Friday Fun MONSTER TIMES "It Crawled From Out of the Woodwork!"

Our final entry into the "roach comic" category is a fumetti...

...a comic strip told with photos (enhanced by artwork) from the tabloid-format sci-fi/horror newspaper The Monster Times #3 (1973)!

It's larger than our normal formatting because the typeset lettering would be unreadable in our normal presentation size!
Creative credits for the strip are unknown, but we can tell you the creators/art directors of Monster Times; Larry Brill and Les Waldstein; also performed the same tasks for Al Goldstein's notorious X-rated tabloid SCREW! which featured a number of comics artists including Wally Wood, Drew Friedman, and Tony Millionare!

CoronaVirus Comics: LOCKDOWN HEROES! The Portfolio Created Against Covid-19

Italian comics (or "Fumetti") artist Milo Manara is noted for his beautiful (often nude) women...

...though not in his work for America's PG-13 Marvel Comics!

But these last few months, living in an Italy under total lockdown, Manara has started taking a very different approach to portraying women...

Rather than the usual coquettishly-posed, minimally-clad examples of male lust, he's discovered a different appreciation of the female form.

Posting on Facebook, he expressed his gratitude to doctors and nurses, ambulance drivers and techs, policewomen, delivery workers and others who perform essential services during the pandemic.

In terms of style, it's still recognizably his work, but now has a far different focus.

Check out his FaceBook gallery HERE.

BONUS: There's a "motion comics" version of this superb illustration...

...HERE!

And now a word for charity...

Lockdown Heroes

...is a work of art and, at the same time, a result of civil commitment and a testimony of a historical moment.

Lockdown Heroes is a portfolio that collects all the illustrations mentioned above, as high-quality prints on fine paper, with Manara's signature on a dry stamp, inside a folder contained, in turn, in a case.

Plus: a dossier written by Italian pop culture expert Vincenzo Mollica, plus an interview with Milo Manara.

A charitable donation from the sale of each copy of Lockdown Heroes will support the Luigi Sacco Hospital in Milan, the University Hospital of Padua and the Domenico Cotugno Hospital in Naples.

Click HERE to Order!