2nd Salita del Cómic de Cáceres

Sorry, it took me so long to finish this post but thanks to the experiments my brother conducts in the kitchen I have had heavy stomach cramps since dinner. It seems my stomach doesn´t react too good to half cooked potatoes.


Yes, I just wanted do do a quick post - 30 minutes, 1 hour tops - but fate had other plans. The reason for this post is another comic convention in Spain that´s taking place - well, it starts tomorrow. Not a big salon but rather a salita the 2nd SALITA DEL COMIC IBEROAMERICANO takes place in Cáceres ( I have no idea where that is ) from the 22nd to the 27th of March 2011.

I have thought about sharing this information with german comic news sites but since my last two reports have been ignored I decided to post it here. Since I´ve never been to this particular comic convention I can´t comment on the quality but judging from articles I´ve read online it seems to be a small but fun con. So if you´re in Spain around that time you might want to check it out.


From next Tuesday, the 22nd and till Sunday 27th of March, you can attend the second edition of the SALITA DEL COMIC in Cáceres, named so with a lot of humor last year by its organisators. Before the inauguration, on Wednesday the movie MARIA Y YO can be seen, and the exhibition VINILOS DE COMIC in the Filmoteca de Extremadura.

On Wednesday the starting shot will be given to the comic week in Cáceres, situated in the Sala Vintage. There will be exhibitions of Dario Adanti, Ed or Lluisot. On Thursday there will be a round table panel titled COMICS AND HORROR in the Sala Belles Artes, and the movie EL GRAN VAZQUEZ can be seen in the Filmoteca de Extremadura.

On Friday there will be another round table ( in the Sala Belles Artes ) which will be most interesting about Chris Ware and his influence. There will also be a screening of NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND and to liven up the night, a concert by Victor Coyote in the Sala Belles Artes. On Saturday another talk about HUMOR AND IBERAMERICAN COMICS, and the presentation of some new comics like NAVIO DE TUERTOS de Fermín Solis, YUPULCA de Miguel Farrona y José Luis Forte, ROLAND de Borja González and the second issue of the fanzine HARTO.


The last day is dedicated entirely to the comic fleamarket starting at high noon at the Sala Belle Artes.

The official poster was done by Fermin Solis and the salita is organized by Extrebeo and Cexeci. For more information - and a short podcast about the announcement of the event on a radioshow - you can follow this link that will lead you to the official blog. And you can read the spanish version of the text above right here

Official announcement :

The II Salita del Cómic Iberoamericano, that wants to spread comics, their reknown and appreciation will be celebrated in Cáceres between the 22nd and 27th of March, organized by the Centro Extremeño de Estudios y Cooperación con Iberoamérica ( Cexeci ) and exTreBeO, Asociación Cultural de Amigos del Cómic de Extremadura.


This event wants to make comics known as a " complete art form at the height of the XXI century " with authors from Spain and Latin America, also inviting all comic artists that exist in Extremadurs, professionals and aficionados alike.

This year we have as invited artist Darío Adanti, argentinian artist and animator especially known for his work on the spanish cult humor magazine EL JUEVES. For this occasion the publishing house Glénat just published a book that collects all his work for the weekly publication titled ALL THAT RADIOACTIVE DANDRUFF.


Also attending will be Ed, illustrator and graphic designer from Argentina from the publishing house Mamut, specialized in comics for the youngest readers, like the Comitte of Extremadura informed in its press release.

Lluïsot is another invited artist, a spanish illustrator who won the Lazarillo de ilustración award last year, together with Enrique Flores, artist and illustrator from Extremadura. The Lazarillo award is the most important award dedicated to children´s illustration. Lluïsot´s pages of CARNE DE PSIQUIATRA for the magazine EL JUEVES " have set the highest bar of surreal humor in this country ".

The three artists will be showing examples of their work in the Sala Belles Artes, on Viena Street 16, in Cáceres, and will hold a conference in the Public Library Antonio Rodríguez Moñino / María Brey on Saturday the 26th of March.


The week will be rounded up with a series about movies and comics in the Filmoteca de Extremadura, various round tables dedicated to comics, presentations of comic publications of authors from Extremadura and the already usual successful ending on Sunday the 27th with the comic flea market.

Well, I hope all who attend will have a great time and thanks to my peeps from Rantifuso for sending me the link about YUPULCA.


Today´s video is AVENGERS - EARTH´S MIGHTIEST HEROES from Marvel. It´s nothing new for american audiences but here in Germany we´re still waiting for it. I don´t know if this was made in anticipation of the upcoming Avengers movie but the series is quite good and they even got the characters of Hulk and Thor right.

Best Thor line : That is a very big head.



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Cinema cult siren Tura Satana dead

This is my first post about a dead cult siren - at least I think - which is typical because I wanted to do a post about Russ Meyer, one of the men who most influenced my life, long ago. I also wanted to put this on the blog because there has been nothing about it on german news.


I know I´m risking it a bit because readers tend to riot if the boob factor is too high on my posts but this is about art - pop culture art and stuff.

Russ Meyer´s most famous movie ( if you never heard of Russ Meyer you still know this movie ) is without a doubt FASTER PUSSYCAT ! KILL ! KILL !

Of course Tura Satana plays the lead : Varla, boss of the three - go - go - dancer gang of rough riding, hard drinking, hard f - wording amazons.

As there is very little nudity but a lot of violence in the movie I could see it when I finally discovered Russ Meyer. And I have to say, Tura´s voluptuous cleavage did quite an impression on me.

She´s one of the iconic cult sirens of the world and as other people are quite more eloquent in this case it may be forgiven that I quote from them. We will miss you, Tura.



Now for those who never heard of the movie, what´s it about ? I think FOR THE DISHWASHER says it best :

Bisexual Go - Go dancing vixens with extremely large ( and real ) breasts who drive really, really fast cars, beat men up, and at times thrill kill. That's pretty much all I can say about Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

Wait!

It's got a catchy theme song.



Lori Williams plays Billie the blonde with the hourglass figure


For more read the full faster pussycat entry

review of die satansweiber von tittfield

FASTER PUSSYCAT ! KILL ! KILL ! ( or DIE SATANSWEIBER VON TITTFIELD how it is called in german ) has inspired tons of movies and some scenes from the movie even appeared in Jean Park´s music video SOUL TWISTER - the only music video which was directed by Russ Meyer. Or so I read online.



Here are two articles about Tura ( more would be too depressing but there are some links further down ) : Tura Satana obituary - Actor best known for her role as a go - go dancer in Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!


The actor Tura Satana, who has died aged 72, lived a life as eventful as the plots of the lurid B-movies that made her a star. Almost 6ft tall and trained in martial arts, she specialised in a kind of tough charisma that has rarely been matched on screen.

She was best known for her role in the Russ Meyer sexploitation movie Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! ( 1965, tagline: " Superwomen ! Belted, buckled and booted ! " ). As Varla, the leather - clad leader of a gang of thrill - seeking go - go dancers, Satana was given an opportunity by Meyer to perform her own stunts and choreograph fight scenes, as well as to adlib dialogue. She responded by channelling a kind of controlled rage, stating in an interview: " I took a lot of my anger that had been stored inside for many years and let it loose. " Made for $45,000, the film became a cult classic, inspiring directors including John Waters and Quentin Tarantino.

Haji plays Rosie the exotic wildcat

Satana was born Tura Yamaguchi in Hokkaido, Japan, where her part - Filipino father acted in silent films and her mother was a circus performer of mixed Native American and Scottish heritage. The family moved to the US in 1942, but Tura and her father were interned for two and half years in the Manzanar relocation centre for Japanese-Americans in California.

The family were eventually reunited and settled in Chicago. At a time when anti-Japanese feeling was still prevalent, the young Tura suffered constant bullying at school. One evening, just before her 10th birthday, she was sent out by her mother to buy bread. On the way home she was raped by a gang of teenagers. The five youths were never prosecuted, although in interviews she claimed that over the course of the next 15 years, she tracked down each of her assailants and exacted an unspecified revenge.


Her father responded to the attack by teaching her the martial arts akido and karate. Tura was soon afterwards sent to reform school as a result of her frequent delinquency. When she was 13, her parents arranged for her to marry a 17 - year - old family friend, John Satana. The marriage lasted nine months, by which time Tura was appearing in Illinois nightclubs as a burlesque dancer and a nude model – her act combined martial - arts displays with the usual tassle - twirling.

Moving to Los Angeles, Satana dated Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra before being spotted performing at the Follies theatre and offered a role in the television series Hawaiian Eye. Her martial arts skills led to bit parts in shows such as The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and she appeared in Billy Wilder's Irma La Douce ( 1963 ) and alongside Dean Martin in Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? ( 1963 ). In the former she played a prostitute and the latter, a stripper.

It took the softcore king Meyer to fully recognise Satana's potential, even if he did not exactly cast her against type. After Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, she appeared in two more films, The Astro-Zombies ( 1968 ) and The Doll Squad ( 1973 ), before she was hospitalised after being shot in the stomach by an ex-boyfriend.



She had abandoned her burlesque career when changes in California licensing laws led many club owners to require dancers to perform topless. Satana gave up acting to become a nurse and, later, a police radio operator. In 1981 she married a former policeman, Endel Jurman. Soon afterwards, she was injured in a serious car accident.


For much of her later life, she worked in hotel security in Reno, Nevada. She was a canny businesswoman, trademarking her image, which appeared as an action figure, a Halloween mask and on T - shirts. She was also a good - natured regular at cult film conventions and, despite having a pacemaker fitted in 2003, seemed as tough as ever. Indeed, in one interview she recounted what had happened when an over - enthusiastic fan hid in her hotel room after a signing: " He went flying across the room and wound up with a broken arm, busted nose and badly twisted leg. The house detective carried him out. "

Jurman died in 2000. Satana is survived by her daughters, Kalani and Jade, and her sisters, Pamela and Kim.

Tura Satana, dancer and actor, born 10 July 1938; died 4 February 2011.

Tura Satana, Cult Actress, Dies by Dave Itzkoff


Tura Satana, the actress whose authoritative presence, exotic looks and buxom frame commanded the attention of viewers of Russ Meyer’s 1965 cult movie “ Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! ”, died on Friday evening in Reno.

The death was announced by her longtime manager, Siouxzan Perry, who said the cause of death was believed to be heart failure. Ms. Perry said Ms. Satana was 72 when she died, though other sources listed her birth year as 1935.

Born Tura Luna Pascual Yamaguchi in Hokkaido, Japan, to a father of Japanese and Filipino descent and a mother who was Cheyenne Indian and Scots - Irish, Ms. Satana spent part of her childhood in the Manzanar internment camp near Independence, Calif., before her family settled in Chicago.


Her Asian background and looks and the fact that she developed early led to frequent harassment and assaults, and she led an itinerant lifestyle, working as an exotic dancer and nude model. She even posed for erotic photographs taken by Harold Lloyd, the former silent comedian, who suggested she pursue an acting career.

Her breakthrough role came in “ Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! ”, a Meyer exploitation film that, in stark opposition to the director’s later works, featured no nudity. In that film, Ms. Satana played Varla, the leader of a gang of go - go dancers who kidnap a couple, murder the boyfriend and force the girlfriend to follow them on further lawless adventures.


Ms. Satana’s portrayal of Varla as a brazenly violent but unapologetically feminine woman who frequently upbraids the men who dare to ogle her — when a gas - station attendant tells her he believes in “ seeing America first, ” Varla replies, “ You won’t find it down there, Columbus ! ” — earned her a cult following that endured long after the drive - in era.



In later decades, the influence of Ms. Satana’s no - nonsense attitude could be seen in pop - cultural artifacts ranging from “ Xena, Warrior Princess ” to Quentin Tarantino’s “ Kill Bill ” movies.

Ms. Satana is survived by two daughters, Kalani and Jade, and two sisters, Pamela and Kim, according to Ms. Perry. Ms. Perry said a memorial service was being planned for around July 10, Ms. Satana’s birthday.



The promised articles :

R.I.P., Tura Satana: 'Faster, Pussycat' actress dies / Tura Satana dies at 72; actress starred in 'Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!'

Cult actress Tura Satana dies at 72 / Tura Satana R.I.P.

Tura Satana orbituary / Actress Tura Satana dies

Russ Meyer Kurvenstar Tura Satana ist tot

Satansweib von Tittfield Tura Satana gestorben

Now let us not forget to celebrate Tura´s life so here is her entry at CINEMA CULT SIRENS which I quoted - something I do whenever I´m not the expert in movie babes :


Still today, Tura Satana's influence can be glimpsed in popular culture, even if the people inspired have no clue as who she really is. An unique figure in American entertainment, I can find no other celebrity that could compare.

Her main contention to glory is of course Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, classic cult-movie directed by Russ Meyer. But why not start at the very beginning ? Fasten your seat belts, though, because this could be a memorable rollercoaster ride.

Tura Yamaguchi was born in July 10, 1935 ( or is it 1938 ? ). Sometimes after the end of WWII, after moving to Chicago, she was raped by five thugs. This prompted her to learn martial arts, mainly karate. She soon became main honcho of a gang of teenage girls. Tura admits to having been a rebellious juvenile delinquent, as many teased her about her oriental heritage ( the war was still fresh in many memories ). In fact, the father was from Japan and the Philippines and the mother was American Indian and Scots-Irish. She kicked everyone's ass in reform school ( but also learned how to knit ! ). At 13 years of age, she got married ( a fixed union by the two families involved ) with a guy of 17! This relationship would of course not work out.


Tura became soon after an exotic dancer in Los Angeles. The single thought of enjoying the sight of a very young and big-breasted Oriental hoochie-cooching on stage seemed to dissipate the patriotic elan of many American males: she turned out to be a real success. In that time, dancers traveled from city to city, to propose a more elaborate production than the ones seen in these more sordid times ( no lap dances or Champagne Room nonsense ). It's a complete tragedy that no existing film footage of Tura performing her craft with real passion exists. Here are some famous names that Tura worked with in those years: Rose Le Rose, Maxine Martin The Skyscraper Girl, Tempest Storm, Candy Barr and Stunning Smith the Purple Lady. Hummmm..........

At 19, Tura became pregnant, but she would still dance for the upcoming eight months! In general, a typical week of work earned her around $15,000. She still thinks that this experience was the best school she could ever learn in, even if she sometimes found guys hiding in closets in her hotel rooms. Fearless, she disposed of them in her own personal fashion. Of course, like many starlets of the era, Tura began a relationship with Elvis, for a few months, as the King lived his life to the fullest. Oddly, his future spouse, Priscilla Presley would begin later to display a Tura look ( hair, makeup, etc. ) !


We now arrive at the start of the sixties; this is when Tura finally exposed her fabulous figure on film. There were some television appearances on Hawaiian Eye, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., The Girl From U.N.C.L.E., The Greatest Show On Earth with Jack Palance, Valentine's Day, Burke's Law, etc. For the movies, she played a dancer ( what else? ) in Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? ( 1963 ) with Dean Martin and Elizabeth Montgomery. The same year, she could be seen as a Paris prostitute in the musical Irma La Douce with Jack Lemmon and Shirley Maclaine. 

She came back in 1965 as a dancer in Our Man Flint, a riotous James Bond spoof starring James Coburn.

It's very soon after that the role of a lifetime came her way: Varla in Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Seeing this as an opportunity to play a real character instead of being mere decoration she accepted the challenge. 

Results: an aggressive female character ( for the time ), very sexual in a different way, enjoying some very quotable dialogue. Let's note that Tura executed all her stunts and fights herself. With great relish. The movie's success was not instant: a cult would form in the years to come from word of mouth. There even was a rock band in the nineties named Tura Satana. Some lines from Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! were heard in White Zombie tunes. Even the Cramps were inspired by the movie ( and particularly by Tura ).

Astro - Zombies in 1969 was her first horror film. Sadly, it's pretty shoddy. Director Ted V. Mikels ( who still lives to this day in a castle with ten women ! ) saw Tura on stage and enjoyed the fact that she beat up a female patron who just threw her an ashtray by jealousy. So she played a spy named Satana, sharing the screen with veteran John Carradine, who took a shine to her during shooting. But the film remains juvenile and disappointing ( but can be enjoyed for a few laughs ), even with super - sexy Tura wearing a slit skirt and smoking languidly.

Her last film for a while was from the same Mikels, The Doll Squad ( 1973 ), famous for supposedly inspiring the creation of TV sensation Charlie's Angels.



The Doll Squad, in fact, presents the right - doers of a group of female adventurers battling it out with a megalomanical intend of ruling the world ( and why not ? ). Soon after this shoot, tragedy struck as Tura was shot down by a former possessive lover with a gun. Needless to say, there was a forced period of convalescence. Tura became employed in an hospital, then found work as a dispatcher for the LAPD!


In 1981, she broke her back in a car crash, which resulted in two years in and out of hospitals and many operations. She was married to a retired L.A. cop and has two daughters. She has her own website and fan club. In 2002, Tura made a comeback to movies in Mark of the Astro - Zombies, alongside Brinke Stevens, Liz Renay and John Carradine's disembodied head ( ? ).

Her humor and honesty in interviews are pure delight. If only she could have shot more films. If many still think of Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! as a Ed Wood kind of filmaking ( which it isn't ), how can we not admit that it was ahead of its time, still today ? Can you find me a similar production with three female characters with so much presence? I can only think of The Heroic Trio, but still at another end of the spectrum.


In my brain, there are many classic cinematic images : Greta Garbo's closeup in Queen Christina, Charlton Heston parting the Red Sea in The Ten Commandments, King Kong at the top of the Empire State Building, Toshiro Mifune in any scene in Seven Samurai... and Tura Satana in Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! whupping the butt of that stupid guy in bermudas. I demand her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Now.

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Gratis Comic Tag 2011 and other stuff

Initially I just wanted to do a quick post to announce the upcoming GRATIS COMIC TAG in 2011 but as usual it has become longer due to some other news I didn´t get to post because of the flu. But I´ve kept the GRATIS COMIC TAG at the top. Sorry, once again.


FREE AS A BIRD - GRATIS COMIC TAG 2011

It seems despite all the scepticism before the first ever GERMAN FREE COMICBOOK DAY that the event was a big success. I have read a few articles on the subject and a lot of dealers were surprised how much comics they sold by giving away free comics.


Well, maybe those americans DO know a thing or two about selling comics with their FREE COMIC BOOK DAY. Since I haven´t seen any online announcements yet, I want to remind readers that the 2nd GRATIS COMIC TAG is taking place on the 14th of May, 2011. Another sign that the first GRATIS COMIC TAG was successfull is the fact that the numbers have increased from 17 publishers offering 30 free comic books to 28 publishers offering 44 ( ! ) different free comic books.

Last year there were the usual problems for regular customers - some shops took no reservations - while a few of the dealers had a problem with the whole concept of " free comics ". My advice : ask your local comicshop how they are going to handle it in advance and don´t get mad if you don´t get all your favorites. The event is designed to get you to read new stuff anyway.


I don´t know if there are still a lot of last year´s free comics around, but I know that they probably still have a few left at my regular comicshop. If you remember I gave some of them away for the big christmas contest so no, I´m not hording them.

official gratis comic tag website

checklist of the 44 comics

list of participating comicshops

feedback from last year

Another novelty from last year is the KIDS LOGO which doesn´t mean that there´s a kids motto at this year´s GRATIS COMIC TAG. But it seems last year there was a bit of confusion about which comics were suitable for children ( not HORST or HORRORSCHOCKER ) so this should make it easier. And now dealers can be sure when handing out copies of POLLY AND THE PIRATES, one of the highlights of this year´s happening.


To the list of this year´s most wanted freebies I would also add THE MUPPET SHOW, THE GOON, PERRY UNSER MANN IM ALL, TALES FROM THE VAULT OF THE GRINGO, DIE TOTEN SPECIAL, DER TOD UND DAS MÄDCHEN and WEISSBLECH´S GRATIS GRUSELSTUNDE. After last year´s excellent HORRORSCHOCKER comic they are now also presenting stories from WELTEN DES SCHRECKENS, their newest anthology title.


So contact your local comic dealer about which events they have planned ( I heard there were quite a number of signings tied to the GRATIS COMIC TAG 2010 ) or pick a shop from the list and have fun ! If this keeps on being such a great day for comicshops it may even become an institution.

By the way, if you´re wondering why there hasn´t been any report about the last FREE COMIC BOOK DAY on this blog : so far I only got 4 comics of the ones I ordered. I´m not complaining, but that´s really meager to do a qualified overview. Maybe this year my chances are better as I have put more possible candidates on the list.


COMICBOOK REPORT

Women and comics are a constant topic on this blog and here are a few more links about this " strange idea " I have - according to some people - that women don´t find access to comics as easy as men. And that they might read comics for different reasons. In HOW I BECAME A COMIC BOOK CONSUMER the talented Faith Erin Hicks tells about her own troubled road to comics while Jill Thompson has started phase II of her LADIES COMIC PROJECT.

Which would have been really news if I had gotten to post it when I first got the link. As it is the series - in which women who usually don´t read comics pick a graphic novel and later share thier thoughts about it - is already in it´s fourth installment. As it´s really interesting reading material here are the links : 1 / 2 / 3 / 4


In THE VALUE OF ONE Carla Hoffmann writes about FANTASTIC FOUR 587, the now - famous DEATH issue in which one of Marvel´s firast family kicks the bucket that comes polybagged. I haven´t read it yet so I can´t say if it´s a good issue or not. I DO know who is the FF´s newest ex - member thanks to Marvel itself spoiling the hell out of it. Although if you read my last post on the subject - especially the Suzanne Vega quote " if heroes go down they go down in flames " - you might have thought I already knew who was going to die.

Well, as usual I´ll wait with my verdict till I have the actual issue....although the way the issue keeps selling out it also might be....if I can get my hands on it.

DOUBLE DRAGON

One of the best - written, best - drawn superhero comics out there that still fails to get the recognition it deserves is Erik Larsen´s SAVAGE DRAGON. This title is more shocking, has more gore and more unexpected plot twists than any other comic on the racks today. Really, I can´t understand why it doesn´t sell better. At 3.50 it´s still cheaper than most Marvel comics and offers more entertainment.

You might think that there would be thousand of comic fans clamoring for a title that doesn´t have constant crossover or big meaningless events that never change a thing. This is a title which 170th issue is written, drawn and inked by the same man that did issue 1. And he did all the issues in - between.


Now people tell me that reading SAVAGE DRAGON can be complicated but I have to say it´s not as complicated as most mainstream superhero comics that are read by thousands. If somebody asks me, the only difficult thing concerning SAVAGE DRAGON is that it´s difficult......to read something else after it. I really tried but after the edge - of - your - seat - action of it things like BATMAN ODYSSEY, USAGI YOJIMBO or even JOHN BYRNE´S NEXT MEN seem rather dull and uninspired.

Because really, nothing else comes close to the excellence that is SAVAGE DRAGON. The last storyline began with Dragon coming back to the police force, going up against an evil duplicate from a prallel world ( come to think of it Dragon´s living on a parallel world himself since his world got destroyed ), getting half his brain eaten by an imperfect duplicate and being presumed dead.


Which happens a lot since he got better self - healing powers than Wolverine. But what began like business as usual turned into Erik´s best storyline so far ( which is saying a lot with the brilliant stories he has come up so far ) with more blood, more non - stop action, more Dragon duplicates you can shake a stick at ( stolen identity times 100 ! ) and the return of the most unexpected villain of all. This is Erik´s big opus in which he answers questions that came up 17 years ago ( longtime readers will remember the pages ) that ends.....well, that would be telling.

Let me just say that the end of last issue surpassed all expectations and now the question is not only " What comes next ? " but also " Is there a NEXT ? "


Here´s a review of issue 169 aptly named AFTERMATH and you shouldn´t read it if you don´t want any spoilers on one of 2011 best stories.

MORE COMIC STUFF

We´re still not finished : MULTIVERSITY COMICS has an interview with Image Comics' Publisher Eric Stephenson about Image's success from 2010, where it´s headed in 2011, and the overall health of the medium. The WALL STREET JOURNAL has an interesting article about Mr. Taschen the founder of the famous TASCHEN BOOKS ( you may remember their newest Superman book that in itself could be declared a deadly weapon - from the weigth alone. Chris Arrant over at ROBOT 6 ponders the question ARE TEASERS BIG PLEASERS IN COMIC MARKETING ?


Mtv has an interview with J. Michael Straczynski at GEEK NEWS where he talks about EVERYTHING and waay to late for BLACK HISTORY MONTH here is the comicbook that changed a nation.


Not as significant but ARCHIE is in the headlines again, this time with Kevin Keller , their newest character who happens to be gay. Can´t wait till the Archie collections are available from amazon.


READING TIP : WORMWORLD SAGA

I know, after all the articles about comics, do you really need one more reading tip from me ?

The answer is yes, if it´s the brilliant WORMWORLD SAGA - and you don´t already know it. WORMWORLD SAGA is a german webcomic ( don´t worry, there´s an english version available ) that tells a fantasy saga in lavishly illustrated, painted pictures. Now the really innovative part here is that the story is not cut up into various pages but it´s one giant page that reads from top to bottom.


And you as the reader decide where to stop on your screen and when you read it. A really brilliant idea. So far there is an english version, a spanish version, a french version, a portugese version, a russian version and even a turkish version available through the main page. Right now the creator of the comic, Daniel Lieske is trying to get WORMWORLD SAGA apped - if that´s the right word. So if you like the comic feel free to donate something.

As a lot of the links are a bit old here´s something old that MIGHT be new to a few of my german readers : the 1960 classic Superman cartoon THE FORCE PHANTOM.



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