MAX' 60s COMIX COLLECTORS PAGE

About Me

JUST GETTING STARTED...

Collecting books in general is an interesting hobby, but I think that for collecting books (especially comic books) from a certain period only (the Sixties), well, that's another thing altogether. If you are into 60s culture (music, clothes, clubs, etc), if you're either a mod or a beat-psych fan and you're just crazy about it, then you're probably there already.

In this blog of mine I'll try to explain as much as I know about comix (and books) of the Sixties, providing a source of infos for both the dedicated fan and the occasional web surfer.

Most of the times I'll refer to my own collection, as I believe that you can better talk about a book if you actually read it. Collecting 60s books can be an expensive hobby as well, so I'll try to get infos about book prices, bargains and how to get some rare item.

As someone would probably agree, it's all about being passionate.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

How I made my profile:
I edited my profile using the best Myspace editor EVER.

Movies:

Animated short film
by PETER MAX, 1968 !!!
From BRUNO BOZZETTO's 1968 film:
"Vip, my brother superman"

From Ralph Bakshi's 1972 film "FRITZ THE CAT"!!!

LA LINEA by Osvaldo Cavandoli, episode 1
Late 60s-early 70s!!!

Heroes:

SAGA DE XAM, VALENTINA, JODELLE, VAMPIRELLA, DIABOLIK, PRAVDA, PHOEBE ZEIT-GEIST, BARBARELLA, SCARTH, LA LINEA, BLANCHE EPIPHANIE, LONE SLOANE, SATANIK, JEFF HAWKE, ZORA THE VAMPIRE GIRL, PAULETTE, TIFFANY JONES, ALIKA, PETER MAX, NICOLAS DEVIL, BOB PEAK, GUIDO CREPAX, ESTEBAN MAROTO, MARCO ROSTAGNO, LUIS ROCA, JUAN ZANOTTO, ROBERT CRUMB, SHELTON & SHERIDAN, ENRIC SIO'...too many to mention!!!

My Blog

...AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: SCARTH.

The latter half of the 60s has undoubtely been a period of great innovations, not only in costumes, fashion and music, but also in comics. The year is 1969. The place is London, where pop cu...
Posted by MAX' 60s COMIX COLLECTORS PAGE on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 02:55:00 PST

TIFFANY JONES, A BAD GIRL...!?

Here we are again, folks! TIFFANY JONES... er... Well, despite being born around 1965, this comic strip - created by british gals Jenny Butterworth & Pat Tourret - ain't enough groundbreakin...
Posted by MAX' 60s COMIX COLLECTORS PAGE on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 05:44:00 PST

MORE ABOUT BARBARELLA.

Here we are, folks! Barbarella strikes again. I'm talking about the very late edition, the italian one. I'd start with saying that - despite growing popularity of the space heroine during the early 60...
Posted by MAX' 60s COMIX COLLECTORS PAGE on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:57:00 PST

THE BARBARELLA AFFAIR (or: how difficult to get the first french edition!)

Personally, I've been after the first edition ever of "Barbarella" for about 5 years. What can I say about this book? What's the big mistery about it? Barbarella , by Jean-Claude Forest, firstly appea...
Posted by MAX' 60s COMIX COLLECTORS PAGE on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 12:06:00 PST

A FEW TIPS FOR ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS.

A FEW TIPS FOR ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS. Starting a collection of 60s books can be an easy move as much as a very complicated one. Here are few questions you should ask yourself before you get started. - Us...
Posted by MAX' 60s COMIX COLLECTORS PAGE on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 06:21:00 PST

60s COMIX: A BRIEF HISTORY - part three.

At the end of 1967, psychedelia was spreading everywhere. A young french artist called Nicolas Devil created the first psychedelic comic book ever: Saga De Xam. It's the story of planet Xam, a peacefu...
Posted by MAX' 60s COMIX COLLECTORS PAGE on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:40:00 PST

60s COMIX: A BRIEF HISTORY - part two.

In Italy, two sisters with a great passion for Hitchcock movies and classic thrilling stories, Angela and Luciana Giussani, created Diabolik "the king of terror", a fascinating criminal with Robert Ta...
Posted by MAX' 60s COMIX COLLECTORS PAGE on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 02:50:00 PST

60s COMIX: A BRIEF HISTORY - part one

1962 was an interesting year. Obviously I'm not talking about wines. 1962 was the time when comics broke the cage and came out from children's world, straight into grown-ups one "The amazing...
Posted by MAX' 60s COMIX COLLECTORS PAGE on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:17:00 PST