“Betty Boop is best remembered for her red-hot jazz baby persona. With a head like a giant peanut, vast mascara’d eyes, too-kissable lips, baby-doll voice […], flattened marcelled hair, and mere threads of a dress exposing miles of hot flesh, she was the perfect celluloid sex toy.” – Gary Morris of the Bright Lights Film Journal.
Source: Vamps: an Illustrated History of the Femme Fatale by Pam Keesey.
The drawing is from Grim Natwick, Betty Boop’s creator and original animator.
