After the war, Willie, who in the meantime had moved to the United States, founded and sent the magazine Bizzarre alone, which at the time was considered an intolerable scandal for the community. These editions, of little artistic content from the literary point of view, were richly illustrated with whimsical garments and bizarre gimmicks designed to inflict bodily and psychological tortures on the unfortunate protagonists, fallen into the hands of their fanatic tormentors.
In 1937, while he was in Sydney, he discovered the books illustrated by the French Charles (one of the European forerunners of the kind much loved by Willie) who worked in the Paris of the ’30s. He lived for long periods in a sort of exile in Australia, where he met Holly, the model who became his wife. John Willie (born John Alexander Scott Coutts), born in Singapore in 1902, was the rebel scion of a family of bankers. JOHN WILLIE and the adventures of the sweet Gwendoline
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