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Lord Horror #7
Hard Core Horror 5 ScriptDavid Britton ArtJohn Coulthart CoverCoulthart 1990 A Savoy Parallax Production 60pp ISBN 0 86130 084 X |
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'Art, like the God of the Jews, thrives on holocausts...And after each letting of the blood the flesh will weigh less.' Gustave Flaubert, The Temptation Of St. Anthony The end of the line: more full page drawings present the malevolent architecture of the Death Camps in finely-detailed character. A landmark portrait of human evil, intended as a contemporary equivalent of Piranesi's 'Prisons'. Coulthart spent a year producing these 26 drawings only to be told by a magistrate that they had no artistic value. Fit subject for a comic book? Savoy thinks readers should be given the chance to make up their own minds. Also contains a supplement of truly harrowing photographs. Also includes text story by David Britton: Jewlung • See the Orders page for purchase details. |
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One of the intentions of the Hard Core Horror series was to show the British comics world how a really adult
comic could look, at a time when numerous wretches were hyping
their environmentally aware, politically correct trash-for-teenagers
as the new 'adult comics' (Crisis, Revolver, Blast, et al). This comic, more than any other, is the response.
A cold and sombre continuation of the death camp scenes from the previous issue, this sees John Coulthart's first substantial work for Savoy bring the series to a fitting, unavoidably nightmarish, and very moral, conclusion. The placing of an empty white panel on each picture is deliberate, not a printer's error as some have assumed. Each page becomes a testament to a place that words have lost their power to adequately describe.
John Coulthart, interviewed in |
"A genuinely stomach-wrenching overkill of atrocity ramming the sheer inadequacy of words into the face of racial holocaust and the real horrors of fascist evil... Indie comics publishing has seldom come on so strong or stood so naked." |
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