Heavy Metal (Magazine)

[Flurry]

I kinda thought this would fit really well here. Have any of you heard of this magazine? Which has also spawned two animated films.

Heavy Metal is an American science fiction and fantasy comics magazine, known primarily for its blend of dark fantasy/science fiction and erotica. In the mid-1970s, while publisher Leonard Mogel was in Paris to jump-start the French edition of National Lampoon, he discovered the French science-fantasy magazine Métal Hurlant which had debuted December 1974. The French title translates literally as Howling Metal.



When Mogel licensed the American version, he chose to rename it, and Heavy Metal began in the U.S. on April, 1977 as a glossy, full-color monthly. Initially, it displayed translations of graphic stories originally published in Métal Hurlant, including work by Enki Bilal, Philippe Caza, Guido Crepax, Philippe Druillet, Jean-Claude Forest, Jean Giraud (aka Moebius) and Milo Manara. The magazine later ran Stefano Tamburini and Tanino Liberatore's ultra-violent RanXerox. Since the color pages had already been shot in France, the budget to reproduce them in the U.S. version was greatly reduced.

To read more, click here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_Metal_Magazine

 

[DrLeftover]

I remember the stink it made when it came out with its sexy cartoons and themes.



All the shouting from people like Jerry Falwell did was to sell more magazines.

 

[Flurry]

Good job shouting!

 

[DrLeftover]

Oh yes.



Worked wonders for Styx as well



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BwQZLBYGVU

 

[Flurry]

Always a good thing!



*Unless you're being sarcastic.*