The short story in b&w at 7:18, "Mondovision", was drawn by Enki Bilal, a French artist, and imho not just a Jean Giraud/Moebius knock-off. His work has a lot of texture, using materials like pastels to add a grittiness to the art, and design-wise does have its own distinct, very recognizable, style. Check out his work, likes "The Black Order Brigade", "The Hunting Party", and "The Carnival of Immortals" (which was turned into a movie).
I definitely have to check him out because I really did like the art work from those pages even though it reminded me a bit of moebius. Thanks for letting me know I appreciate it.
Kevin Eastman of TMNT fame bought Heavy Metal in the early 90s and married Julie Strain as well. Julie strain was in Andy Sidaris movie's hence why it was in this issue promoting them. Eastman even was in a few.
You can't call it gratitutious and softcore at the time. I got into HM in the 90s. So I don't have a sense of HM's "glory days" because I was born in the same year it came out. I was into comic books, but I was too young for it.
@@Madbandit77 Yes you can. I just did. I considered it softcore because you saw no penetration, although the artists Serepi and Minera came as close as one could. Howerver, the sex was there in the story and it was often not necessary to the plot of many stories. That's what made it gratuitous.
@@sdaniels160 It's Serpieri and Manara. Please get their names right. Also, softcore erotica doesn't involve coitus. Hardcore erotica does. That's why the adjective, gratitutious, is associated with the adjective hardcore. To associate gratitutious with softcore is like trying to tie a rope around the moon without expecting any ramifications, and imposing puritanical standards ("not necessary to the plot of many stories") on erotica doesn't help. Heavy Metal Magazine always had nudity.
@@Madbandit77 Softcore erotic stories can involve sex. It can happen in the story even though it is not shown in a hardcore manner. Softcore sex is still sex. Characters in Serpieri and Manara's stories (Thanks for the correction.) often have sexual intercourse, though full penetration is not shown. It still happened, even though the reader didn't get to see it. I call it gratuitous when it is not necessary to the plot of the story. Gratuitous definition: "uncalled for; lacking good reason; unwarranted." I'm saying the coitus in many Heavy Metal stories (1) happened in the story, (2) was unnecessary to the story (gratuitous), and (3) was depicted in a sorftcore manner in a way where penetratioon is not showm. I'm using the word gratuitous correctly. Intercourse can be unnecessary to the story AND softcore in its depiction. Both can be true at the same time. If you don't understand that then we do not agree on the meaning of gratuitous.
I read the full run of Heavy Metal, up to 1982, when I was in high school. Very little do I remember and even less do I remember liking: Den, Changes (favorite line: Paranoia grips the bitch!), Heilman, Rock Opera. It had to be filtered through a distinctly American creative lens for it to resonate with me (or a convincing ameri- con job by the Europeans).
@@rowleyzero I bought a bunch of them waaay back I think it was Heavy Metal And a mag called comix that was sort of the hype back in the 80s. Personally I don't recall they having those adds you showed. But never really cared all that much for the stories. Most of them were just great art work,but not really interesting read. One or tow might have stuck out. Don't recall what happened to them.I I eiter have them somewhere in my basement,or I threw em away.Or gave em to a flea marked
@@rowleyzero They didn't do it for me Each to their own though. The arts work was great.I wish more comix was made with that quality. But it would probably send the price through the roof.
@@johnnyguitar6639 it’s very rare that you read a comic where the art is superb and the story is entertaining and engaging, it is sort of the downfall of the medium which is sad however there are books that do both, and when that happens they’re life changing.
I had never heard of it or seen it before, this is why I love heavy metal so much! The art in that comic is just… beautiful! Thank you for letting me know who the artist was, if it did say it in the comic which I’m sure it did I missed it. Thanks for the comment!
I switched from MAD to Heavy Metal in the mid-90s when I was 12 or 13 ( I can't imagine why...) but I did order stuff out of the ads. Mainly I ordered Fantagraphics stuff but I didn't push it too far into porn territory lest my parents realize what I was reading.
That "so called" mobius ripoff is Enki Bilal who is an absolute genius! If you like colour his work will blow you away! If you can do your self a favour and get "The Nikopol Trilogy" Titan comic's did a really nice hardback edition a while back.
@@rowleyzero He worked on Metal Hurlant* so he probably would be a contemporary of mobius and thus I imagine there's some cross polination going on if I was to make a comparison I'd say Bilal is more consistent while mobius is more out there. I love both of there works personally I think as a comic book artist Bilal is better because of his consistency but mobius is a true visionary in a way Bilal is not. *For those who don't know Metal Hurlant is the European pre genitor to Heavy Metal and most of the earlier HM's are reprints of MH.
I have every issue of HM from January 1995 to the end of 2008. They included a lot of great artist that I learned how to draw from like Caza, Bisley and Frazzeto...
Heavy Metal wasn't a "comic book", you read it for the overall atmospheric experience.
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The short story in b&w at 7:18, "Mondovision", was drawn by Enki Bilal, a French artist, and imho not just a Jean Giraud/Moebius knock-off. His work has a lot of texture, using materials like pastels to add a grittiness to the art, and design-wise does have its own distinct, very recognizable, style.
Check out his work, likes "The Black Order Brigade", "The Hunting Party", and "The Carnival of Immortals" (which was turned into a movie).
I definitely have to check him out because I really did like the art work from those pages even though it reminded me a bit of moebius. Thanks for letting me know I appreciate it.
thanks for the video. very fun to watch. I am enjoying the artwork. helps i have a large screen tv.
The magazine Epic Illustrated in the early 80's was really cool.
@@bryandaniel2856 I agree I don’t have any of them sadly, but they look so freaking cool.
Kevin Eastman of TMNT fame bought Heavy Metal in the early 90s and married Julie Strain as well. Julie strain was in Andy Sidaris movie's hence why it was in this issue promoting them. Eastman even was in a few.
@@Old_82 ahh okay that makes more sense.
Julie Strain in the 90's 👍
Heavy Metal started as pure illustrated science fiction. I was hooked as a kid. Then it degenerated into gratuitous softcore porn.
@@sdaniels160 sad really, I’m not sure why heavy metal sort of fizzled out. I guess greatness can’t last forever :(.
You can't call it gratitutious and softcore at the time. I got into HM in the 90s. So I don't have a sense of HM's "glory days" because I was born in the same year it came out. I was into comic books, but I was too young for it.
@@Madbandit77 Yes you can. I just did. I considered it softcore because you saw no penetration, although the artists Serepi and Minera came as close as one could. Howerver, the sex was there in the story and it was often not necessary to the plot of many stories. That's what made it gratuitous.
@@sdaniels160 It's Serpieri and Manara. Please get their names right. Also, softcore erotica doesn't involve coitus. Hardcore erotica does. That's why the adjective, gratitutious, is associated with the adjective hardcore. To associate gratitutious with softcore is like trying to tie a rope around the moon without expecting any ramifications, and imposing puritanical standards ("not necessary to the plot of many stories") on erotica doesn't help. Heavy Metal Magazine always had nudity.
@@Madbandit77 Softcore erotic stories can involve sex. It can happen in the story even though it is not shown in a hardcore manner. Softcore sex is still sex. Characters in Serpieri and Manara's stories (Thanks for the correction.) often have sexual intercourse, though full penetration is not shown. It still happened, even though the reader didn't get to see it. I call it gratuitous when it is not necessary to the plot of the story. Gratuitous definition: "uncalled for; lacking good reason; unwarranted." I'm saying the coitus in many Heavy Metal stories (1) happened in the story, (2) was unnecessary to the story (gratuitous), and (3) was depicted in a sorftcore manner in a way where penetratioon is not showm. I'm using the word gratuitous correctly. Intercourse can be unnecessary to the story AND softcore in its depiction. Both can be true at the same time. If you don't understand that then we do not agree on the meaning of gratuitous.
I remember reading heavy metal mags in the late 70s and 80s.
@@tonyfonseca2480 must have been mind blowing seeing these on the shelves.
I read the full run of Heavy Metal, up to 1982, when I was in high school. Very little do I remember and even less do I remember liking: Den, Changes (favorite line: Paranoia grips the bitch!), Heilman, Rock Opera. It had to be filtered through a distinctly American creative lens for it to resonate with me (or a convincing ameri- con job by the Europeans).
love Heavy Metal
@@JTheTeach SAME! A true shame that it no longer exists.
I think I still have some of those magazines.
@@johnnyguitar6639 they’re very fun to look at. I absolutely adore heavy metal magazine.
@@rowleyzero I bought a bunch of them waaay back I think it was Heavy Metal And a mag called comix that was sort of the hype back in the 80s.
Personally I don't recall they having those adds you showed. But never really cared all that much for the stories. Most of them were just great art work,but not really interesting read. One or tow might have stuck out. Don't recall what happened to them.I I eiter have them somewhere in my basement,or I threw em away.Or gave em to a flea marked
@@rowleyzero They didn't do it for me Each to their own though.
The arts work was great.I wish more comix was made with that quality. But it would probably send the price through
the roof.
@@johnnyguitar6639 it’s very rare that you read a comic where the art is superb and the story is entertaining and engaging, it is sort of the downfall of the medium which is sad however there are books that do both, and when that happens they’re life changing.
The story after Ranx is Gipsy by Enrico Marini. It ran through a lot of the 90s issues.
I had never heard of it or seen it before, this is why I love heavy metal so much! The art in that comic is just… beautiful! Thank you for letting me know who the artist was, if it did say it in the comic which I’m sure it did I missed it.
Thanks for the comment!
I switched from MAD to Heavy Metal in the mid-90s when I was 12 or 13 ( I can't imagine why...) but I did order stuff out of the ads. Mainly I ordered Fantagraphics stuff but I didn't push it too far into porn territory lest my parents realize what I was reading.
That "so called" mobius ripoff is
Enki Bilal who is an absolute genius!
If you like colour his work will blow you away!
If you can do your self a favour and get "The Nikopol Trilogy" Titan comic's did a really nice hardback edition a while back.
I’m definitely going to check him out. Perhaps I was too quick to refer to him as a moebius ripoff.
@@rowleyzero
He worked on Metal Hurlant* so he probably would be a contemporary of mobius and thus I imagine there's some cross polination going on if I was to make a comparison I'd say Bilal is more consistent while mobius is more out there.
I love both of there works personally I think as a comic book artist Bilal is better because of his consistency but mobius is a true visionary in a way Bilal is not.
*For those who don't know Metal Hurlant is the European pre genitor to Heavy Metal and most of the earlier HM's are reprints of MH.
I grew up in the 80s & 90s and started buying HM in probably '95. It was a real mixed bag, but there was always a gem in every issue that I picked up.
@@allenrobinson9890 hell yeah! I jealous of very few people, but those who got to experience these in real time, I’m extremely jealous of them lol.
I had this issue, I collected them in the 90's I always liked the European stuff better than the superhero nonsense.
I agree with you on that one. Superhero stuff just doesn’t compare.
I have every issue of HM from January 1995 to the end of 2008. They included a lot of great artist that I learned how to draw from like Caza, Bisley and Frazzeto...
The model in the thumbnail: Wendy Whoppers.
@@TheKitchenerLeslie indeed
@@rowleyzero I figured someone might ask someday. She retired like 30 years ago and had those things removed.
@@TheKitchenerLeslie I was always wondering what she was up to these days. Lol
@@rowleyzero We all do, and Mom thanks you for it.
May 1996 - Heavy Metal Magazine "Shadowslayer" still have.. it,, great art work..
Anything and everything by Daniel Torres. Also, the Jimenez story Leo Roa
Dammit! Well, at least I didn't miss it.
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