to You-tube and look up the "Wonderland Murders".
Go to You-tube and look up the "Wonderland Murders".
I don't think there was a door on the office. There was a back room with a bed that saw lot'sa action.
I remember a conversation with him where he claimed to be
brave for doing porn. I didn't think his bushy hair and glasses made him attractive as a porn star.
Eventually we parted ways as my life spiraled down a rabbit hole. After many years I re-established contact with him.
By then he was with the last of the sex rags the popular L.A. Express.
I visited him for the first and last time in Jan of 2015.
Those photos are in the previous post.
After that he did a full page spread of me on the back cover.
He told me that they cut him down to a half page. He did not get paid. I tried to encourage him to forget print media and go digital as in a blog.
Next thing he was doing a talk show for Mike Merlino on xxxpornstarradio.
I called in a couple of times. I told him that old ladies
in my building had discovered I use to be a porn star and were harassing me. He laffed.
Last Tuesday I meant to call in. I looked at the clock.
It was late. I tried to get him but there was only silence.
It was already too late.
William Margold
1943-2017
RIP
Papa Bear. My life was enriched by your presence.
Papa Bear had a Teddy Bear fetish. He scolded me for
this cartoon, saying Teddy Bears don't have dicks.
I remember a conversation with him where he claimed to be
brave for doing porn. I didn't think his bushy hair and glasses made him attractive as a porn star.
Eventually we parted ways as my life spiraled down a rabbit hole. After many years I re-established contact with him.
By then he was with the last of the sex rags the popular L.A. Express.
I visited him for the first and last time in Jan of 2015.
Those photos are in the previous post.
After that he did a full page spread of me on the back cover.
He told me that they cut him down to a half page. He did not get paid. I tried to encourage him to forget print media and go digital as in a blog.
Next thing he was doing a talk show for Mike Merlino on xxxpornstarradio.
I called in a couple of times. I told him that old ladies
in my building had discovered I use to be a porn star and were harassing me. He laffed.
Last Tuesday I meant to call in. I looked at the clock.
It was late. I tried to get him but there was only silence.
It was already too late.
William Margold
1943-2017
RIP
Papa Bear. My life was enriched by your presence.
Papa Bear had a Teddy Bear fetish. He scolded me for
this cartoon, saying Teddy Bears don't have dicks.
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