MISS MEATFACE & HER MEATMAID: A new photo-story booklet from Miss Meatface (Kat Toronto) BANNER: Meatface and Meatmaid ‘Babycakes’ on the trail of the Naughty Nanny Knitting Ninjas
Miss Meatface & Her Meatmaid: a Kat Toronto photo-story booklet
MISS MEATFACE & HER MEATMAID
Photography by Kat Toronto
(A Miss Meatface Meatrix Publication:
£10/£12 + shipping from Big Cartel)
Review by Tony Mitchell
Way back in the mists of time, a chap called Irving Klaw, who had a mail order business in 1950s New York called Movie Star News, had a lightbulb moment.
Movie Star News sold fetish and bondage photos of models — including, most notably, the young Bettie Page (then known as Betty).
Klaw realised that, as well as selling his prints by mail, either individually or in sets, there would probably be a market for complete photo stories featuring the same kind of content, but published in pocket-booklet format, and designed to be sold in certain stores and even carried on newsstands.
He launched the Nutrix Publishing Company as a vehicle for this concept, and for a while was pretty successful putting out these comic-style, all black-and-white creations featuring sequential scenes that were captioned to help drive their somewhat fanciful storylines along.
At some point in the 1960s, Nutrix ran into difficulties that led to the imprint being superseded by Mutrix, which continued to purvey Nutrix’s distinctive style of photo-stories for some years more.
Then in 1966, ABC Television in the US premiered its new tongue-in-cheek, heavily kitch and comic book-influenced series Batman, starring Adam West and Burt Ward.
The TV duo’s weekly fight scenes with the bad guys were accompanied by cartoonish on-screen sound-effect graphics — “Wham!!!”, “Cruuuunch!!!” etc — that closely mimicked the visual style of contemporary and indeed earlier comix artists.
It’s unlikely that either Klaw or ABC TV would have dreamt that, in some future universe, the kinky photo-story style of Nutrix and the gaudy comic kitch of TV’s Batman would be melded into some new hybrid medium, rendered in full-colour, neon-bright booklet form.
But that is what has now happened, with publication by the UK-based artist Kat Toronto of a booklet featuring her alter ego Miss Meatface. Promised to be the first in a new Miss Meatface & Her Meatmaid series, it aims to slake a thirst for kitsch ’n’ kink that you may not have even realised you had.
Taking combined inspiration from those very vintage sources mentioned above, this A6-size publication packs three short, sweet and cheeky photo-stories into 16 glossy 150gsm pages tucked between 350gsm covers. It can be yours for just £10 (or £12 if you opt for a signed copy) plus shipping.
Miss Meatface & Her Meatmaid Vol 1 No 1 opens with Sneaky Sniffs, documenting Meatmaid’s surreptitious enjoyment of the aroma of mistress’s discarded high heels. Clowning Around, up next, illustrates the consequences of getting caught while up to mischief in Meatface’s Meatpalace.
Finally, Etiquette Emergency presents the first episode of a story due to be continued in a future edition. Personally I can’t wait to find out how Miss Meatface and her trusty Meatmaid ‘Babycakes’ deal with the Naughty Nanny Knitting Ninjas who’ve taken over the local library. How very dare they?!
Existing fans of Kat Toronto’s distinctive Miss Meatface alter ego will need little persuading to part with the modest sum necessary to add this latest creation to their collections.
While for those to whom Meatface is a phenomenon yet to be explored, this colourful yet compact product surely provides the perfect place to start!
Tags: Artists, Book Releases, Fetish Photography
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