Cool Pop Art "Pravda" animation

In 1967 artist Guy Peellaert (later responsible for David Bowie's Diamond Dogs album cover, It's Only Rock and Roll for the Rolling Stones, and the classic coffee table book Rock Dreams, published one of the very first Pop Art comics, The Adventures of Jodelle.

It's really amazing and you can find copies on the Internet ranging from $14 to $300. I have a copy and it's one of my prized possessions. You can see what it looks like here and here. A year later Peellaert put out Pravda another sexy comic creation modeled this time after gorgeous French yé-yé singer Francoise Hardy. Copies of Pravda are hard to come by and costly. Pravda posters can sell for over $500 on Ebay. The other day I found this super cool Pravda animation that Peelaert did in 2001 featuring a soundtrack by The Rolling Stones, Missy Elliot and Joy Division.

(Richard Metzger is guest blogger.)

[#1 posted by xiaosquared , October 15, 2008 12:08 AM]

awesome.
and there was a reference to the odessa step sequence!

[#2 posted by stuckinkiel , October 15, 2008 12:46 AM]

Here's a translation of the German text:

Pravda, the super sensual, the super vital, Pravda, the super new comic is here! For only 18 (Deutsch) Marks.

I'm not sure if "vitale" has better translation than vital, maybe it was some cool `60s slang?

[#3 posted by Anonymous , October 15, 2008 8:10 AM]

This psychedelic movement in art is pretty awesome. It reminds me a bit of one of my favourite artists- Guido Crepax who made art work inspired by Brigitte Bardot.

- Irisa