Barbarella (comic)

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Barbarella is the best-known comic by the French comic artist and author Jean-Claude Forest .

action

The science fiction heroine Barbarella, who is reminiscent of Brigitte Bardot due to her anatomy, travels from planet to planet and experiences various space adventures that prompt her to regularly take off her skin-tight spacesuit and sexually unite with various space dwellers, including robots. The plot of the comic is divided into separate chapters.

publication

The comic, which was drawn with an unusually erratic line for the time, was first published in 1962 as a strip in the French V-Magazine , at the request of publisher Georges H. Gallet, and in 1964 as an album by Eric Losfeld's Le Terrain Vague .

A second album by Barbarella , Les Colères du mange-minutes , was published by Kesselring in 1974, the third, Le Semble-lune , by Pierre Horay in 1977, a fourth album, Le Miroir aux tempetes , drawn in collaboration with Daniel Billon, in 1981 the comic magazine L'Echo des Savanes , 1982 as an album with the Éditions du Fromage.

In 1965/66, the American magazine Evergreen Review published Barbarella in issues # 37-39 (Oct., Nov., Feb.), a paperback edition was released by Grove Press at the start of the film . A German-language edition was published in 1966 by Schünemann Verlag and later by Bertelsmann and Heyne . In the early 1990s, Carlsen Verlag published a complete German edition. An Italian-language edition appeared in the magazine Linus in 1967 .

effect

The comic, which experienced an enormous increase in popularity due to the intervention of the French censors after the album was released, was filmed in 1968 by Roger Vadim under the title Barbarella . The main actress in the comic adaptation was Vadim's wife at the time, Jane Fonda . A musical adaptation was premiered in Vienna in March 2004. For Andreas C. Knigge , Uranella , published in Italy in 1966, and Vampirella , published three years later in the United States, are imitations.

In 1967, Fritz J. Raddatz wrote in Die Zeit that “the new heroines of the western world”, to whom he counted alongside Barbarella also Jodelle and Phoebe Zeit-Geist , were “servants of a fashionable snob appeal” who “helped the illiterate reading man [... ] should serve ". According to Franco Fossati, on the other hand , Barbarella is “an enjoyable cocktail for adult readers”, as Forest understood excellently to “combine classic space opera with humor and daring scenes”. For Andreas C. Knigge, who lists comics in his 50 classic comics , Barbarella has contributed to the emancipation of comics.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas C. Knigge: Comic-Lexikon . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1996, ISBN 3-499-16519-8 , pp. 199 .
  2. ^ Jean-Claude Forest on lambiek.net , accessed March 30, 2009
  3. ^ Andreas C. Knigge: Comics . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1996, ISBN 3-499-16519-8 , pp. 263 .
  4. ↑ Barbarella at Schünemann Verlag on comicguide.de, accessed March 30, 2009
  5. ↑ Barbarella at Carlsen Verlag on comicguide.de, accessed March 30, 2009
  6. ^ A b Franco Fossati: The large illustrated Ehapa comic lexicon . Ehapa Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7704-0865-9 , p. 24 .
  7. ↑ Barbarella - Half-naked in space on Spiegel Online from August 13, 2008, accessed on July 21, 2017
  8. ↑ Gerhard Persché: The number revue on the orgasm organ .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 18, 2004, page 15@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.sueddeutsche.de  
  9. ↑ Andreas C. Knigge: 50 Classic Comics. From Lyonel Feininger to Art Spiegelman . Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 2004, ISBN 3-8067-2556-X , p. 166 .
  10. ↑ Fritz J. Raddatz : The new heroines of the western world . In: Die Zeit , No. 11/1967
  11. ↑ Andreas C. Knigge: 50 Classic Comics. From Lyonel Feininger to Art Spiegelman . Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 2004, ISBN 3-8067-2556-X , p. 165 .