Krimi magazine

KRIMI! - The new magazine for central european crime culture out soon.

https://krimimagazine.blogspot.com/

https://boriscreamviii.blogspot.com/2024/09/krimi-new-magazine-for-central-european.html

John Berryman

The Traveller by John Berryman

They pointed me out on the highway, and they said
'That man has a curious way of holding his head.'

They pointed me out on the beach; they said 'That man
Will never become as we are, try as he can.'

They pointed me out at the station, and the guard
Looked at me twice, thrice, thoughtfully & hard.

I took the same train that the others took,
To the same place. Were it not for that look
And those words, we were all of us the same.
I studied merely maps. I tried to name
The effects of motion on the travellers,
I watched the couple I could see, the curse
And blessings of that couple, their destination,
The deception practised on them at the station,
Their courage. When the train stopped and they knew
The end of their journey, I descended too.

Laurasbeatingart

LaurasBeatingArt

https://bio.site/laurasbeatingart

https://www.youtube.com/laurasbeatingart

NHK Let's Learn Japanese

There was also another Japanese language study series named NHK Japanese: how to survive in Japan?which was produced by the Japanese TV Network NHK in 1989. This 40-part series was about David Roberts (ostensibly an American but speaks with an Australian accent) who went to Japan for work. He was assisted by a beautiful girl named Yuko Goto, and in later episodes they are joined by David's wife, Cathy Roberts. David was going to introduce to Japan American culture and food with the American Train.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X3OArGiAVZE

German Popular Cinema 1960s

When there is a critical appraisal of German cinema, it inevitably focuses on the Weimar period, with its Expressionism and Cabinets of Caligari and Metropolises, then the Nazi period films of Leni Riefenstahl and others, and finally the New German Cinema films of Fassbinder, Herzog, Wenders, and others and all their socially aware artsy films that often could barely draw an audience and were subsidized by the TV industry. Lost in this narrative is the German popular cinema of the 60's - the last truly popular movies made for mass entertainment before everyone stayed home watching television. The Wikipedia article on German Cinema just calls this era "cinema in crisis". What nonsense. 

This was a cinema hardly in crisis. It was a boom time of genre films that appealed to large audiences, not only in Germany but throughout Europe. It was the era of European coproductions, and stars that rose through these popular works were soon coveted by movie producers across the continent as a way to earn some money through the German market. It's why Klaus Kinski appears in so many Italian westerns, Gert Frobe became Goldfinger, Joachim Fuchsberger and Heinz Drache appeared in Fu Manchu. The Edgar Wallace series of Krimi led to the Italian Giallo. The Karl May series of Westerns led to A Fistful of Dollars and the Spaghetti Westerns. This period of film is almost entirely neglected by critics, which means that this is where all the good stuff is. Of course, it couldn't last. As more and more people bought televisions, movies turned to the one thing they couldn't still see at home - nudity. But even that was short lived, as the rise of hardcore cinema chipped away at that market from the other side, leading to the collapse of German popular cinema and the rise of cinema as a niche interest, pretty much where it has lived ever since. 

https://boxd.it/gc6bS

Francisco Solano López

Francisco Solano López - Argentine comic artist

Young Witches
Erotic comic series by Ricardo Barreiro and Francisco Solano López.

Degrading daliances in dungeons. " A lavishly illustrated European import that goes behind the scenes of a nineteenth century London feminist witches' coven." -Face London, in the last third of the 19th century. After bringing death to her mother in childbirth, and shame and suicide to her father due to her illegitimacy, young Lilian Cunnington is shipped off ther her aunts near Conventry. As it turns out, Lilian's aunts are the leaders of a coven of witches, whose twisted rituals frequently involve their nubile charges in grotesque exhibitions. 

Soon, Lilian, tapping into both her unsuspectedly powerful psychic abilities and her omnisexual potential, begins to uncover the darker secrets of the coven, and the resultant battle of wills ends in a climactic conflagration. 

Illustrated by the interationally renowned South American cartoonist F. SOLANO LOPEZ (creator of such acclaimed graphic novels as Deep City and Ana), Young Witches is a tale of magic and power, of sex and sadism, of witches and mutants - a supernatural thriller that will scare you and arouse you at the same time. As a special bonus, this expanded version of Young Witches includes extra pages of sizzling, explicit sex action created especially for this edition

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/oct/24/francisco-solano-lopez

Eduardo Paolozzi

Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi CBE RA was a Scottish artist, known for his sculpture and graphic works. He is widely considered to be one of the pioneers of pop art

https://www.theartstory.org/artist/paolozzi-eduardo/

https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/artists/eduardo-paolozzi

Derek Riggs

Derek Riggs is a contemporary British artist best known for creating the band Iron Maiden's mascot, "Eddie".

http://derek.server311.com/derekriggs.com/

https://www.instagram.com/derekriggsart/?hl=en

Peter Pontiac

Peter Pontiac - Dutch cartoonist

https://www.lambiek.net/artists/p/pontiac1.htm

https://www.instagram.com/peterpontiac.gallery/?hl=en

Breaking Out Solo

Breaking Out Solo (Burma travel blog)

https://www.breakingoutsolo.com/2019/12/yangon-circular-railway.html

https://www.breakingoutsolo.com/search/label/Myanmar

Vera Stanley Alder

Vera Stanley Alder 1894 – 1984

Alder was a successful portrait painter who began to explore into the meaning of life and researched into what is known as ‘The Ancient Wisdom.’ This she defined as ‘the vast body of information dealing with the meaning and purpose of man himself and the constitution and evolution of the whole universe.’ She saw her task as one of simplifying and summarising this information in order for it to be more accessible. She wrote several books and pamphlets on self-help and spirituality. She founded the World Guardian Fellowship.

https://albion.org.uk/vera-stanley-alder-1894-1984/

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

Santo Street

https://www.santostreet.com/

https://www.santostreet.com/subpages/WWarticle.htm

The Mexican movie posters for sale on this website are all vintage originals.

David Fairbrother-Roe

Olias of Sunhillow

David Fairbrother-Roe

A Liverpool-born artist and graphic designer, Dave produced artwork for the original Isle of Wight Festivals, covers for Anne McCaffrey's pern books and album sleeves for Jon Anderson, Nazareth and Popol Ace.

https://dragondaze6.webnode.co.uk/

Olias of Sunhillow

https://www.sonicperspectives.com/features/jon-anderson-olias-of-sunhillow/

https://olias.wordpress.com/

Raúlo Cáceres

Spanish comic artist Raúlo Cáceres

https://raulocaceres.es/

https://www.instagram.com/raulocacerescomic/

Books

Woman's lore : 4,000 years of sirens, serpents and succubi by Sarah Clegg (2023)

Creatures like Lilith, the seductive first wife of Adam, and mermaids, who lured sailors to their death, are familiar figures in the genre of monstrous temptresses who use their charms to entice men to their doom. But if we go back 4,000 years, the roots of these demons lie in horrific creatures like Lamashtu, a lion-headed Mesopotamian demon who strangled infants and murdered pregnant women, and Gello, a virgin ghost of ancient Greece who killed expectant mothers and babies out of jealousy. Far from enticing men into danger and destruction, these monsters were part of women's ritual practices surrounding childbirth and pregnancy. So how did their mythology evolve into one focused on the seduction of men?

Sarah Clegg takes us on an absorbing and witty journey from ancient Mesopotamia to the present day, encountering a multitude of serpentine succubi, a child-eating wolf-monster of ancient Greece, the Queen of Sheba and a host of vampires. Clegg shows how these demons were appropriated by male-centred societies, before they were eventually recast as symbols of women's liberation, offering new insights into attitudes towards womanhood, sexuality and women's rights.

The Nirvana Express: How the Search for Enlightenment Went West By Mick Brown · (2023)

In 1897, an Indian yogi named Bava Lachman Dass exhibited himself at the Westminster Aquarium in London, demonstrating forty-eight yoga positions to a bemused audience. Four years earlier, Hindu philosopher Swami Vivekananda had spoken at the first World Parliament of Religions in Chicago, where theosophist Annie Besant rhapsodised about 'his inborn sense of worth' and the 'exquisite beauty' of his spiritual message. The Victorians had conflicted views on the religious beliefs and practices of the Indian sub-continent, blending fascination and suspicion. But within two generations, legions of young Westerners would be following the 'hippie trail' to India, and the Beatles would be meditating at the feet of the guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Journalist Mick Brown's vivid account charts the eccentric history of the West's evolving love affair with Indian religion through a curious cast of scholars, seekers, charlatans and saints. From Edwin Arnold, whose epic poem about the life of the Buddha became a best-seller in Victorian Britain, to the occultist and magician Aleister Crowley; and from spiritual teachers Jiddu Krishnamurti, Meher Baba and Ramana Maharshi to the controversial guru Rajneesh, 'The Nirvana Express' is an exhilarating, sometimes troubling journey through the West's search for enlightenment.

Carol Forman

Sombra

The Spider Lady

Carol Forman played The Spider Lady in the 1948 serial "Superman" and Sombra in The Black Widow serial (1947), Laska in The Miraculous Blackhawk: Freedom's Champion (1952) and Nila in Federal Agents vs. Underworld, Inc. (1949)

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Carol_Forman

https://femalevillains.fandom.com/wiki/Spider_Lady_(Superman)

https://filesofjerryblake.com/serial-villains/carol-forman/

https://femalevillains.fandom.com/wiki/Nila_(Federal_Agents_vs._Underworld,_Inc.)

https://femalevillains.fandom.com/wiki/Laska_(The_Miraculous_Blackhawk:_Freedom%27s_Champion)

Gothic Romance comics

https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/The-Dark-Mansion-of-Forbidden-Love

https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Ghosts

https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Marvel-Horror-The-Magazine-Collection

https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Forbidden-Tales-of-Dark-Mansion

https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Night-Nurse-1972

https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Haunted-Love-1973

https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/House-of-Mystery-1951

https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Secrets-of-Haunted-House

https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/The-Witching-Hour-1969

https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Chilling-Adventures-In-Sorcery-1973

https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Nightmare-1970

Sitcoms

Come Back Mrs. Noah - UK

Come Back Mrs Noah is a British sitcom starring Mollie Sugden that aired on BBC1 from 17 July to 14 August 1978 with a pilot broadcast on 13 December 1977. It was written by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft, who had also written Are You Being Served? which also starred Mollie Sugden. Come Back Mrs Noah was not a success, with some regarding it as one of the worst British sitcoms ever made.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_Back_Mrs._Noah

https://www.comedy.co.uk/features/comedy_chronicles/strange-sitcoms/

The Trouble with Tracy (1970) - Canada

The Trouble with Tracy is a Canadian television series produced by CTV for the 1970–1971 television season. It is considered by some to be one of the worst situation comedies ever produced.

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

https://lostmediawiki.com/The_Trouble_with_Tracy_(partially_found_Canadian_sitcom;_1970-1971)

Rudy Obrero

Rudy Obrero was one of the first illustrators to work on the Masters of the Universe toyline. He created the iconic packaging artwork for many beloved MOTU toys, including Castle Grayskull, Battle Cat, Wind Raider, Battle Ram, and others. He has been a professional illustrator for 39 years.

https://battleramblog.com/rudy-obrero-heroic-master-of-illustration/

https://battleramblog.com/

Sideshow Banner Artists

Snap Wyatt

Fred G. Johnson

Fred G. Johnson is considered to be one of the finest sideshow banner painters in the history of the circus and sideshow world. He had a 65-year career of banner painting, creating many works that are still prized by collectors and museums around the world. He worked for the O. Henry Tent and Awning Company in Chicago for 40 years from 1934 – 1974.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_G._Johnson

Snap Wyatt (1905-1984) was a prolific painter of circus banners and created a substantial number of banners over the years. He was known for his speed and bold, cartoon-like style.

https://hepcatshaven.com/2012/01/25/fred-g-johnson-a-one-man-circus/

https://www.cultofweird.com/sideshow/fred-johnson-sideshow-banners/

https://sideshowbanner.com/