[Andrew999]

Rare comic trove discovered in Vancouver basement:

https://globalnews.ca/news/7304200/rare-comic-collection-vancouver/

[Andrew999]

You can have afternoon tea in a comic book:

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/28/malaysian-cafe-designed-to-loo.html

[Andrew999]

Yesterday, Italian police arrested a 66-year-old woman for stalking a 54-year-old man.

After a brief relationship, the man broke off the affair and from that point onwards, the woman stalked him, dressed in the manner of Eva Kant, the anti-heroine from Diabolik. She rang his phone all hours of the day and night, left threatening notes in milk bottles, scratched his car, followed him in Eva's costume.

Finally, the man snapped when she hired two thugs to beat him up and steal his wallet. Arresting her, police from Serigno found in her home, her Eva Kant costume of a black stretchable jump suit, black balaclava, gloves and boots

[Andrew999]

How did Batman help to develop James Bond?

In 1943, Lewis Wilson played Batman in the movie serial. Later, Lewis married screenwriter Dana Nicol. The marriage didn't work out but they had a son together - Michael.

Much later, Dana married Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli, the producer of the James Bond movies. Michael joined the family business. He co-scripted five of the Bond movies and developed the animated series James Bond Jr.

Could Batman be the reason James is so fascinated by gadgets?

[Andrew999]

Graphic art comes in many forms:

https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/japanese-artist-intricate-toast-lockdown-food

The universe has limits - your imagination does not - discuss

[Andrew999]

What do we feel - should they rub out the murals of this ratbag, or is that vandalism?

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/grafton-jail-murals-painted-by-comic-book-killer-leonard-lawson-to-be-preserved/ar-BB1abCrn

Here's Len's less-than-appealing story:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Lawson

[The Australian Panther]

More relevant to our subject on CB+,. Should his comic books be destroyed? Those that can still be found that is?
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/true-stories/the-brutal-true-story-of-australias-sadistic-comic-book-killer/news-story/aa46e2471e53a79ad7ad271d27959dc2

He was obviously a very sick man.

The following month, [after being married at the age of 18, Len got his biggest career break when he wrote and illustrated all the stories in the very first issue of Action Comics, published by H.J. Edwards Pty. Ltd.
Readers were thrilled by the science fiction tale of Spencer Steele, who was exploring the universe in the far-off future of 1956. Then there were the thrills of speed racer Johnnie Star and the adventures of detective Michael Justus.
But the second issue of Action Comics debuted the character who

[SuperScrounge]

What do we feel - should they rub out the murals of this ratbag, or is that vandalism?

We don't don't punish the children for the crimes of their father, so why should art be destroyed because the artist was a criminal?

[The Australian Panther]

I agree Scrounge. You found the right words to say it!

[Andrew999]

Here's a neat idea - the Zenit St Petersburg soccer team created a video comic to promote their new Champions League campaign:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLag04WYwj4

Sadly, despite the hype, the campaign started badly - Zenit lost 2-1 last night to Belgium's FC Brugge

(PS - I'm looking forward to Mark Miller doing a similar thing for Albion Rovers - I hope he's reading this)

[Andrew999]

You may have heard of Tijuana Bibles - but have you heard of Brazilian Catecismo?

https://aldianews.com/articles/culture/literature/mysterious-author-pornographic-comics-who-overcame-censorship-brazil

You can take a peek here - but please not in front of the children!:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_eJcNcLxx0

[SuperScrounge]

Hadn't heard the term Brazilian Catecismo, but the artist was mentioned in The Essential Guide To World Comics by Tim Pilcher & Brad Brooks. Interesting to learn a little more about him and see some of his work.

Was amused that academics kept interest in his work going. Almost as if they were trying to justify their wank material. 

[crashryan]

I understand the video's reluctance to show too much, so I may be wrong, but all the examples suggest that the catecismos were far less explicit than the Tijuana Bibles they're being compared to. More like the Italian digests in the 70s before they went full hardcore. The catecismos definitely have TJB's beat in the art department, though.

[SuperScrounge]

There are some online scans of his books and... yeah, they're explicit.

[Andrew999]

Scientists writing in the Astrophysical Journal Letters report an Earth-type planet travelling through the Milky Way on its own trajectory independently of any star - Space 1999 anyone, or The Wandering Earth?

[Andrew999]

Lithographs are a fascinating form of early illustration - but when you mix it with a Moon hoax, Dundee (comic book capital of the UK) and liturgical rivalry, what fun there is to be had:

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/dundee/1701436/moon-hoax-how-a-19th-century-dundee-minister-was-at-the-heart-of-the-greatest-fake-news-event-of-all-time/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithography

Perhaps we should start a thread - favourite lithographs and etchings - that would make it easier when you say to a girl, 'Come up and see my etchings sometime'

[Andrew999]

Never ever throw away your comic book collection:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/superhero-comic-collector-sells-15million-23010684

If only I could have impressed the importance of that on my mother.......

[Andrew999]

Borat Animation - Very nice

https://astanatimes.com/2020/11/kazakh-animators-to-produce-cartoons-about-kazakh-culture-promote-them-on-netflix-ivi/

[Andrew999]

This is one comic book I will definitely not be reading!

https://www.sentinelassam.com/north-east-india-news/assam-news/menstrupedia-comic-in-assamese-released-in-dibrugarh-514595

[Robb_K]

Evenif you COULD read Assamese, I'd wager!!! 

[Andrew999]

Still on an Indian theme, I'm struggling to think of a suitable comment for this:

https://www.sify.com/news/comic-series-chronicling-indias-maritime-heritage-launched-on-navy-day-news-national-umeoahciheggd.html

Might be interesting though - the Indian Navy has come a long way since the days when it was composed of clapped-out British frigates. My father was in the Royal Navy in the fifties and once had to show the new owners of a frigate what all the switches did. As a joke, he showed some young Indian sailors a red button and said, "I can't tell you why but trust me, you must never, ever, under any circumstances push this button." It freaked them out completely. (What it actually did was sluice the toilet sump below decks).

[Captain Audio]

Scientists writing in the Astrophysical Journal Letters report an Earth-type planet travelling through the Milky Way on its own trajectory independently of any star - Space 1999 anyone, or The Wandering Earth?

I rather doubt a interstellar rogue planet could be Earth like, certainly not habitable. It would be more like the deep frozen planetoids of the Oort cloud. Any gases would be in the form of ice at near absolute zero.

Pluto may have once been a wandering planetoid trapped by Sol's gravity.

[Andrew999]

How unreasonable new mothers can be sometimes:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/mum-upset-fiancs-stubborn-demand-23489447

[Andrew999]

Did you know most comic books are illegal in Canada?

?Section 163, 1b of the Criminal Code of Canada makes it a crime to possess, print, publish, or sell a crime comic if you are possessing that comic for the purposes of sale?

http://cbldf.org/2016/05/crime-comics-still-illegal-in-canada/

To me, what this illustrates is a common problem with over-regulation. Once a regulation has been introduced  in the interests of public safety (to be topical, let's say vaccine passports) it becomes almost impossible to remove it - what senator or MP is going to be brave enough to campaign to remove a public safety regulation - imagine the outcry - "Why are you in favour of promoting crime?" or more topically, "Why are you in favour of risking people's lives?"

[Andrew999]

Vote for Joker - You Know it Makes Sense:

https://indianexpress.com/article/trending/trending-globally/japan-man-dresses-as-joker-is-running-for-governor-election-7225572/