Chastity En Blue

This week's Blue Monday feature is Ron Embleton's comic, Sweet Chastity...

...featuring artwork from Azpiri, Milo Manara, Julie Bell, Boris Vallejo, Michael Lopez, Horatio Altuna, Luis Royo, and, of course, Ron Embleton.

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art by Ron Embleton, Azpiri, Luis Royo, Milo Manara, Horatio Altuna, Julie Bell, Boris Vallejo, and Michael Lopez for Penthouse & Penthouse Comix (1981-1988, 1997)

Beauty By Manara

When looking at erotic and naked art in comics, it was inevitable that we'd feature Milo Manara on multiple occasions. Nevertheless, let's do something a little special for his return to this edition of

Jumping back just under two decades to 1999, let's go to Aphrodite: Book One.
Les Humanoids published a translated edition of Pierre Louys' 19th century classic in a series of four books, each illustrated by a different artist. Presented here are the 15 plates Manara produced for the first volume.

NOTE: The images for this post contain much nudity and

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If that doesn't make you want to read it, what would?

art by Milo Manara for Aphrodite: Book One (1999)

 

Borgia In Blue

Alejandro Jodorowsky is one of those artists whose voice is so uniquely distinctive that he almost has to exist outside of the mainstream, while being admired by those who create there. His followers are passionate about his films, and time is usually quite favorable in how his work is viewed though it may frequently be less understood and often hidden from sight upon first release. El Topo, his earliest cult hit, with fans like John Lennon, created the midnight cult movie concept. The Holy Mountain defined him globally as the premiere surealist film maker of the time. His never-filmed adaptation of Dune is considered a lost treasure.
Later, he partnered with legendary French (so very, very French) artist Moebius to create The Incal series, again heavy in surrealism and mysticism at the core, even in the heavy scifi trappings.

So, what happens when you mix Alejandro Jodorowsky with peerless Italian erotic artist Milo Manara for an historical fiction based on the House of Borgia?
We get this week's

Their Borgia collaboration runs 4 volumes. We'll just be peeking into the first book today:

They immediately set the tone of the book in a single panel that opens the first view of Rome:

Early in the book, they set up the conflict between the Borgias and the Church...

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...the children are found alive in the closet there.
Of course, it wouldn't be proper Jodorowsky without a bit of surrealism and mysticism mixed in our imagery...

The tale goes into behind the scenes political manipulations to serve personal hatreds and agendas...


...culminating in a clash of power between the Borgia family and the Church...


Here ends the first book. Lest you suspect otherwise, with 52 pages of story, we've skipped quite a bit here. Both creators are masterful storytellers, and their talents combine well. Books 2-4 have been in the to-read piles for a while, but keep getting pushed back on my frequent "Maybe this should be saved for later" policy. Ergo comment on how the series develops shall have to be deferred until after reading.

But don't let that stop you from reading ahead. I don't mind.

pages by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Milo Manara from Borgia: book 1 (2006)