(PROGRAMME thousand words. 3 NOVEMBER 2009)
Just recently, for my birthday a friend gave me a comic book, which is the adaptation of three stories by Edgar Allan Poe. This is The Black Cat, The Cask of Amontillado and Manuscript in a Bottle. Aside from being grateful for this gift, I recalled that during a great period of my life the horror comic was my favorite genre. In large part because it was an adult gender could escape Parental possible.
The spate of terror that has invaded us these days to Halloween to talk about several journals that formed the nucleus of terror in Spain. Creepy I mean, Rufus, Vampus, Vampirella and Black Dossier. I take this occasion, opportunistically, because looking old comic magazines that I keep, I rediscovered a genius who almost forgot, this is Berni Wrightson.
Creepy
(creepy) was the name of the magazine, but also the character, medium body, medium zombie, which appeared on the cover and, as a host, we would introduce in the stories that differs. Here in Spain it was known as Uncle Rufus or Uncle Creepy, and was more sympathetic than terrifying. 
During that time he got what he achieved only genius, tell me that out of his work, there was nothing interesting, nothing worth reading. His works, many of them adaptations of works by EA Poe, HP Lovecraft, and, later, Stephen King, or taking arguments of works of B horror films were shocking for a very elaborate script for short stories, an atmosphere and a breathtaking setting and a very clean design, clear line, which contrasted with a dark stories.
All this fascination with the terror began in the movies. The 50 gave Roger Corman and his production company, American International Pictures, the opportunity to create a subgenre that escaped the Hays code. Together with British producer Hammer, and movies The Crow, The Mask of Red Death, The Pendulum , managed to impact a generation. In the silent comics had their mirror in the Warren Publishing, which started production autoconclusivas short stories 4 or 5 pages to be the final story booklet superhero or war stories from Marvel. This format was very successful since the mid-60, Warren began publishing Creepy , which lasted until the mid-80's.
Warren artists specialized in fantasy and terrifying. Many of the vampire myths of werewolves, ghosts, began here. Sources drank scary movies from the 40's and the Gothic novel, and soon resulted in stories that were introduced major concern at that time, UFOs, aliens, the atomic age, nuclear annihilation. Gradually this genre was transformed and series like Vampirella allowed show sexiest shades with very suggestive dresses heroines, vamps with a very strong sexuality, etc., This made the horror comic genre in a more adult and also moved to the cinema, where it already appeared not only the virginal victim but in which a very forced, like in the comics, they were naked, apropos of nothing.
came a time when the American artists that was not possible to keep pace Warren monthly publications, as Creepy, Eerie and Vampirella, weekly stories and other comic books. It was the landing of the English. The editor Joseph Toutain traveled to America to sell and promote the artists of his agency Illustrated Picks, the head of Warren met him in New York and was surprised at the good quality of work were shown and the price is so incredibly Deals of the American market.
The effects were curious. There was a Hispanicized of Creepy and Vampirella became a English products made in the USA, the result almost exclusively Jose Ortiz and Esteban Maroto. Both the Americans wrote to the direction of Creepy protesting because Creepy was too English. On the other hand, Toutain, after years of consolidation of English authors, began the publication of the English Creepy in 1979 and was widely criticized for heavy reliance on material out of the Warren and his Americanization. However, for many English authors almost unknown here, the publication of these magazines are supposed to know in Spain, where they arrived and with the patina of winners come from the USA and they had some recognition editorial. Creepy
The English was sold as the first magazine of English horror genre. Although this was not true at all, Vampus, Rufus, Vampirella and Black Dossier were earlier, but were mere translations and reprints of American magazines. And, much earlier, in the 50's, Inspector Dan introduced the horror genre in English cartoon. What happened is that it introduced Toutain unpublished material in the U.S. and created expressly for this magazine. Mixed material from the Warren, with new authors and with classic, what, and yes indeed, the magazine became the first English, through the ranks, not in time.
Regardless of the American edition and English, appeared as the aforementioned authors Berni Wrightson, which highlight Fair Monster " strongly influenced by film" Freaks "Tod Browning , Richard Corben with stories that mix the fantasy genre, horror and suspense with its particular aesthetic, see for example " The Fall of the House of Usher " José M ª BEA Beroy ...
A memory attached itself to these comics. One story struck me in my childhood was "big picture" Bruce Jones. Featured in Black Dossier and I read it incomplete because he lacked the back. For several years I was without knowing the end, until in 1984 found it in a kiosk. I read the end and I'll never know if it was better not to have read and imagine for a lifetime.
During that time he got what he achieved only genius, tell me that out of his work, there was nothing interesting, nothing worth reading. His works, many of them adaptations of works by EA Poe, HP Lovecraft, and, later, Stephen King, or taking arguments of works of B horror films were shocking for a very elaborate script for short stories, an atmosphere and a breathtaking setting and a very clean design, clear line, which contrasted with a dark stories.
All this fascination with the terror began in the movies. The 50 gave Roger Corman and his production company, American International Pictures, the opportunity to create a subgenre that escaped the Hays code. Together with British producer Hammer, and movies The Crow, The Mask of Red Death, The Pendulum , managed to impact a generation. In the silent comics had their mirror in the Warren Publishing, which started production autoconclusivas short stories 4 or 5 pages to be the final story booklet superhero or war stories from Marvel. This format was very successful since the mid-60, Warren began publishing Creepy , which lasted until the mid-80's.
Warren artists specialized in fantasy and terrifying. Many of the vampire myths of werewolves, ghosts, began here. Sources drank scary movies from the 40's and the Gothic novel, and soon resulted in stories that were introduced major concern at that time, UFOs, aliens, the atomic age, nuclear annihilation. Gradually this genre was transformed and series like Vampirella allowed show sexiest shades with very suggestive dresses heroines, vamps with a very strong sexuality, etc., This made the horror comic genre in a more adult and also moved to the cinema, where it already appeared not only the virginal victim but in which a very forced, like in the comics, they were naked, apropos of nothing.
came a time when the American artists that was not possible to keep pace Warren monthly publications, as Creepy, Eerie and Vampirella, weekly stories and other comic books. It was the landing of the English. The editor Joseph Toutain traveled to America to sell and promote the artists of his agency Illustrated Picks, the head of Warren met him in New York and was surprised at the good quality of work were shown and the price is so incredibly Deals of the American market.
The effects were curious. There was a Hispanicized of Creepy and Vampirella became a English products made in the USA, the result almost exclusively Jose Ortiz and Esteban Maroto. Both the Americans wrote to the direction of Creepy protesting because Creepy was too English. On the other hand, Toutain, after years of consolidation of English authors, began the publication of the English Creepy in 1979 and was widely criticized for heavy reliance on material out of the Warren and his Americanization. However, for many English authors almost unknown here, the publication of these magazines are supposed to know in Spain, where they arrived and with the patina of winners come from the USA and they had some recognition editorial. Creepy
The English was sold as the first magazine of English horror genre. Although this was not true at all, Vampus, Rufus, Vampirella and Black Dossier were earlier, but were mere translations and reprints of American magazines. And, much earlier, in the 50's, Inspector Dan introduced the horror genre in English cartoon. What happened is that it introduced Toutain unpublished material in the U.S. and created expressly for this magazine. Mixed material from the Warren, with new authors and with classic, what, and yes indeed, the magazine became the first English, through the ranks, not in time.
Regardless of the American edition and English, appeared as the aforementioned authors Berni Wrightson, which highlight Fair Monster " strongly influenced by film" Freaks "Tod Browning , Richard Corben with stories that mix the fantasy genre, horror and suspense with its particular aesthetic, see for example " The Fall of the House of Usher " José M ª BEA Beroy ...
A memory attached itself to these comics. One story struck me in my childhood was "big picture" Bruce Jones. Featured in Black Dossier and I read it incomplete because he lacked the back. For several years I was without knowing the end, until in 1984 found it in a kiosk. I read the end and I'll never know if it was better not to have read and imagine for a lifetime.
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