Cavegirls & Jungle Girls

I seem to turn out a lot of drawings of girls dressed in cavegirl/jungle girl costumes. The drawing at right is from 1994, and is one of my earliest efforts at digital art. Somewhere around here are some pen and ink drawings even older than these that illustrate the 'fighting cavegirl' theme.

I probably did my first fur bikini fight art in college, which would have been – well, some time back.

I remember seeing some movie with fighting cavegirls back in my adolescence that caught my attention, and probably influenced my later art. It wasn't the legendary Racquel/Martine battle, now the gold standard for the subgenre; it was some movie preceding even that.

Possibly it was "Prehistoric Women" from 1950. This dates back to a time when public standards wouldn't allow cavegirls to fight in bikinis; they were required to go at it in more modest attire. But even with the Wilma Flintstone dresses and the Toni perms, there was a certain aura of untamed wildness about this prehistoric fight. It was pretty hot for its time. In fact, it was about the only thing there was.

In terms of cavegirl catfight art, I guess the benchmark is still the battle between Nima and Embra for the right to marry Anthro, a young caveman who would later go on to develop a popular line of ergonomic workstations and office seating.

Anthro was another of those mainstream publications that, like Sports Review Wrestling, sort of jumped off the convenience store rack and into my sweaty adolescent hands. Later in life, I would rummage through back issue boxes at the comic stores trying to find additional copies. ('Hmmm... Angel Love... Animal Man... Animaniacs... Aquaman. Fuck!')

I also like a four-page booklet by Cire called Azza vs. Laka, produced in 1979. Azza and Laka are two jungle girls who decide Africa isn't big enough for both of them.

I notice a recurring theme in these jungle girl/cavegirl fights: somebody's always biting, but usually biting in not very interesting places. I may have to draw something to address this shortcoming in the genre.

Let me also add a plug here for a valuable paleontological resource: the Cavegirls in Fur Bikinis blog.

And thanks to every model to ever posed in a fur bikini, whether you were fighting another cavegirl or not.