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.

Mort Todd's WEIRD MENACE #1 Rockin' Horror Comic!

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.

Now Mort Todd's WEIRD MENACE collects his most obscure and strange horror comics into one psychotic comic!

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.

And check out the weirdly menacing T-Shirts and other creepy products HERE!