So this has been a mixed day for me - horribly ill in the morning - and better in the afternoon. I feared that I would lie broke all day and not get my Phill-page finished, but then I sleept and am now almost finished. So I had a small time for writing a post here.
I found (or rather was shown on Diaspora) that the Internet Archive has a lot of the old Heavy Metal magazines online. Heavy Metal was the US sister magazine to the ground-breaking French Métal hurlant that was founded by Moebius and Philippe Druillet.
I remember reading the Danish version called Total Metal in the late eighties with greatest hits from the old French and US magazines. I was about 14-15 years old and my classmates were shocked by some of the psychedelic seventies fantasies when I once brought a magazine to school. I was quite shocked myself sometimes :)
Here is the link to the Internet Archive
And I recommend this issue where you can read the complete story of VUZZ by Druillet.
I actually did not know the history of Moebius connected with Heavy Metal's original magazine, that is pretty awesome. Those two covers are awesome.
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Yes, it is fun to see how the wonderkid Jean Giraud (Moebius) copied some of the weird art nouveau of Druillet. I think they learned a lot from each other.
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Oooh
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Yessss...
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Great find! I'd definitely like to study these as I'm not that well versed in the European artists. I can't imagine these are public domain though, I always feel a bit bad using resources like this.
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Yes, I admit not to have checked but it looked awfully legit... which proves nothing :) I try to buy art and to support it too... but this was just to fine a treasure. Maybe the internet archive is simply the youtube of texts?
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