{"id":3409,"date":"2008-08-06T16:34:40","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T16:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/08\/06\/rick-klaw-talks-about-irving-klaw-2\/"},"modified":"2008-08-06T16:34:40","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T16:34:40","slug":"rick-klaw-talks-about-irving-klaw-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/08\/06\/rick-klaw-talks-about-irving-klaw-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Klaw Talks about Irving Klaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interview with me about my famous <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Irving_Klaw\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">grandfather<\/a> appears on the <a href=\"http:\/\/bettiepageblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/rick-klaw-talks-about-irving-klaw.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">BettiePage.com blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<table width=\"90%\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"genmed\"><b>Quote:<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"quote\">How has your own life, work and passions been shaped by experiencing the &ldquo;cult&rdquo; audience of Bettie Page?<\/p>\n<p>The cult of Bettie enabled me to learn more about a part of my family history that I thought lost. I didn\u2019t learn about my grandfather\u2019s famous history until I was 21 and at the 1992 San Diego ComicCon. I remember the event clearly.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Are you related to Irving Klaw?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>I stood dumbfounded. I knew the name but never expected to hear it at 21 while attending a comic book convention. Irving Klaw was my grandfather.<\/p>\n<p>Irving died about 16 months before I was born. His death is the stuff of family legend.<\/p>\n<p>The grey-haired man in front of me was Ray Zone. As a comic book and magazine publisher, Zone was single-handedly responsible for the 3-d boom of the late 80\u2019s.1<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He was my grandfather. Why?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Zone proceeded to show me examples of my grandfather\u2019s work: Images of Bettie in black leather and leopard print bathing suits bound in a variety of positions. Some of the pics had Bettie with a whip. In some she was spread in doorways or suspended from a ceiling, bound and gagged. A few even had other women, but none had any nudity at all.<\/p>\n<p>So you could say the &ldquo;cult of Bettie&rdquo; changed my life but not in the way most expect. I became curious and over the years and learned as much as I could abut his life and work. It\u2019s enabled me to re-establish a relationship with my Uncle Arth. Turns out we have a lot more in common than Irving.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/klutzrick\/RzSMMVNgYtI\/AAAAAAAAAE8\/6ItkRzDrU0Y\/s288\/bpirving.jpeg\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"tumblr-crosspostr-linkback\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/08\/06\/rick-klaw-talks-about-irving-klaw\/\" title=\"Go to the original post.\" rel=\"bookmark\" target=\"_blank\">Rick Klaw Talks about Irving Klaw<\/a> was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\" target=\"_blank\">The Geek Curmudgeon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interview with me about my famous grandfather appears on the BettiePage.com blog. Quote: How has your own life, work and passions been shaped by experiencing the &ldquo;cult&rdquo; audience of Bettie Page? 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