MAYHEM in MAINE Mort Todd Charity Art Prints

Mort Todd grew up in Maine, America's Official Spooky State, and skedaddled down to New York right after Yarmouth High School graduation. Before long he was working in comics, film and animation. Now Mort is returning to Vacationland for two events, the Maine Comic Arts Festival and the First Friday Art Walk, and has created two new Maine-related hero and monster pieces. These signed & numbered prints are accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Wounded Warrior Project.

"PANIC IN PORTLAND" shows a panoply of powerful comic book heroes battling a gaggle of super-gangsters in front of the Time & Temperature Building on Congress Street (the veritable "Empire State Building" of Portland). Mort has worked on comics featuring some of the superheroes, including Superman and Spider-Man.

'MONSTERS MENACE MAINE" features a trio of titanic terrors in turmoil on Casco Bay before the landmark Portland Headlight. A certain giant radioactive lizard visits Maine to fight some local sea creatures; an overgrown lobster and octopus. Mort has had a long connection with monsters. As a kid, his name first appeared in print in the seminal Famous Monsters and he has created such magazines as Monsters Attack!, along with Monster Menace and Curse of the Weird for Marvel Comics.

After a long career in comics, film and animation, Mort started his own media company, Comicfix, in 2000. The company publishes comic books, produces animation and creates music videos and film projects. One of his titles, Sadistik, The Diabolikal Super-Kriminal, is being developed as an animated series with singer Iggy Pop providing the voice of the main character. While visiting Maine, Mort has created art and ad campaigns for WMPG and Nosh Kitchen Bar. He is also in pre-production on a crime drama series that would be produced and shot in Portland.

Since March, Mort has been splitting his time between New York and Maine and is looking forward to attending the 3rd Annual Maine Comic Arts Festival at the Ocean Gateway on Portland's waterfront on Sunday, May 22. Then, on June 3, Mort and his work will be exhibited at the First Friday Art Walk at the Nosh Kitchen Bar, 551 Congress Street. Mort will be selling the above prints at these events along with signed copies of his comics, original art and screen his film The Diabolikal Super-Kriminal.

"Panic in Portland" and "Monsters Menace Maine" prints are also available though mail order. They are signed and numbered by Mort, on a 100lb glossy cardstock and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. Each print is $15 (including shipping & handling), shipped in a sturdy mailing tube, or $25 for both. $2 of each print will be donated to the Wounded Warrior Project.

To purchase "Panic Over Portland" click here.

To Purchase "Monsters Menace Maine" click here.

To purchase both "Panic Over Portland" and "Monsters Menace Maine" click here.

For more about the events:

Maine Comics Art Festival
First Friday Art Walk

To see more of Mort's work, including comics, animation & video:

Comicfix Website
Mort Todd on facebook
Mort Todd Animation & Videos on YouTube

Mort directs new music video for Peter Bagge's band

Can you imagine a band naming themselves CAN YOU IMAGINE? You don't have to! Beloved alternative cartoonist and his musical compadres have chosen this moniker for the latest in melodical mayhem. CYI is composed of Peter Bagge on guitar, Michelle Plaitis: Lead Vocals, Rachel Frost: Bass, Susan Merrill: Drums and Steve Fisk: Keyboards. Steve also produced their first album, which includes the song "Drive." Pete's old pal, cartoonist Mort Todd directed the music video for "Drive." The video also features some artwork by Mr. Bagge.

Peter and Mort met as teens in old New York City at its punkiest, when Pete was doing Comical Funnies and Mort was drawing Psycho Comics and the Back from the Grave album covers. A few years later, when Mort became Editor-in-Chief of Cracked, he hired Peter to do writing and layouts for the magazine, just as the latter was beginning his Neat Stuff comics for Fantagraphics. The comic evolved into a title called Hate and Mort later worked on an animated pilot of it for MTV.

The weekend of April 8th is a big one for Peter. Besides the release of this new video he will be attending the MoCCA Comics Fest in Manhattan, have a signing at a signing at the Desert Island comic shop in Brooklyn. Also coming out is a new issue of the Hate Annual, a collection of his DC comic Yeah and even a book collection of his Batboy strips for the Weekly World News!

Peter Bagge, Daniel Clowes and Mort Todd being merrily ferried to the Cracked 30th Anniversary Party at the fabled Tunnel nightclub in NYC

An evening with Mort Todd on April 1st; No Foolin'!

CARTOON LIMBO presents

MORT TODD
An Evening with a Real
COMIC CHARACTER!

Writer, Cartoonist, Filmmaker
MORT TODD
Discusses the HUMOR & HORROR
of His Career in Comics

As Editor of
CRACKED
America's Second Favorite Humor Magaine
And Comics Including
MONSTERS ATTACK!, WEIRD MENACE, CURSE OF THE WEIRD, BOOK OF THE DEAD and More!

Also Working with Such Comics Legends as STEVE DITKO, ALEX TOTH, JOHN SEVERIN, DON MARTIN, DANIEL CLOWES and PETER BAGGE

And the MARVEL MUSIC line collaborating on comics with KISS, AC/DC, ALICE COOPER and the Estates of BOB MARLEY & ELVIS PRESLEY

Plus His Other Work in Comics, Music & Film including THE DIABOLIKAL SUPER-KRIMINAL Documentary Film about 'Dark' Italian Comics and His New Animated Series SADISTIK: STRIP & KILL Starring IGGY POP!

Time
Friday, April 1st · 6:00pm

Location
New Hope Arts Center
2 Stockton Ave
New Hope, PA

Have a beverage, have a laugh, have a dance, and be in awe as you find your way in and out of Cartoon Limbo.
Admission $10, free to New Hope Arts members

Created By
Lewis Matheney

For complete info, visit www.lewismatheney.com
facebook.com/cartoonlimbo

See more of Mort's work at www.comicfix.com and www.facebook.com/morttodd

IGGY POP is SADISTIK! Diabolikal Super-Kriminal Unmasked as Rock Legend!

Comicfix is very excited to announce that Iggy Pop, the wildest man in rock 'n' roll history, is set to portray the voice of Sadistik, the Diabolikal Super-Kriminal in a new animated series, Sadistik: Strip & Kill, directed by Mort Todd. While the details are still being worked out, there is no one more suitable in the world to bring the legendary King of Crime from the comic pages to animated life!

Iggy Pop has earned millions of fans from his amazing talent as singer, songwriter and actor and brings his immeasurable raw power to the role of Sadistik. His seminal band Iggy and the Stooges, inspired hundreds of thousands of punk and hard rock bands and his songs, including Lust for Life, Real Wild Child and China Girl are recognized classics.

The Sadistik photo novels have sold innumerable copies worldwide in many languages and has a large cult following, due in part to some offbeat 1960s action films from Turkey. Since 2005, Comicfix has been releasing the Sadistik comics in English for the first time.

Mort Todd has had a long career in comics, film, TV, animation and music production working with such companies as Marvel Comics, MTV and Playboy. In 2007 he produced the critically acclaimed documentary about Sadistik called The Diabolikal Super-Kriminal. Mort's company Comicfix produces music videos, animation and publishes comics.

Sadistik: Strip & Kill will be an animated 7-part mini-series created for the web and is loosely based on the 1966 photo novel and 1967 Turkish film of the same name. In it, Sadistik, along with his statuesque companion Dana, attempts to steal a top secret formula, battling gangsters and spies also after the formula, all the while trying to keep a step ahead of the authorities.

Other musicians have already recorded parts for the series including Matt Verta-Ray of the band Heavy Trash, British songstress Gemma Ray and Charles E. Hall, who recorded the song Beware: Sadistik for The Diabolikal Super-Kriminal film. Bands are also contributing to the soundtrack with the first video, They Call Him Sadistik by Psycho Charger, already released. Many other surprises are to be announced concerning other well-known personalities providing voices for the series.

Mort's 1st Photo Comic... with Liv Tyler!

Mort Todd, writer of the SADISTIK photo novels, has been professionally involved in comics since he was a teenager, and became Editor-in-Chief of Cracked Magazine at 23. He quickly turned the title from a fifth-rate Mad imitation to a third-rate one.

Almost 20 years before he started publishing SADISTIK, the premier photo comic, Mort dabbled in the medium at Cracked. Nanny Dickering was a long-running strip in the magazine, most notably drawn by the legendary King of Pin-Ups, cartoonist Bill Ward. Nanny would do satiric interviews with the "Kings" of various industries (from skateboards to hamburgers, along with celebrities) and Mort got it in his head to create a photo comic based on the feature.

A medly of Nanny Dickering poses as illustrated by Bill Ward, The King of the Pin Ups!

Who better to portray Nanny than an actual former Playboy Playmate? Model and musician Bebe Buell was essayed to play the role of the voluptuous Cracked interviewer and Mort himself played the role of the "Rock Video King." The photos were shot by Kevin McMahon, a talented TV director and producer who went on to produce TV series for such icons as Howard Stern, Jackie Mason and Geraldo Rivera (he was there when Geraldo got his nose busted)!

The cover to Cracked Collectors' Edition #69 featuring the photo comic with Mort Todd (as the Rock Video King) and Bebe Buell as Nanny Dickering.

One of the characters was portrayed by musician Charles E. Hall, who went on to record the revered "Beware: Sadistik!" theme song used in The Diabolikal Super-Kriminal film about the King of Crime. The song is also used for the Kickstarter Sadistik animation video that just premiered.

Most interestingly, the photo comic also showcased the media premiere of future blockbuster movie star Liv Tyler! Long before Lord of the Rings and other memorable feature films, Bebe's daughter Liv made her debut in a cameo as a secretary in a Cracked magazine photo comic!

A 9 year old Liv Tyler makes her acting debut in... Cracked Magazine?!

The photo comic appeared in Cracked Collectors' Edition #69 and is perhaps one of the only issue of Cracked Collectors' Edition to live up to its title! All involved in the Cracked production have gone on to greater things and made their mark on the entertainment world. Mort is currently releasing the SADISTIK photo novels and neck-deep in the production of the SADISTIK animated series. He has worked with many celebrities in the past and is drawing many of them together today to create voices for the project.

Soon, the earth-shattering announcement of the revered pop legend selected to do the voice of SADISTIK will be revealed and it will rock your world! Watch the video and see if you can guess who it is! And after you watch it, why not pledge a sum from $1 and up to the production and receive a Diabolikal Reward? You can get items from comics to T-Shirts, DVDs and original art from the series for your participation! Check it out at Kickstarter now!

Support the SADISTIK Strip & Kill Animated Series and get Rewarded!

As many may know, Mort Todd has been developing a wild animated series based on SADISTIK, the Diabolikal Super Kriminal! Now production has begun and YOU can be involved and get rewarded!

Working with Kickstarter, Mort's company Comicfix is raising funds and if you pledge as little as $1, you get something out of it; from copies of the screenplay, comics, DVDs and original art to Executive Producer credit! Payments are handled through Amazon, so even though you're dealing with a Super-Kriminal, you know it's super legit!

Watch the animation teaser and Mort Todd's discussion of the series at Kickstarter and donate if you can. If you can't, tell your millionaire friends about it!

Perhaps most exciting is the personality who has agreed to portray the voice of Sadistik... In the weeks to come his identity will be revealed, but for now we can say it is an internationally known pop star that has the necessary raw power to play the role!

Make your pledge now!

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.

A DIABOLIKAL FILM WEEKEND!

Screening 1960s Crime Comic Book Killers in Live Action Thrillers!

In answer to many in America and around the world who have been clamoring to see the sensational documentary THE DIABOLIKAL SUPER-KRIMINAL, their dark prayers have been answered! DSK, along with a few other rare films from the Euro Super-Kriminal genre will be screened on the web the week before Halloween!

Mark Friday, October 22 & Sunday October 24 on your kalendar and bookmark www.justin.tv/wolfcat7 on your web browser to see the fun and fearful films based on the 'dark' Italian comic books of the 1960s. The festivities last from 8 PM Eastern Standard Time and run late, late into the night! The screening also includes live chat, interaction with film and comics fans and useless trivia as the films are moderated by Mort Todd (Sadistik writer and producer of the DSK film).

The movies of mayhem include:

DANGER: DIABOLIK! (1968): In psychedelic swinging 60s, the killer Diabolik (John Phillip Law) and his gorgeous accomplice Eva (Marisa Mell) wreak havoc as they go on an outlandish crime spree!. Also featuring Adolfo (Thunderball) Celi as the villainous Valmont. Beautiful direction by the master Mario Bava and stirring soundtrack by Ennio Morricone.

Danger: Diabolik Movie Trailer narrated by Telly Savalas

KRIMINAL (1966): True to its noir comic roots, Kriminal (Glenn Saxson) dresses like a skeleton to steal diamond with suave style. Full of double crosses and excitement typical of the espionage films of the day. Colorfully directed by horror helmer Umberto Lenzi.

Animated opening sequence for Kriminal

SATANIK (1968): A withered old hag turns into a beautiful young woman (Magda Konopka) after drinking a youth formula and goes on a murder spree! Notorious for her striptease sequence in a costume inspired by Diabolik! Directed by Piero Vivarelli.

Diabolik-inspired Striptease from Satanik

KILINK: STRIP & KILL (1967): One of 13 amazing films produced in Turkey and based on the SADISTIK photo comics. Kilink battles 2 rival gangs and manages to turn one against the other. All of them are after a precious microfilm and a big foreign treasure. Directed by Yilmaz Atadeniz. This title is also being developed as a SADISTIK animated series.

Various Clips from Kilink: Strip & Kill!

THE DIABOLIKAL SUPER-KRIMINAL (2007): Worldwide Web Premiere! A documentary on the controversial 1960s Italian photo novels known as KILLING, aka SATANIK in France and SADISTIK in America. Includes interviews with the original actors who were familiar faces from sword & sandal, spy, sci-fi, spaghetti westerns, and splatter films from the 1960s and 70s. Directed by SS-Sunda.

Movie Trailer for The Diabolikal Super-Kriminal

These are just some of the freaky films to be shown, along with other thrilling movie, trailers, music videos and other weirdness! October is HALLOWEEN HORROR MONSTERTHON time at www.justin.tv/wolfcat7 with rare and strange films will be shown all month... but don't you dare miss the DIABOLIKAL FILM WEEKEND October 22 & 24!

WEIRD MENACE First Edition Still on Sale!

Due to Comicfix address and website changes, the first edition of Mort Todd's Weird Menace #1 will soon be pulled from sale. Ultimately, a second edition (possibly at a higher cover price!) will be released. To get the original collectors' edition, see below and order now before it's too late!

"If Ed Wood, Basil Wolverton, and Rob Zombie were somehow on a cross
country roadtrip together, Mort Todd would be the lucky bastard of a
hitchhiker they’d WANT to pick up."

from Richard Caldwell's Review of Weird Menace

Mort Todd's WEIRD MENACE!

Written and Illustrated by Mort Todd with Gray Morrow, Cliff Mott and John Severin

Ten wild tales of Weird Menace by Mort Todd! Zombies! Vampires! Demons! Psycho Santa! Rock & Roll and MORE! Bonus origin tale of the Rock Zombies from Mort's Back from the Grave CD covers! All stories written and drawn by Mort with the help of comics legends Gray Morrow, Cliff Mott and John Severin.








Plus an article on Mort's horror comics career featuring such luminaries as Dan Clowes, Steve Ditko, Adam West, Bill Gaines, Speed Racer, Tura Satana and other cult heroes, lavishly illustrated with pictures and photos.








Mort Todd ... His very name means dread terror! Long-time comics writer and artist, editor of Cracked magazine and at Marvel Comics, and creator of the legendary horror magazine Monsters Attack! Under those disciplines he has worked with creators ranging from Steve Ditko, John Severin and Alex Toth to Neil Gaiman, Dan Clowes and Peter Bagge. Outside of comics Mort is an animator, actor, music video director, film and music producer. Standard Black & White Comic, 48 pages, $4.99

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Mr. KRIME Komic on the LOOSE in French & English

Amidst the historical turmoil of May, 1968, a sinister figure rose to exploit the pandemonium of the student riots and strikes of Paris. Mr KRIME had a grand scheme to take control of the French government and spread his power throughout the continent and ultimately the world! How his plot was thwarted is still a mystery... Just as his animatronic servants were about to strike, they malfunctioned and Mr KRIME disappeared off the face of the Earth! Now, learning from the mistakes of his father, the son of KRIME has adopted the original's name and quest for world domination, aided by an army of technologically advanced humanitrons in the guise of world leaders and masters of media.

Durant le tumulte de mai 1968, une sinistre figure s'est levée afin de tirer avantage du Pandémonium des émeutes étudiantes et des grèves parisiennes. M KRIME avait fomenté un plan *diabolique* afin de prendre le contrôle du Gouvernement Français pour ensuite s'en prendre à l'Europe, puis au monde entier! La manière dont ce plan fut contrecarré est encore un mystère... En effet, juste au moment où ses serviteurs animatroniques étaient prêts à frapper, ils tombèrent en panne... Et M KRIME disparut de la surface du globe! Fort des enseignements nés des erreurs de son père, le fils de KRIME a repris le flambeau de celui-ci. Le nouveau Krime entreprend de devenir le maître du monde à l'aide de son armée d'humanitrons, à la technologie avancée et ayant l'apparence des leaders mondiaux ainsi que celle des dirigeants des médias.

Flip Book in French & English! In dark contrast to America, Europe has a rich tradition of the super-villain as protagonist in popular culture. Beginning with Fantômas in France, an army of anti-heroes from the Phantom of the Opera and Dr. Mabuse to Diabolik and Sadistik, paraded around Europe in pulp, novels, film and comics. Following in those shadowy footsteps rises the spectre of Mr KRIME, the King of Chaos!

Les Etats Unis ont développé le mythe du super héros...L'Europe celui du super-vilain! De Fantômas, au fantôme de l’opéra, en passant par le monstre de Frankenstein, du docteur Mabuse ou encore Diabolik et Sadistik les super-vilains ont paradé à travers le vieux continent dans les romans de gare, les films, les bandes dessinées et même le roman-photo. Poursuivant cette sombre lignée, voici que surgit le spectre de M. KRIME, le roi du chaos!

Standard Color Comic, 12 pages, $4.99

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First Edition Still Available... For Now!

SADISTIK 1: Monster with a 1000 Masks!

With changes in store for SADISTIK and publisher Comicfix, the first editions of these cult classic photo novels will soon be out of print. As the old Sadistik website is folded into the Comicfix website and with address changes, the original print run will no longer be available and replaced with a new second edition. Scroll to the bottom of this page to download a FREE 14 page PDF preview of SADISTIK: Monster with a 1000 Masks by Mort Todd!

Featuring the SADISTIK photo novel: MONSTER WITH A 1000 MASKS!
The first recorded criminal exploit of the King of Crime, SADISTIK! A decadent Prince visiting America has a hidden treasure and is targeted by the Imperceptible One… but he has to do it while juggling the Police, murderous vixens and Soviet Agents!

Includes articles and odd facts about the Man of a 1000 Masks, his creators and the actors, luridly illustrated!

BEWARE: SADISTIK!
A Top Secret Dossier on the evolution of the European Super Criminals, photo novels and the creation of SADISTIK!

LUCIANA PAOLI PICTORIAL
The only woman able to handle the passion of SADISTIK; DANA as portrayed by actress Luciana Paoli. Rare vintage pin ups plus article and complete filmography.

MURDER AT THE MARDI GRAS
You solve the crime in this weird piece of picto-fiction from the original 1966 issue.

190 page Photo Graphic Novel $9.99

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The SECRET SOCIETY is on its way!

MORT TODD has just completed packaging the epic first issue of an astounding new comic series about the mysterious adventures of THE SECRET SOCIETY! The comic is based on the phenomenally successful on-line exploits of the squad of metaphysical marvels created by BRADLEY MASON HAMLIN that have also been released as pulp novelettes.

Featured characters include Lucy Hell, Devilgirl (the subject of a popular one-shot comic by Mort and Bradley released last year), Eddie Crossbones, El Secreto, Hourglass, Dr. Atlantis and other startling personalities!

Plans are under way to develop the series with a major publisher and talks are being held to develop the characters for film, animation and other projects. See more about the Secret Society at Bradley's pop culture website www.mysteryisland.net.

The Ground Zero Mosque

Many people around the world are debating the merits of a mosque being built at the site of the Burlington Coat Factory on Park Place in lower Manhattan. Originally reported as the "Ground Zero Mosque" in the press, the Associated Press has released a communique to their reporters to not refer it as such. Now the media calls it the Mosque near Ground Zero, or in more unoffensive terms, and proponents of it even say that, being two whole blocks from the World Trade Center, it is nowhere near Ground Zero.

I have contributed an article to the Big Peace site illustrated by several photos of the surrounding neighborhood on September 11. 2001 and it sure looks like a Ground Zero war zone to me. Words matter and the politically correct are trying to defuse the controversy by divorcing the site from any connection to Ground Zero.

There is no doubt Iman Feisal Abdul Rauf (who originally referred to the building as "the Ground Zero Mosque") and his backers have a right to build the mosque there but it is not a Constitutional issue unless the government gets involved and says they can not build there. Putting it at the location is just in poor taste and they should move it without being forced to by some new law which would create a dangerous precedent. The mosque was first called Cordoba House and then renamed the more innocent Park51. You have to ask how is the name Cordoba significant to Islam? It refers to the invasion and conquering of Cordoba, Spain by the Muslims, where mosques were built over churches and synagogues to signify Islam's dominance over Judaism and Christianity.

I saw the World Trade Towers fall with my own eyes and knew I was watching the death of thousands of people instantly. What I didn't know was that my cousin, who was on Flight 11, the first plane to hit the towers, was already murdered. The horror of having been on that plane is unimaginable. Clouds of human dust covered most of Manhattan and surrounding areas making it a virtual graveyard.

Again, there should be no law preventing the building of a mosque there, but it is extremely insensitive of the developers and an affront to the events of September 11. If the plan was to improve relations between the Muslim faith and the West as they claim, they have failed miserably. And those in the media avoiding the term Ground Zero Mosque are not fooling the majority of informed people. If built it will be a Ground Zero mosque and could also be another in a long line of Victory mosques.

Sick New SADISTIK Music Video by PSYCHO CHARGER!

The wildest band in the world PSYCHO CHARGER has just released a new CD called MARK OF THE PSYCHO and one of the tracks is about your favorite international Diabolikal Super-Kriminal entitled "They Call Him SADISTIK!" Without further ado, here is the video:

The tune was recorded for the upcoming animated series SADISTIK: STRIP & KILL!

More about PSYCHO CHARGER and the MARK OF THE PSYCHO CD at
www.PSYCHOCHARGER.com

SADISTIK updates at
http://www.myspace.com/gosadistik
and more videos at
http://www.youtube.com/GoSadistik

R.I.P. Rasta Artist Tennyson Smith

One of my favorite artists, and a true friend, Tennyson Smith, recently passed away. He was a fantastic oil painter, but that medium also may have led to his death by leukemia at a much too young age. Perhaps not well known by comic fans, he was the only Rastafari artist to work at Marvel Comics.

A great pleasure in my life was to produce the Bob Marley biography Tale of the Tuff Gong as Editor-in-Chief of the Marvel Music line. We worked closely with the Marley family and estate through Bob's Tuff Gong Records Art Director Neville Garrick, who had painted some of Bob's album covers. I chose veteran Marvel artist Gene Colan (Iron Man, Daredevil, Tomb of Dracula) to pencil the series because of his cinematic layouts, but we wanted the finishes to be true to Bob's Jamaican and Rasta roots.

Neville introduced me to Tennyson, or Jimmy as he was also known, and he was the perfect artist to do the completed art. He did full oil painting over Gene's layouts and gave them a superb look that only a native Jamaican could bring to the project.

We spent a lot of time together and Tennyson gave the books a true Rasta perspective and opened my mind to an intense philosophy. Due to Marvel's distribution ineptitude (the graphic novels were only shipped to comic shops and not record or book stores as intended) only the first two books, Iron and Lion, were released and the final chapter Zion was completed but never released. Ever since then I have been working with the Marley estate to get the three graphic novels packaged as one trade paperback... so far with no luck.

Tennyson painted the three covers himself (plus a cover for the planned paperback edition) along with an incredible 10 page supplement that was a history of Jamaica and the Rastafari. Hopefully this reverent comic will again see print and enjoy the wide audience it truly deserves.

While at Marvel I also commissioned Jimmy to paint some covers for some horror titles. He did some wild covers featuring the muck-encrusted Man Thing and the Zombie from the classic Bill Everett comic.

After I left Marvel, I worked with Tennyson as much as possible and helped him sell some artwork including pieces from a series of African warrior paintings.

Recently I used Jimmy as a voice artist for an animated series about Sadistik, The Diabolikal Super-Kriminal. Jimmy played a character named Vex, who helps the King of Crime procure weapons and gets involved in other shenanigans. His character was inspired by the Rasta 'suffarahs' who faced persecution in the 1960s when the series is set.

Over the last six months of his life he kept painting, though he had switched from oils to watercolor. I miss Jimmy an awful lot and the world is really missing out on a uniquely awesome talent and his potential. I hope we can get the Marley book back in print to serve as a permanent testimony to his amazing skills.

I know with Jah as his guide he is in a place where Bob is able to express his thanks and praise for Tennyson's contribution to the understanding of the Rasta.

R.I.P. Tennyson--- RASTAFARI!

----Mort Todd

Sadistik Doc Film Now on DVD with Satanik!

The outrageous documentary THE DIABOLIKAL SUPER-KRIMINAL, produced by Mort Todd, has been released on DVD in Italy packaged with the cult film classic SATANIK!

Just released on the Cinekult series from CG Home Video, this double DVD set stars two of Italy's wildest super-criminals in wild action! THE DIABOLIKAL SUPER-KRIMINAL is directed by SS-Sunda and covers the controversial history of the Sadistik photo comics, interviewing the actors from the series along with filmmakers, comic book creators and cultural critics on the impact of the King of Crime!

Satanik (1968) is based on the Bunker/Magnus comic about a withered old hag who turns into a beautiful young woman after drinking a formula... beautiful but evil! The film, directed by Piero Vivarelli is infamous for the Diabolik-inspired strip tease performed by star Magda Konopka.

Extras include interviews with Piero Vivarelli, Lamberto Bava, Corrado Farina, Moreno Burattini, Luigi Corteggi, Maurizio Colombo, trailers, international poster gallery (including art by Mort) and the "Beware: Sadistik!" Music Video in high resolution. The DVDs are in PAL format and in Italian without English subtitles but this is the only way to see the film until an English NTSC DVD deal is negotiated and released.

The DVD set is available through many distributors at assorted prices, but here is ordering information from Bloodbuster (and here is the page in broken English).

Mort Todd Film at Reggae Film Festival in Spain

Among many other things, Mort Todd is also an "actor." He played the title character in the short film THE PIANO TUNER, directed by the musician Sugarcane. Because of its reggae soundtrack (based on the theme from Kurosawa's Seven Samurai) it has become a fixture of the Reggae Film Festival and is screening internationally.

The next screening will be at the 17th Rototom Sunsplash festival in Benicàssim on the Sunsplash beach (Playa dels Terres, nearby Escuela di Vela) in Spain on Thursday, August 26th. Besides the film festival there are tons of bands along with meetings on reggae music and Rasta culture, photo & art exhibitions and lots more. Here is a list of all the films playing there.

If you can't make it to Spain, here's the next best thing: the actual film itself!

The Piano Tuner

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I am DR. DEATH

The Comics Comics blog recently asked the comical question "Who is Dr. Death?" Well, as it was soon discovered the answer was Mort Todd.

The photo has been reposted all over the web and is a portrait of Mort Todd, Dan Clowes and Rick Altergott as the teen punk cartoonists pimp the first issue of Psycho Comics at a 1980s comic convention. It comes from the aptly-titled magazine Amazing Heroes #2 and shot by Mike Catron.

Here's the post that led to this viral phenomenon.

I Walked with a Zombie Video by Mort Todd

Mort Todd has just directed a controversial music video of a holiday version of Roky (13th Floor Elevators) Erickson's "I Walked with a Zombie" as performed by Mile Edison and the Space Liberation Army.



Besides being a musician, Edison has also been editor of such stalwart publications as High Times and Screw and has an autobiography out entitled "I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World."

See more about Edison at www.mikeedison.com

See more of Mort's videos and animation at http://youtube.com/gosadistik