Giovanna Casotto - Playful and Carefree

Giovanna Casotto is next to Ilona Staller(Cicciolina) one of Italy's most popular TV actrices, but she also is an comic art artist, already author of « Expériences Interdites », « Les Désirs de Vénus», «Mauvaises Habitudes » and « Chambre 179 »; is one of the most published artists of the collection «Selen presents ».

She's the first femal erotic Italian illustrator, she's not only an illustrator, but she draws herself in all the "Selen-covers" in the most explicit erotic scenes , she's also an actrice who acts in those stories. Because of her fantastic realistic drawings( of herself and her best friends), the artwork of Miss. Giovanna Casotto is one of the most beautiful you will find in that catagory. The quality of her autoportaits are so beautiful and fantastic realistic that everyone who likes the comic art must see or have this.


Giovanna Casotto got hooked on erotic comics in 1994, after meeting feet-fetish artist Franco Saudelli. With Saudelli she learns to draw and they start collaborating on several stories they write together, Franco pencils and Giovanna inks and models for.

After a short stint on adventure comics for L'Intrepido, Italian publisher Trentini signs her up for his new publication Selen.
Her artwork in Selen leads to major sales in Italy, reprints all over Europe and publication of her stories in the United States in the Bitch In Heat series (Eros Comix). She also becomes a requested guest in many Italian TV shows, and her appearances at comic-cons in Italy and abroad draw huge crowds.

A Memorial to Art Wetherell

I'm handing over Father's Day(column on comicsworld website) to my old friend Tim Perkins this month, so that he might share some memories of British comic book artist Art Wetherell. Back in the dim and distant days when I was an editor at Marvel UK, Art sent me samples of his work and I hired him to pencil strips for THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS, DEATH'S HEAD and DOCTOR WHO. He was talented, always cheerful and willing to learn (and teach) and never missed a deadline. When I left Marvel UK for the states he sent me a wonderful illustration with the legend "Starkings Quits, Will Things Fall Apart?" I remember how happy I was to see his work in JABBA THE HUTT a few years ago but had not spoken to him in fifteen years when I learned he had passed away suddenly before this past New Year's. It came as quite a shock, as I always imagined that I would run into him at a convention one day and we would catch up with one another. Art was about my age, still working hard and, of course, he was a father too...

— Richard Starkings

 Thanks once again Richard for affording me the opportunity to say a few words about British Comic Artist, Art Wetherell, who sadly passed away on Christmas day last year.

I first heard of Art back in the early-mid-eighties back on Martin Lock's Harrier Comics. At the time most of the Harrier Gang (creatives such as Kev Hopgood, Steve Yeowell, Jeff Anderson, Mike Collins, Mark Farmer, James Hill, Art Wetherell and myself) little suspected that we would soon become a big part of Marvel UK's next big push into publishing its own titles. This, following the success of Alan Davis' lovely work on Captain Britain and John Ridgway's classical renderings of Doctor Who, the guys that paved the way for us to enter mainstream comics. 

Frank Frazetta: Dream Master

Klik here to read his biography 

 Frank Millers reaction seeing Frazetta's art in real life

 

Eros Graphic Album no. 3 Anton's Collected Drek featuring Wendy Whitebread

Donald E. Simpson is an American comic book cartoonist and freelance illustrator, most noted as the creator of the series Megaton Man, Border Worlds, and Bizarre Heroes, as well as the official comic book adaption of King Kong. He also freelanced for nearly every major comic book publisher. His most widely seen work are the illustrations he created for Al Franken's 2004 bestseller, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.

Between 1990 and 1992, Simpson created six erotic underground comix under the pseudonym "Anton Drek," including Wendy Whitebread, Undercover Slut and Forbidden Frankenstein:

In 1993, Eros Comix began to collect their “greatest hits” into a series of trade paperbacks under the moniker of “Eros Graphic Albums.” Each volume generally collects an entire original mini-series under a single cover.

In this edition:
Wendy Whitebread #1-2, Forbidden Frankenstein #1-2, Dracula's Daughter #1, and Anton's Drekbook #1. And extra artwork and cartoons. The exact content is described here: comics.org

The [Fetish] Art of Michael Manning

As an artist, his comics are often discribed as being reminiscent of classical Japanese wood block prints. The plots are thin, but that never bothered since the point is really to enjoy the erotic art. And when it comes to art, Manning delivers. His black and white figures are drawn with simple, clean, fluid lines. The fetish elements are imaginative, sexy and even beautiful. If you think you could enjoy a potent mixture of sci-fi, bondage and harcore comics, you really can't go wrong with "Tranceptor: The Way Station". Followed by "Tranceptor: Book Two: Iron Gauge, Part One". Unfortunately, as the title suggests, this is only the first part of a second book. Consequently, even though the art is up to the same standard set in the first comic, the story feels distinctly unfinished. Which is too bad since "The Way Station" hinted at a very interesting and byzantine world beyond it's desert setting. But you don't see any more of it in the follow-up. "Part One of Iron Guage" captures the main characters in a story-line lull as they recuperate from the action that took place in "The Way Station". Fans of the first book will still find it hard to resist this purchase, but people should beware. The sexuality is defintely kinky and not for the easily offended.

Black Leather Corset of Dune by Noah Berlatsky:

Porn is the genre fiction that dare not speak its name. When you think of genre, you tend to think of sci-fi, detective, horror, western, romance, or the like. Porn doesn’t make the list — instead, its set off in a box by itself, for special censure or (less often) praise. Yet, when you look closely, porn doesn’t really seem all that anomalous. Like other genre art, it’s broadly popular, has its own predictable tropes, and appeals primarily (though not exclusively) to one gender. Porn isn’t an absolute evil ruining our children, nor is it a liberating force releasing the power of our repressed sexuality. It’s just another marketing niche.

The Art of Cornnell Clarke

Browsing the internet in search for some background material I often find these little gems. Ordinary people I assume, who give their opinion on books they read and are often more entertaining then the regular reviews. Below are some of those on one of my favorite artists and his creations.

Catholic high school senior Molly runs  into a wild classmate that gets her into the hottest situations.
Nothing like spreading peanut butter on the right spots, doing it in the school bathroom, getting instructed in oral for the very first time, even getting the strict head nun at their school to lift her robe for an all-out anal blasting orgy for graduation!

Now she must confess to her sins and face how she loves being taken vigorously, even if she has become pregnant! A shockingly arousing side-story to this best-selling series.

Molly Fredrickson is a concoction of humankind's most deliciously sinful desires. With her Catholic schoolgirl outfit, cute family pet, girlish hairstyles, gentle looking suburban neighborhood and freckles like chocolate sprinkles, Molly presents an image of innocent naivety--but across these pages this raw sexual creature is anybody but.

Molly is a nymph of the highest caliber, libido and id off their leashes, a young woman who thrives on pure, sweet pleasure whenever she finds it...or whenever it finds her first. And in her carnal universe she never has to look very far, for as Molly quickly discovers her entire neighborhood is a landscape of orgy-filled insanity. In this dimension EVERYBODY'S horny and ready to go. Anywhere Molly wanders, sex in some form is bound to happen. She's not so much the kind of girl you'd bring home to meet mom as the kind mom would later jump on in the dark.

Even Comics has his political refugee: Francisco Solano López, 1928 – 2011

He may be best known in the U.S. for the many (stunningly drawn) X-rated comics he created for international consumption late in his 50-year career, most particularly the long-running Young Witches, but Argentina’s Francisco Solano López was a titan of South American comics, on a level with the great Alberto Breccia, the temporary honorary Argentinean (during the 1950s) Hugo Pratt, and the hugely influential writer Hector Oesterheld (who collaborated with all three).

Solano López was a workhorse comfortable in any genre, whose muscular, realistic artwork was instantly recognizable by the detailed textures created by clusters of short pen lines that gave it a noticeable resemblance to John Severin’s; his signature work in his native country was the ongoing science fiction series El Eternauta (created by his friend and collaborator Oesterheld), to which he returned periodically throughout his career.

El Eternauta told the story of an alien invasion of Buenos Aires from the point of view of a group of survivors. Its enduring image of men in suits traveling through a poisonous, weaponized snowfall was a sign of the still-young Solano López's growing strength as an image maker. In addition to the thrilling nature of the story and the chops put on display by the writer and artist, El Eternauta trafficked in an obviously rich series of potential and realized metaphors: the invasion of Buenos Aires by an outside force, the monsters and creatures the resistance fighters encountered, the ultimate enemy controlling these things from afar.

Into the World of Sky Doll - Barbucci & Canepa

Created by the Italian team of Barbara Canepa and Alessandro Barbucci in 1997, Sky Doll is a timely socio-political thriller in which a young android must decide her destiny by challenging the very government—and faith—that has controlled her life. Canepa and Barbucci, the team behind the international bestselling series W.I.T.C.H. and Monster Allergy, have seen Sky Doll translated into French, Italian, German and Spanish.

To date, Soleil has published three volumes in Europe, namely Volume 1: The Yellow City, Volume 2: Aqua and Volume 3: The White City, with a fourth one entitled Sudra currently in development. There was also Volume 0: Doll’s Factory, which was a “making of” sketchbook published by Carlsen Comics.

In January, Marvel Comics and French publisher Soleil announced a joint publishing venture that will see Sky Doll and some of Europe’s most popular comics originally produced by Soleil such as Denis Bajam’s Universal War One, Jean-Francois Di Giorgio and Frédéric Genêt’s Samurai and Valérie Mangin and Aleksa Gajic’s Le Fleau Des Dieux, now re-titled Scourge Of The Gods, published in new editions in English for the first time. For the record, Heavy Metal first translated and presented an English edition of Sky Doll in the Heavy Metal Magazine Summer 2006 – Sky Doll Special. Heavy Metal has also translated and partially reprinted Le Fleau Des Dieux as well as other Soleil titles.

The Marvel version of the hit series debuted in May and it was an instant sell out. With the release of the third issue this week, we spoke with the creators about the creation of Sky Doll, their influences, bringing Sky Doll to North American and English-speaking readers and upcoming volumes.

Vamperotica - Luxura - Kirk Lindo

In 1994 the world of comics was forever changed when Kirk Lindo created and published VAMPEROTICA #1. (First ever appearance of The Vampress Luxura) The What started off as a hard to find indie anthology turned into one of the hottest comics in the industry. The hotness of the comic was embodied in the drop dead gorgeous vampire who appeared on the covers and in the stories. She is The Vampress Luxura. Her unique hair, voluptuous curves and insatiable lust for the blood of men and women captivated readers right from the very first issue. The original Vamperotica series ran for 50 issues and spun off into several even more successful projects including a magazine, trading cards, statues, movies, musical CD and more.

The pages of the Vamperotica comics contain art & stories by some of the top names in the comic business including Georges Jenty, Jim Balent, Buzz, Everette Hartsoe, Jimmy Palmiotti, Kevin Taylor, Mitch Byrd, David Mack, Mike Oeming, Fauve (Holly Golightly), Mshindo I, Billy Dallas Patton, Don Kramer, Leonard Kirk, David Quinn, Mike Deodato, Ed Benes, Al Rio, Mike Wolfer and many more.

The Vamperotica magazines, comics and movies have also featured some of the world most beautiful models and actresses including Julie Strain, Glori-Anne Gilbert, Lovette, Leslie Culton, Exotica, Mercedez, Stormy Daniels, Tina Krause, Countess Vladimira, Angel Eyes, Brittany Love, Erin Ellington, April Hunter, Eileen Daly, Julie Smith, Tammy Parks, Debbie Rochon and many more.

Vamperotica #1 went into 3 printings of the original version. The very first Vampress Luxura story "Deadly Desire" has another 6+ printings as inclusions in other special editions. The first Luxura story has over 50,000 copies in publication in it's various versions.

 

This is without a doubt the most important image in my artistic/comic career. It is the very first finished and published image of The Vampress Luxura. At the time, I had no idea the impact this would have on my future. This comic has a first, second and third printing in it's original form and continues to be a top seller in Digital form.

I completed this image before I did the interior art for this issue. I kept the art in front of me so that I could make sure that the art on the inside of the comic matched the quality of the art on the cover.

There is a pure line art version of this cover as well as the hand colored version.

If you look carefully you will see that I had not yet started drawing the extreme "cobra" look to Luxura's mane of hair. It was a few issues later that I developed and got more comfortable with the signature look to Luxura's hair that is more well know today. The original art for this is in the hands of a devoted collector who has held on to the image for over 15 years. It is next to impossible to find any of the original Vamperotica covers drawn by me for sale on the open market. I take it as a sincere compliment to the quality of the work that collectors are reluctant to part with the original Luxura/Vamperotica covers that I have done.

Luis Royo

Luis Royo was born in Spain in 1954 and began his life as an artist from an early age.

As a young teenager he had already learned technical art and by the age of 16, he was devoting his studies to painting and interior design and was working on commissions from various design studios.
Upon discovering the art of Enki Bilal and Moebius in adult comics, Royo followed in their footsteps.Four years after the first gallery exhibition of his fantasy art in Paris, the artist was working for Heavy Metal Magazine and being commissioned to paint cover art for many publishers including Tor and Avon.

Royo's acclaim has continued to grow, and his work is found on posters, on tarot cards and in books devoted to his main passions: women and fantasy.

Luis Royo now lives in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona, Spain where he has returned to painting on
canvas, creating visions of an ever more personal nature.

Review by Arleigh on 11th of january 2011 on unobtainium13.com

Art is a word that has a broad meaning. It could mean art in the sense of how some people perceive music and films. Some people have begun to look at video games and similar entertainment media as art. I will always look at art, first and foremost, the realm of painters and those who create images on canvas and other similar materials. I also consider such individuals as purveyors of their own brand of entertainment. While some may not find entertainment when looking upon the works of masters in a gallery for others it’s the highest form.

To start of a feature that will profile artists who have contributed to the furthering of their craft I choose one of my favorite artists of any field today. The first artists chosen is Spanish fantasist Luis Royo whose work has spanned several decades. His distinctive style of blending the sensual and erotic female form with very dark and apocalyptics settings and background has made Luis Royo one of the preeminent artist in the scifi and fantasy literary world. Royo has done covers for genre literature and has even branched out to creating covers for heavy metal bands and video game titles.

Luis Royo’s particular style was first limited to sketches whose images then unveils fully once he has put brush (both traditional and mechanical air) to the canvas. Such pieces have become quite sought after by collectors. While he’s not averse to having his pieces sold to private buyers it’s usually a rare thing for him to sell from his own collection. Most of his artistic pieces owned by private art collectors have been those sold by owners who had contracted Royo to do the piece for them.

In the 1990’s he began to create pieces both in sketch and finished form and collected them into artbooks. These books usually had their artwork fall under a specific theme Royo had in mind to tie everything together. Such collected artbook like Malefic, Prohibited, Tattoos and Subversive Beauty have become fan favorites and one doesn’t have to look too hard to find them in bookstores and comic book collectible shops.

In the last couple of years, he has begun to branch out to creating his artistic pieces using other mediums. He has begun to bring his own paintings to three-dimensional life through sculpture which he saw as just a logical step in his evolution as an artist. Maybe he’ll begin to learn how to adapt his subversive beauties beyond canvas and sculpture and into the world of CGI. From this artistic genius I wouldn’t put it past him not to make that next step into the digital realm.

Melody - Sylvie Rancourt

THE NUNS NEVER TAUGHT ME HOW TO DANCE ON A STOOL!" Interview with Montreal cartoonist Jacques Boivin & cartoonist/sex worker/creator of Melody comix, Sylvie Rancourt by Mia Dee. (Before, I used to say look but don't touch ...now I say touch but don't look!" excerpt, © 2000, Sylvie Rancourt)

In 1985 Sylvie Rancourt created an alter-ego for herself in the form of comic heroine Melody. Actually, this alter-ego may have been conceived years earlier, as Rancourt had already been working as an exotic dancer for 4 years before she put together the first edition & introduction to her character "Melody à Ses Debuts." It was during a temporary break from the business, due to sentimental reasons, that she decided to create her own autobiographical comic about life as a nude dancer.

"The comic encouraged me to return to work, I needed to work towards publishing & distributing my comic & I was determined to do this one way or another. It was this goal that lifted my morale & enabled me to return to stripping."

The comic was initially a way for Rancourt to "vent" about work as a stripper, to voice experiences that most strippers tend to keep to themselves out of fear of being judged by the common negative assumptions that stigmatize sex workers -assumptions that brand sex workers as criminal, sexually deviant, drug-addicted & so on... In fact, what I find particularly charming about Melody is her failure to overtly comment on or even acknowledge these negative assumptions & myths even though her characters are by no means void of these preconceived notions. For Melody is not a victim, nor is she a dogmatic symbol for the empowerment of the sex worker. She is who she is without apology -a young woman who likes to host sex orgies with her criminally-minded boyfriend & who happened upon a job as a stripper out of lack of any better opportunities. And Rancourt couldn't have chosen a better audience to first "vent" these stories to than the very patrons whom she performed for at the strip clubs. The first few photocopied editions of Rancourt's self-published zines were launched & distributed in the stripclubs where she worked.

Ana Mirallès: Jade I Presume

Nationality: Spain
Born: Madrid, 12.16.1959

After graduation of Fine Arts of San Carlos, Ana Mirallès draws for many Spanish fanzines before making illustrations for editions Gregal, Teide and Bromera.
Her first album "El Brillo de una Mirada" scenario by her companion Emilio Ruiz is published in black and white in 1990 by Palgrave General.
This is the erotic story of a woman who describes the relationships, and events that follow one another while shooting a commercial in a hotel. Subsequently, this work was re-color and re-released in Spain by Editorial Casset in France by Glénat under the title "Combat."
With Glénat she draws 'Seeking the unicorn'. This three-volume series is an adaptation of the novel by Eslava Galan Ruan, bestseller in Spain.
A sensitive and prolific writer, her work is available in a variety of picture books, postcards, book covers and magazines, exhibitions, collective work, advertising, screen, etc ...

With writer Jean Dufaux she works/worked at the "Djinn" series at Dargaud Benelux.
Available is also a documentary on Ana Mirallès working on the comic Djinn.
The film, directed by Emilio Zavala Ruiz , screenwriter and husband of Ana Mirallès begins with a slideshow that seems long at first, but actually lasts the length of a song , the time to settle into the mood . The images we see are zooming scroll -made thumbnails of Djinn series . All have one thing in common: they show the bodies. Dressed , painted or bare . Of the men but especially women .

Spanish Spoken with French subtitles. Someone can provide transcript in English?

Interview with Dee Chorde [15th october 2004]

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Rakko

Japan has its own erotic comic history and genre. Probably even more frowned upon then in the west.

In Japan they have (mandatory) schoolclubs. Which have advisors. Here the members of the photography club are not really into it. Which leaves the advisor in a pinch for the next weeks exhibition.

Btw, she also has the sight of a bat.

Comics are read from right to left

So they come up with the idea to make a swimsuit shoot. With the advisor as a model, they at least have done something.

Only they dont expect what follows.

Hip (Hop) Nymphs - Vaughn Bodé

Vaugn Bodé - Only the good die young?

 Many years after his tragic death Vaugn Bodé still had a big influence on the hip-hop and graffiti scene that emerged in the eighties, giving him a hero's cult status. His colorful nymphs can still be admired on walls and trains.
His son, Mark Bodé, also a comic artist, occasionally does the artwork on some of his father's unfinished scripts.

Marc Emery - Monday, October 3 2005  from Canabis Culture.com:

When I was thirteen years old, I started my first successful business venture? selling vintage Marvel comics out of my bedroom at home. My first catalog listing all the comics I sold came out on January 1st, 1971. Over the next four years, I had a most wonderful time going to comic book and science fiction conventions in that golden era.
I met the best comic book artists of the day in those innocent times: Jim Steranko, Jeff Jones, Neal Adams, Bernie Wrightson, and Jack Kirby. At the science-fiction conventions I met Harlan Ellison, Isaac Asimov, David Gerrold ? even R.A. Lafferty passed out in our suite one fine evening at the World Science Fiction convention in Washington, D.C. Sept. 2, 1974.

At the World Science Fiction Conventions of 1973 and 1974, in Toronto and Washington D.C., respectively, I was mesmerized by a slide show presented by a wizard of a man whose smile and joie de vivre lit up the crowded rooms.

He was Vaughn Bode, whose enigmatic cartoon character Cheech Wizard was at the back of every issue of National Lampoon magazine, the greatest counterculture satire magazine of its time from 1970?1975. P.J. O'Rourke, Harold Ramis, Jeff Jones, and Sherri Flenniken established themselves in that magazine.

Ok, So this guy really loves his Frank Thorne HC Red Sonja Art Edition

Frank Thorne, Monument in (Erotic) Comic History

After graduation, he drew the 'Perry Mason' newspaper strip for King Features, which was followed by more comic book work for Dell.

He turned out a multitude of stories for 'Flash Gordon', 'Jungle Jim', The Green Hornet', and many more.

Thorne's breakthrough came in 1975, when he was asked to draw 'Red Sonja' for Marvel.

He left 'Sonja' in 1978 to create his own woman warrior 'Ghita of Alizzar'.

Since then there has been no stopping to Thorne's vein of erotic fantasy, creating 'Lann' for Heavy Metal and 'Moonshine McJuggs' for Playboy during the 1980s and 'The Iron Devil' and 'The Devil'sAngel' during the 1990s.

In The Gutter: Frank Thorne Interview by Nick Blodgett

Frank Thorne is the artist behind countless comics, and the writer of some of the best illustrated erotica ever to see print. Frank Thorne’s career rocketed into orbit after his epic run on the original “Red Sonja” series of the 1970s, after which he created some of the world of comicdom’s most memorable women including: “Ghita of Alizarr” (for the Warren publication 1984) , “Lann” (Heavy Metal Magazine) , Moonshine “McJugs” (Playboy), and “Danger Rangerette” (National Lampoon/High-Times). Most recently he has returned to Playboy where you can catch his gag cartoons, run in almost every new issue of the magazine.

It never gets old:

Following item written by Nick Blodgett, Monday, February 11, 2008 [The Los Angeles Loyolan]

 

Believe it or not, boys and girls, but the comic book industry has long been a battleground for freedom of speech ; starting in the 1950s with congressional hearings aimed at determining their supposed impact on rising juvenile delinquency. The publisher most heavily targeted during these witch hunts was E.C. Comics. Ultimately, the hearings resulted in the "comics' code" which basically sucked all creativity and intelligence out of the medium. Throughout comics' history there have been those who opposed the code ? mainly the underground era of the sixties and seventies, the magazine craze of the eighties and the birth of independent and alternative comics in the nineties leading up to the present. The comics' code has now been abolished, and E.C. Comics can be read in their full, uncensored glory. I could dedicate months of columns to the extraordinary books E.C. put out, as they've contributed more to our popular culture than one can possibly share in this small space. Some of their conributions include "The Crypt Keeper" and the television show, "Tales From The Crypt," originally an E.C. comic. George Lucas has cited them as a major inspiration in his work, and they served as a launching pad for such great artists as Wally Wood and Frank Frazzetta.

As much as I love E.C. and recommend you seek out these gems, this column has, and will be, dedicated to lesser known artists and books. Which brings us to Dennis Cramer and his unique sadomasochistic epic "Mara: The Celtic Shamaness," and his own struggles regarding that wonderful First Amendment. The first thing you'll notice when reading Mara is the incredibly bizarre world she inhabits, which blends both elements of dystopian science fiction and heroic fantasy. The bulk of her adventures take place in two locations; In-City and the Wilderlands. In-City is your typical futuristic totalitarian world, everything is controlled by the government - you aren't even allowed to go barefoot, which upsets Mara to no end. This is as good a time as any to mention that, although Mara is not entirely a foot fetish book, Cramer definitely likes his feet - cute, girlish feet - and isn't afraid to express his love for them.

The Wilderlands exists as a place not yet touched by society where people have taken a fancy for primitive delights. Mara is torn in her struggle between these drastically different worlds; she has grown up in In-City but longs for the freedom of the Wilderlands.
Mara is by no means a simple series. In fact there is a glossary of terms at the beginning of each book to help you out. Cramer challenges readers to grow as his characters do. It may seem overly complicated, but Cramer has stated many times that he continues to make sacrifices to write and draw Mara for those who love her, and that is what one must do to enjoy her journey. Even though she is a character, Mara is portrayed as complex as a living breathing human being, with thoughts, desires, hopes and dreams.

Dennis Cramer never found a niche in the comic world and has virtually been exiled from its domain, driven out by constant criticism and opposition from peers and fans alike. This is in large part due to his being ahead of his time. While most adult books are centered around the simple plot of a buxom, naked girl running around, Mara does this, but with considerably smaller breasts and a purpose to her nudity. It also comes as no surprise that a character who lives from thrill to thrill and feeds on pain for her passion and will to fight would be hard pressed to be accepted in most markets let alone one driven by men in tights.

Cramer has overcome these setbacks, moving into the realm of illustrated prose which has overall been an enormous plus for the stories, as the reader is able to get a better sense of each character's internal motivation.

Why bother taking a chance on Mara? It's not for everyone as it includes graphic scenes of violence and sex, notably due to its inspiration from the works of another maverick, the Marquis De Sade. But for those who aren't afraid of a little darkness and can identify with Cramer and his character's feelings of wanting to be free in a world that still has a long way to go to get there, than you might be pleasantly surprised.

Comicbookdb: Mara: The Celtic Shamaness
Dennis Cramer aka Justine Mara Andersen

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