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Showing posts with label Jean-Claude Forest. Show all posts
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Monday, January 16, 2023

Barbarella (repost)

Barbarella is a fictional heroine in a French science fiction comic book created by Jean-Claude Forest. Jean-Claude Forest created the character of Barbarella for serialization in the French V Magazine in spring 1962, and in 1964 Eric Losfeld published these strips as a stand-alone book, titled Barbarella.

The book caused a scandal and became known as the first "adult" (pornographic) comic-book, though its eroticism was slight and the American erotic comic-books known as "Tijuana bibles" had long predated it. For her creator, the character embodied the modern, emancipated woman in the era of sexual liberation, and as a result, this literary work has come to be associated with the mid-twentieth-century sexual revolution.


Sunday, December 11, 2022

Eros Gone Wild (repost)

Eros Gone Wild is an adult erotica anthology containing many stories from many different european creators. From acclaimed authors such as Jean-Claude Forest (creator of "Barbarella"), Varenne, Beltran, Caza, Bilal, and many others come unique short stories rich with the inherent freedom of artistic sexual escapades.


Monday, November 21, 2022

Non Album Collections 392

JANO - Gazoline and the Red Planet (1989)

Meet Gazoline, a tough independent anthropomorphic leopard and her flying motorcycle Skooby as they battle for survival in a post apocalyptic Mad Max style world! She has to eat lizards to survive and has to constantly to fight off others who want to have sex with her or rob her! As if that's not enough, a fallen ship brings the GNAPS, small vicious fur balls who begin to eat anything and everything! Cool little 44 pages comic by Jano.

Liberatore - Petites Morts et autres fragments du chaos (2017)

Liberatore books from 2017. 266 pages showcasing the career of Liberatore, with examples of his earliest strips, going through the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s to his most recent ones.

Lost in Time: Labyrinths

Castaways of time translated as "Lost in Time" This is the third album, "Labyrinth". Published by NBM in 1986 as "Lost in Time", with forward by ALex Toth. Funny thing is NBM didn't start with the 1st album. This is 1970s French SCi-Fi so it is dated. Book by Jean-Claude Forest and Paul Gillon.


Thursday, October 20, 2022

Non Album Collections 388

Fraternity (2022)

Wyatt’s roommate has been acting strange ever since he joined that frat. After suffering a tragic loss, Wyatt can't wait for a fresh start away at college. Too bad freshman year isn't all it's cracked up to be, especially when you're a grieving introvert. If it wasn't for his best friend, Jake, Wyatt would never leave his room. But when Jake joins a mysterious fraternity, Wyatt unearths something sinister. Now Wyatt must fight to save his friend or risk losing him to fraternal damnation. Jon Ellis, Hugo Petrus.

You Are There

Written by Jean-Claude Forest and methodically drawn by Jacques Tardi in his weird but strangely appealing not quite art style "You are There" tells the story of the goofy Arthur There(Arthur Même) who lives on the walls of his family's former property and now spends his days walking on the walls separating the properties of his numerous neighbors unlocking their gates so they can pass from one property to another and collecting a small fee for it and arguing with the jerks who take advantage of him anyway they can.

Rifo - Hiroshiman v1 (scantilated Hoyeru)

This Rifo guy obviously is a big fan of the hippy underground artists, such as Crumb and especially Gilbert Shelton. So he studied their comics carefully and went and created Hiroshiman, a totally wild and crazy comic about a guy who got radiated and became a superhero. Dipping into 100 years of genre, he set Hiroshiman against various adversaries, including old fashion monsters, gangsters, dangerous women, mutated maggots, bikers and whatever else he could think of. 


Sunday, October 2, 2022

Non Album Collections 386

Jean-Claude Forest - Hypocrite and the Loch Ness monster

whimsical and playful, Hypocrite debuted as a daily newspaper strip in France Soir newspaper in 1971. It ran from February to December. Hypocrite, a French teenage girl gets hired by a rich old British lady to be the lady's "niece". The old lady's castle just happens to be situated at the shores of Loch ness lake. There Hypocrite meets various entities, including the LochNess monster, a Scottish bagpipes playing ghost, a mute boy gardener, and the evil himself!

Dino Battaglia- "Death and the Gambler"

is one of short stories illustrated by Dino Battaglia, a giant of Italian comic art. It appeared in Corriere dei Piccoli in the late 1960s, and was the first of a series of short-story adaptations Battaglia illustrated. Battagtlia's unique style, with scratchboard textures cloaking his lovingly-detailed world in mist, perfectly complements Prosper Merimee's enjoyable fable set in a world in which the old pagan gods coexist with Catholic Christianity.

T'Zee - An African Tragedy (2022)

T'Zee is dead... or is he? For this corrupt leader of a fictional African country near the Congo, it may be the end. His generals have abandoned him. The palaces he built on the backs of his countrymen are deserted or destroyed. His trophy wife harbors a secret passion for a man her own age, dangerously close to T'Zee's orbit. by Appollo, Brüno.


Thursday, August 13, 2020

Non Album Collections 247

Cat and Cat 01 - Girl Meets Cat (Papercutz 2020)

Life was quiet for Cath and her dad, living alone. But when they adopt a cat named Sushi, things get a bit too exciting! Between turning everything into either a personal scratching post or litter box, and the constant cat and mouse game of "love me/leave me alone," Cath and Dad have a lot to learn! Cath also learns how good it is to have a constant companion, a role Cath's dad is trying to fill on his own. It's a hilarious and heartwarming adventure of daily life of this little girl... with a dad and a cat along for the ride!

You are There

by Jacques Tardi, Jean-Claude Forest. One of the earliest full-length, standalone graphic novels to be published in Europe, and certainly one of the best and most original, Ici Meme was serialized in the adult French comics monthly (A suivre) in the early 1980s and then released in book form. A quarter of a century later, this dark, funny, consistently surprising masterpiece has finally been translated into English.

A. Rodin (NMB 2020)

Rodin, a name, a symbol ... The greatest sculptor of modern art, creator of a series of masterpieces that marked his century: The Thinker, The Kiss, The Door of Hell, The Bourgeois of Calais ... Fascinated by the female body, whose sensuality he seizes as a person, he proclaims that "art is only a sexual pleasure, a derivative of the power to love." This intimate portrait traces his tumultuous existence with the three women of his life: Camille Claudel, Rose Beuret and Claire de Choiseul.