The Adventures of Jodelle

Posted on by Guy Peellaert Pierre Bartier Kim Thompson Pierre Sterckx
The Adventures of Jodelle Best known for his collage style images of celebrities Rock Dreams and a handful of classic record covers David Bowie s Diamond Dogs and The Rolling Stones It s Only Rock N Roll the Belgian painter

Best known for his collage style images of celebrities Rock Dreams and a handful of classic record covers David Bowie s Diamond Dogs and The Rolling Stones It s Only Rock N Roll , the Belgian painter, illustrator and cartoonist Guy Peellaert created two major graphic novels in the 1960s.Originally serialized in the satirical French magazine Hara Kiri and subsequentlyBest known for his collage style images of celebrities Rock Dreams and a handful of classic record covers David Bowie s Diamond Dogs and The Rolling Stones It s Only Rock N Roll , the Belgian painter, illustrator and cartoonist Guy Peellaert created two major graphic novels in the 1960s.Originally serialized in the satirical French magazine Hara Kiri and subsequently released as a very early adult graphic novel by the legendary French comics publisher Eric Losfeld, The Adventures of Jodelle written by Pierre Bartier melded the bold compositional skills of a top pop art era draftsman with a unique sensitivity to the comics medium.Jodelle, a satirical spy adventure set in an Asterix style anachronistic Cesarepoch fantasy Rome featuring both billboards and vampires, was published in English in 1967 by Grove Press, whose legendary editor in chief Richard Seaver also provided the translation.Jodelle will be restored and re colored digitally to improve on the original s sometimes shaky color separations, as well as re translated and re lettered, and will feature a major analytical contextual essay by the French art and comics critic and historian Pierre Sterckx Tintin Schizo Ren Magritte The Empire of Images discussing the work and its historical context plus a huge selection of never before seen archival art reproductions, sketches, photographs, etc It will be printed as a lush, oversized hardcover, in a way that

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  1. Guy Peellaert Pierre Bartier Kim Thompson Pierre Sterckx says:
    Guy Peellaert was a Belgian artist, painter, illustrator, comic artist and photographer, most famous for the book Rock Dreams, and his album covers for rock artists like David Bowie Diamond Dogs and The Rolling Stones It s Only Rock n Roll He also designed film posters for films like Taxi Driver, Paris, Texas, and Short Cuts The band Frankie Goes to Hollywood took their name from Peellaert s painting, titled Frank Sinatra, which featured the headline Frankie Goes Hollywood.

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  1. Honestly, I did not have high hopes for this book other than color palette and I was surprised A smart, sexy, yes very sexy, spy book And it had the same cheekiness I found in Laura Weinstein s Goddess of War despite being published decades before in another language Enjoyed most of the back matter describing Peellaert s subsequent freelance career thanks to Jodelle Liked this book so much I made a mini mural.Caveat I work for the company that published this title.

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  2. In one word Superb This is not only an over sized version of the comic strip The Adventures of Jodelle, but also a mini retrospective on the works of Guy Peelaert, who among other things, worked with Serge Gainsbourg, William Klein, and was totally in tuned with the American pop art scene of the 1960s Which by the way, the comic strip reads like a manifesto of the times and to this day, the graphics are at least as fresh as youth going for their first kiss It s a remarkable book The first part i [...]

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  3. I d never seen or heard of these Jodelle comics, but just to flip through the book is like a blast into another time Apparently Peelaert was the Andy Warhol of Europe and it is not hard to see how His art is psychedelic fabulous The colors and style and crazy naked cartoon battles were a blast My feminist sensibilities were sore a couple pages in though Women using sex as power was probably huge at the time, but it hits me now as exploitative and not always entertaining I love the colors and bol [...]

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  4. I was a little uncomfortable at first this is a hyper sexualized book with copious amounts of female nudity, and comics only very rarely rise above the level of 12 year old boy when it comes to maturity about sexuality but once I settled in, I had a genuinely great time Peellaert s colors are legendarily gorgeous, and his sense of design is fantastic as well But most of all, what I love here is the book s loopy surrealism, its rampant, madcap sense of fun The book also includes extensive backmat [...]

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  5. Chickadees with spy skills, an allergy to clothing, and boundless love of freedom this is the company Brussels born cult artist Guy Peellaert kept when he shook the art and comic strip worlds in the mid 1960s The reprint of his work by Fantagraphics proves that Peellaert s now ageing Jodelle is no less irresistible than she used to be.Full review agendamagazine en blog

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  6. What a nutty story The art really grabbed me it reminded me of the Yellow Submarine animation And everyone can appreciate drawings of curvy attractive ladies I had trouble following the goofy, zany plot, but it was fun nonetheless.

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  9. Stupid plot, dumb jokes, and incredibly unsexy for an erotica comic The only decent thing is the coloring, with a bright palette that really pops off the page.

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