Duane Bryers
After his military service, Bryers mainly illustrated calendars on the theme of American frontier. Brown & Bigelow in Saint Paul, Minnesota published these calendars. In 1974 he also illustrated the book The Bunkhouse Boys from the Lazy Daisy Ranch, the text of which was written by his second wife Dee. However, he became famous for his creation Hilda, a fun-loving, chubby pin-up girl, of whom he made about 250 drawings beginning in 1956. Hilda also appeared on Brown & Bigelow calendars. Besides the real pin-up icon Betty Page, Hilda was the most frequently pictured pin-up girl in the 1950s.