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It's about comics. Old comics.
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Almost all comics presented are from the paleocomicologist's own collections unless otherwise stated.
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Hmmm…you look great in my Superboy costume!
ubu507: Beat Archie
That man is utterly and cosmically vile!
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Octobriana and the Russian Underground by Petr Sadecky, 1971
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octobriana:
According to the 1971 book Octobriana and the Russian Underground by Peter Sadecky, Octobriana was created in the 1960’s by a group of dissident Russian artists calling themselves Progressive Political Pornography (PPP). However it has been suggested that the story given by Sadecky was untrue and that Octobriana was, in fact, his own creation.
Petr Sadecky, while still in Prague, enlisted the help of two Czech artists, Bohumil Konečný and Zdenek Burian, in creating a comic centering around the character of “Amazona.”
Sadecky told the two that he had a buyer interested in the comic, and they worked together on writing and illustrating the Amazona comic. However, Sadecky betrayed his friends by stealing all the artwork and escaping to the West, where, in his efforts to market the Amazona comic, he changed the dialog, drew a red star on the character’s forehead, and was successful only after turning Amazona into a fake political statement, “Octobriana: the spirit of the October Revolution.”
Major inconsistencies in his story, and a frame in his book where Octobriana is referred to as “Amazona” (p. 83), lend credence to this story. In addition, Burian and Konecny sued Sadecky in a West German court, winning the case but never recovering all their stolen artwork.
Since Octobriana is still widely thought to be the product of dissident cells within the U.S.S.R., she is not copyrighted, and has appeared in a variety of artistic incarnations.
No, huh?
retrospace: “I’d like to sharpen my nails on that fat face!”
The Golden Age of Comics
Covered: Challengers of the Unknown 32
Original cover by Bob Brown; DC 1963.
wutheringworlds: Golden Age Violence (via:retrospace)
Barbarella is a fictional heroine in the French science fiction comic book created by Jean-Claude Forest. He created the character for serialisation in the French magazine V-Magazine in spring 1962, and in 1964 Eric Losfeld later published these strips as a stand-alone book, under the title Barbarella. The stand-alone version caused a scandal and became known as the first “adult” comic-book, despite its eroticism being slight and the existence of the Tijuana bibles well before this date. Its traditional editor, however, contrasted with its subject matter, anticipating as it did the sexual revolution.
Barbarella is a young woman who travels from planet to planet and has numerous adventures, often involving sex (the aliens she meets often seduce her, and she also experiments with a “machine excessive” or “orgasmotron”). The original comic book version of Barbarella was probably modeled on Brigitte Bardot, who was once married to the director of the 1968 film, Roger Vadim; Jane Fonda appeared in the film’s title role. For her creator, the character embodied the modern woman in the era of sexual liberation.
Covered: Hurk covers Challengers of the Unknown 32
Original cover by Bob Brown; DC 1963. Hurk’s website is here.
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