Jean-Claude Forest Archives

And for March that means two brand new comics from Barbarella creator Jean-Claude Forest. Barbarella first appeared in the French magazine V, in 1962 and ran for a couple of years before being reprinted in a hardcover graphic novel by publisher Eric Losfeld in 1964 It gained international fame as a movie in 1968 starring Jane Fonda,[...]

Barbarella, the sexy science fiction heroine created by Jean Claude Forest in 1962, will return in all new comics and more in 2017 from Dynamite

Cue me freaking out with delight, but still managing to restrain myself from spending all the money in the world on books I've heard about for years but had limited access to. The comic I ended up pouncing on was the new translation of Jean-Claude Forest's Barbarella, adapted by Kelly Sue DeConnick. I've seen the movie, but[...]