Mort Todd French book cover with Fantômas & Barbarella in a Rock Band

Publisher Camion Blanc has released a new book by Jean-Emmanuel DeLuxe called Cinepop, about the mixture of pop music and film in France. The cover is by Mort Todd and features French film icons Barbarella, Marianne Faithful, Fantômas and Louis DeFunes.

The book is subtitled the "Dictionary of Pop & Rock in Film" and described thusly:

"Cinépop est le premier dictionnaire de la pop et du rock au cinéma ! L’ouvrage aborde tout un pan méconnu et vital de la culture : quand le rock se frotte à la caméra. Là où le cinéma fait : Zip-she-bang ! Pow ! Blop ! Whizz ! Mais mieux qu’un dictionnaire, Cinépop est un essai subjectif et parfois de mauvaise foi sur les liens entre pop musique, rock et cinéma. Un voyage aux frontières des séries (B, C, Z) qui donne une furieuse envie de redécouvrir acteurs, actrices, réalisateurs, compositeurs, films, genres… Une chance à ne pas rater… pour qui aime encore la musique et le cinéma et leurs faces obscures."

The book is available here.

Jean-Emmanuel DeLuxe also interviewed Mort for the French comic Strange #12 about Mort's work in comics, film and music.

Strange has a long history of reprinting Marvel Comics reprints in French and currently publishes comics starring creator-owned characters created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Joe Simon. This issue had a wicked Kirby cover of his Thunderfoot creation. See more at the Organic Comix website and order here.

SADISTIK against the Kosmonauts!

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Here's a new SADISTIK pin-up by Mort Todd that will appear on the back cover of the next issue of the Italian sci-fi comic, INNER SPACE. The title "Terrore nello Spazio" (Terror in Space) was the original title of Mario Bava's Planet of the Vampires and follows the tradition of original Sadistik photo novel titles based on films.

"Дьявольский Преступник Высшего качества" is a translation of Diabolikal Super-Kriminal, which in Russian becomes "The Devil Criminal of the First-Rate Quality!"

Click here to see about Inner Space #1 and an exhibit featuring the art in Italy.