He later produced cover illustrations for the humorama magazine. Bill ward is a genre writer, editor, and blogger wanted across the outer colonies for crimes against the written word. King of the glamour girls 20060730 by unknown isbn. Torchy is a comic strip and, primarily, a series of comic books featuring the ingenue torchy todd, created by the american good girl art cartoonist bill ward during 1944.
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