Bill Wenzel

Page of Wenzel original art. Cigarette girl: "$1.00 a pack ... $100 if you pick them up at my place after 2 a.m." William Michael Wenzel (January 22, 1918 – May 12, 1987) was an American cartoonist best known as a widely published good girl artist for men's magazines.

Biography Bill Wenzel was born in Irvington, New Jersey and grew up in nearby Union Township. His parents were from Hungary. Wenzel's work, which featured busty, big-eyed, yet innocently risque young women, was published in such magazines and digests as Gaze, Joker, Jest, Comedy, and Stare. Most captions were written by the artist himself.

In 1979, after having lived almost 30 years in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, Wenzel and his family moved to Naples, Florida, where he died in 1987 of lung cancer.