Bande Dessinée Adulte.

Not much  going on here beyond a glorified link post with some pilfered images I’m afraid, but, since I no longer ‘do’ tumblr, I thought this might be a good space in which to share a link to this wonderful collection of scanned French (or Italian-translated-into-French?) fumetti covers that I discovered earlier today. (Tip-off via Monster Brains.)

Though I’m often fairly ambivalent about their contents, I absolutely love the hyper-sleazoid, ultra-pulp painted covers on these ‘70s/’80s fumetti, and a few favourites I’ve discovered through the aforementioned site are displayed above. Well, a few of the more tasteful ones anyway, because I’m still at least trying to keep things family-friendly ‘round here, goddamnit. Or PG-13 rated, at least. So, ‘15’ in the UK I suppose, or… well NOTHING BELOW THE WAIST anyway, that’s all I’m sayin’. (Mops brow with handkerchief and looks pensive.)

(Also quite interesting is this link, from the same site, which rather exhaustively chronicles instances in which imagery on these covers was ripped off from movie posters, stills, magazine photos, porn and, well, yeah - mostly porn, to be honest…)

‘The Escapees’ review at Fascination.

It’s been a while since I’ve written anything for my Rollinades strand, so thanks are due to Jeremy Richey of the consistently excellent Fascination weblog for inviting me to contribute a guest-post, thus providing me with the impetus I needed to put together a review of one of Jean Rollin’s more underappreciated films, 1981’s ‘Les Eschappees’ aka ‘The Escapees’ aka ‘The Runaways’.

The review is up there right now, and in some ways I think it manages to get to the heart of what I love about Rollin’s films more clearly than anything I’ve written in the past, so, uh, yeah – by all means give it a look, if you’re thus inclined.