Bill Ward

London born and bred, Bill Ward was an active member of the city's leather community and belonged to the M.S.C. London Leather and Denim Club. Bill died in July 1996.

His work frequently appeared in numerous leather-oriented magazines, including Drummer and Manifest Reader. Leathermen, uniforms, bars, backrooms and sex figured prominantly in his art.

He is perhaps best known for his Drum stories, like the one included here.

Finding anything about the man or his images on the web has been challenging, and what images are out there are spotty at best. To further muddy the issue, there's another British artists named Bill Ward who produced straight bondage porn. There is also a drummer in Black Sabbath named Bill Ward, so combining his name with 'drummer' or 'drum' on Google doesn't deliver the hits we're looking for. The best advice I can give is to look for his work in old issues of Drummer, and on sites like this that post some of his images.

All the images on this page originally appeared in the late great Drummer magazine.

Sarge D