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''Bizarre'' magazine began in late 1945, while Coutts was living in Canada.<ref name="utexas.metapress.com">{{cite web |url=http://utexas.metapress.com/content/r05x577r3n1g7r50/ |title=ArchivedIn copyBizarre Fashion: The Double-Voiced Discourse of John Willie's Fetish Fantasia - Journal of the History of Sexuality - Volume 22, Number 1 / January 2013 - University of Texas Press |website=utexas.metapress.com |access-date=6 June 2022 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140416190731/http://utexas.metapress.com/content/r05x577r3n1g7r50/ |archive-date=16 April 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref> He published the magazine under the pseudonym of "John Willie", a name he kept for the duration of his career. Willie was introduced to the American fetish underground by [[Charles Guyette]] and later worked with [[Irving Klaw]], the infamous [[BDSM]] merchandiser later charged with [[obscenity]], but he is best known for his fetish cartoon character [[Sweet Gwendoline]], which he drew in a style that influenced later artists such as [[Gene Bilbrew]] and [[Eric Stanton]]. Other characters include U69 (censored to U89 in some editions), the raven-haired [[dominatrix]] who ties up Gwendoline and Sir Dystic d'Arcy, the only prominent male character and probably a parody of Willie himself.<ref>Glenn Daniel Wilson, ''Variant sexuality: research and theory'', Taylor & Francis, 1987, {{ISBN|0-7099-3698-2}}, p.15</ref> ''Sweet Gwendoline'' was published as a serial in [[Robert Harrison (publisher)|Robert Harrison]]'s mainstream girlie magazine ''Wink'' from June 1947 to February 1950 and later in several other magazines over the years.