Gene Bilbrew

[1]: 13–26  [4] Pérez Seves debunked the myth that Bilbrew illustrated or produced the comic strip series named The Bronze Bomber for the African-American newspaper, Los Angeles Sentinel.

One printed page, showing the Bomber cartoon from March 8, 1943, was repurposed by artist Mildred Howard as the base layer of her collage Millenials & XYZ #IV (2014), which is in the permanent collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation.

According to Pérez Seves, later that year, at age 19, Bilbrew would evade the draft due to psychiatric reasons[1]: 8  and become a founding member of his first vocal group, The Mellow Tones.

His first professional art job was for the hugely influential comics artist Will Eisner on The Spirit,[8] where Bilbrew took over the back-up series Clifford—a humor page for small children—after its originator Jules Feiffer was drafted into the army.

[10][1]: 31–32  [11] From then on, Bilbrew focused on fetish art, producing work for notable underground publishers Irving Klaw, Edward Mishkin, Stanley Malkin, and the Sturman brothers.

The Bronze Bomber challenges a coroner's jury on the facts behind the lynching of two Black men.
A forced feminization drawing from Women Bind and Dominate Male Maid by Bilbrew