Epoxy (comic)
Epoxy is a Franco-Belgian comic published in 1968 with an erotic content. It marked Jean Van Henne's entry into the world of comics.
action
The young Epoxy is on a sailing tour near the Greek coast, where after a collision with his large yacht, she falls into the hands of the enigmatic Koltar, whose life is dominated by pleasure. After this yacht goes down in a storm, epoxy washes ashore alone and naked. There she suddenly finds herself in a world of Greek mythology . She comes under the control of the Amazons , is freed by Heracles and Theseus , but then left alone by them. She is released from captivity by centaurs after life-threatening entanglements, but subsequently kidnapped by Zeus . Left in the lurch, Epoxy becomes prisoner of Argos , who is killed by Hermes . He gives her a bracelet and enables her to go on a trip to the underworld , where she is allowed to return to the real world.
The sleeping epoxy is found by researchers, brought to their base camp and taken care of. In the event of a surprising volcanic eruption, Epoxy, who is still wearing the bracelet Hermes gave her, follows her inner voice calling her to the gods and plunges into a crater.
Draftsman, Author and Publications
Jean Van Hamme wrote the 68 page story for Paul Cuvelier , who wanted to draw an adult comic book. They named the figure epoxy resin after the short name of the synthetic resin , as Van Hamme was working with it at the time.
The comic was released as an album in April 1968. The story published by Eric Losfeld was initially published in bichrome , color versions were only created in 1997 (coloration by François Craenhals ) and 2003. In German-speaking countries, the comic was published in 1970 by the publishing house of the European library, HM Hieronimi. Another publication was made by the comic magazine Pip , which printed Epoxy from issue 6/1971 to issue 6/1972 as a continuation story. The album published in 1987 by the Dutch publisher Blue Circle was a reprint of the Hieronimi album from 1970. A German-language color version was only published in February 2003 by the publisher Schreiber & Leser.
External perception and classification
Epoxy was part of a series of works that emerged after the success of Barbarella and that picked up on Pop Art and the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s while being emphatically avant-garde. At the same time, Epoxy was Van Hammes first comic book scenario. Andreas C. Knigge and Achim Schnurrer rate it as positive that "the classic myths would not be completely deformed" in epoxy . According to Knigge, the epoxy figure is "the fifth and last great comic heroine of the Losfeld era". Harald Havas counts Epoxy as one of the comics that heralded "the beginning of the age of adult comics".
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Epoxy on bdzoom.com (French) , accessed January 29, 2013
- ^ Epoxy on bedetheque.com (French) , accessed January 29, 2013
- ↑ Album Epoxy at Hieronimi on comicguide.de , accessed on January 29, 2013
- ↑ Andreas C. Knigge: To be continued . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main; Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-548-36523-X , p. 234.
- ↑ Epoxy at Blue Circle on comicguide.de , accessed on January 29, 2013
- ↑ Epoxy at Schreiber & Leser on comicguide.de , accessed on January 29, 2013
- ↑ Andreas C. Knigge: Comics - From mass paper to multimedia adventure . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 1996, ISBN 3-499-16519-8 , p. 260.
- ↑ Jean Van Hamme on lambiek.net (English) , accessed on January 29, 2013
- ^ Andreas C. Knigge: Comic Lexikon . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 239.
- ↑ Andreas C. Knigge, Achim Schnurrer: Bilderfrauen, Frauenbilder. An annotated photo documentation about the image of the woman in the comic. Hannover 1979, ISBN 3-88464-010-0 , p. 97.
- ↑ Andreas C. Knigge: Sex in comics . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main; Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-548-36518-3 , p. 186.
- ↑ Harald Havas: Comic Worlds. History and structure of the ninth art, Edition Comic Forum 1992, ISBN 3-900390-61-4 , p. 222.