What you're looking at here is an invitation to a "Vampyros Lesbos" party that took place in NYC in the late 90s. And what you're gleaning from my curt tone is the fact that I didn't get to attend said party--I did hang on to the flyer, which in the past was pinned to my wall in my workspace. Apparently the party has a rather legendary reputation among... you know... people who are cooler than I am--or at least better than I am at making nightclub-going decisions. I'd like to believe that someone reading this right now got to check out Vampyros Lesbos and has fond (if Chemically Altered) memories of his or her time there.
DJ Franc O--wherever you are, I salute you and your sexadelic excellence.
While rummaging through some boxes of paper ephemera, I stumbled on this catalog of "Italian Pulp Art Offerings from a Private Collection," advertising original gouache-on-board cover paintings from fumetti neri like "Zora," "Cimiteria," and "Sukia." Now, I'd feel a LOT worse about this if I didn't receive the catalog secondhand from a pal, because, upon looking at the price sheet, it appears that these beauties were priced between $500 and $800. Anyone who is interested in collecting art should be scraping his or her jaw off the floor right now at the sheer affordability of such insane pieces.
Scans of the rest of the catalog are posted below. Click on the image to see larger-scale versions on Flickr:
The look on the face of the gal in the back of the bottom-center piece is priceless. "Holy crap--he's PULLING OFF her leg!" Apparently the victim is hinged like a GI Joe figure.
I like the fact that "Ululua" appears to be the love child of Vampirella and Wolverine.
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This settles it. The Love Train proves conclusively that Italy's nerdy kink beats the hell out of Japan's nerdy kink.
Those fumetti covers are just marvellous (by far the best bit of the magazines, from what I've seen) I'd love to own some of that original art. Just a good coffee table book collection of reproductions would be nice.
Swazis & lez-torture with a stiff---
Foo-mutha-f-ing-tastic.
(however unsavory the subject matter, the fumetti hacks know how to draw --manga-hacks merely decorate, as do most of 'merican dilberts )
Soukesian, I'd LOVE to own a coffee-table book of these prints! It'd be nice to see something like the volumes of American pulp paintings that have been released over the past several years. Taschen folks--are you listening...? ;)
CS and J, I think I'm the Eurotrash equivalent of the Otaku-culture people. Is there a word for that? Other than "pervert?"
In Italian the word is, unsurprisingly, pervertito. So there you go.
You know what's most fascinating to me about this sort of art is that it's a kind of evolution of what's happening in the movies that the art represents. Lots of giallo has subtle cues of BDSM themes but very little of it ever actually "goes there". This fumetti stuff doesn't even blink before committing explicit scenes of kink to canvas. I wonder what the disconnect is.
Thanks for sharing this flyer. I've had a torn bit in my scrapbook since I was a college student. Those parties were amazing! I was lucky enough to go a few times and I loved everything about it. I even got to meet the cage dancers!
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