Thank-you!
As requested, here it is. I will add to it periodically if members find the content interesting. I have a wide range of WIP and FF interests, so expect a variety of material – assorted genres, perils, deaths, artists, time periods, extreme and moderate pics. For now, I’ll contribute only 2D and 3D artwork to this forum. Later I may begin separate threads for photos and film clips. I assume my posts are from royalty free sources and not copyrighted, but as this is not always possible to assess, I will remove any files if their creators do not want them distributed. I assume McQuade has released the rights to his work, so anything of his I find I will add to Ilhuydd’s thread on the main discussion forum.
You’re welcome. Not having to plough your copy through a scanner may also spare it from damage – an especially important consideration if it is an undoubtedly rare hard-cover version. As with most sources I digitized, Misty and the Sun Jewel is somewhat worse for wear after its ordeal being run through my flatbed.
Almost certainly these comics are fumetti, paperback sized adult zines about 200 pages long. They began as photo-novellas in the early sixties (in Italy I believe). Traditional, hand-drawn comics were added later in the decade and boomed throughout Europe (and Quebec) until they expired in the mid-90’s (most likely pushed out by videotapes, DVDs and internet shares featuring similar content).G-Man wrote: ↑Thu Sep 16, 2021 12:56 pm OH... Oh... you mentioned you have graphic comics from around the world.
Back in the 1980's while I was in Greece, there were different types of graphic comics
(mostly horror themes) available on news stands there. Their quality and graphic scenes were
on the same level as McQuade's.
Also looking thru them it appeared they were available through-out western Europe
for I also seen Italian versions of the same comic.
Anyway... do you know of these comics I speak of? And... if so do you have any?
But nothing can match the range of genres and lurid story lines of the fumetti, especially when the publishers removed all restrictions in the 1980’s. The (usually hardcore) sex and violence in some of the titles were as extreme as anything I have ever come across. The covers alone -- prominently on display in almost every continental newsstand -- were something to behold, and are now valued collectibles on the ‘net. I’m sure many of the 10000 visitors at Femme Fatalities are quite familiar with fumetti. In fact several web sites are dedicated to them.
But long before they were known in North America, I came across these nasty little tomes in their heyday during my travels overseas. Although the publishers were mostly Italian and French, I found them in virtually every European country I visited except (of course) Great Britain. Which brings up the fumettis’ biggest drawback: they were available in almost every language EXCEPT English. Fortunately, I speak several languages well enough to understood the narratives, which often are as bizarre as the action depicted in the (usually excellent) artwork.
Fumetti, especially used ones, were cheap as dirt, so I bought them by the truckload. In one of the stupidest moves of my life, I tossed hundreds of them when I ran out of storage space. I now see some I purchased for a dollar or two selling online for 30 bucks or more. Today I have only a few dozen originals in my collection.
Remarkably, many copies from decades ago have somehow survived, and a diligent connoisseur in Italy named Charles has made it his life’s mission to scan the entire contents of every title he can find. He is still at it and releases new scans daily for free. Most fumetti sites offer only the (often misleading) covers, but Charles digitizes each original in its entirety. You can download any of his (currently) 9000+ collection here...
https://vintagecomix.blogspot.com/?zx=150e8ed59c0c57bc
The trick with fumetti is that only a subset of the tens of thousands available feature fetish content that is of interest to us. Along with the dark fantasy stories we enjoy, there are also comedies, romances, westerns, and so on, quite a few with unexpected female demise scenes, but many with bupkis. Still thousands feature nubile beauties biting the dust, often in the nude. Picking the best ones is a challenge, and over the years I’ve identified which series offer the most bang for the buck, so if anyone is interested I can write another post to help fumetti novices select the volumes with the best chance of peril and death content.
Okay… that’s way more than I wanted to write about this topic and certainly more than you want to know. Fumetti have been circulating on the ‘net for at least 20 years now, so like I said, this is probably old news for many of you. What you may not know is that a few people, including myself, have translated and restored some of our favorite titles (a not insignificant undertaking BTW), allowing them to be understood by English-speaking readers. Below is an example. Be forewarned, the ones I Anglicized are pretty graphic. If you want to see more, let me know.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/lum4glka ... 0.pdf/file
Finally, if you are interested only in fumetti covers featuring female peril and demise, here is a small sample of the many I have saved.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/dlwtpo7x ... 1.zip/file
