Savage Bitch - Steve Carter & Antoinette Rydyr

  

New in Te Pikitia Store:

At long last, the notorious cult comic-strip from Picture magazine by the controversial fan-favourite Aussie comicbook and horror legends S.C.A.R. (Steve Carter and Antoinette Rydyr) has been collected into a prestigious 104 page full-colour graphic novel for the first time ever.

Not to mention a wonderful and entertaining foreword by the legendary Stephen R. Bissette (Swamp Thing, Tyrant, Taboo), American artist, editor and publisher of the horror genre; and special guest spot by celebrated Aussie creator and artist Dave Heinrich (The Phantom: Ghost Who Walks).

Savage Bitch was originally published in serialised form in Picture magazine by Australian Consolidated Press (ACP) between 1995 and 1997, as a 'Jungle Girls' adventure like no other; controversial, challenging and bizarre!

Savage Bitch is an excellent showcase of all of the elements that S.C.A.R. are famous for: feisty amazons, fascinating alien worlds and freakish monsters. Not for the easily offended or faint-hearted...

This vibrant and colourful presentation contains two complete thrilling adventures along with stunning new art and pin-ups.

Land of the Buku Buku (45 pages): On becoming a warrioress Savage Bitch embarks on her first adventure with a small hunting party into an unknown region where they encounter a brutal tribe of subhuman amazons.

The Fury of Blood Bitch (47 pages): After being cast out of their clan during a violent dispute, Savage Bitch and five tribeswomen are forced to fend for themselves in a hostile wilderness full of monstrous predators."

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WW1 100 years ago today: New Zealand Cartoons

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K.M. Ballantyne illustrates the commencement of World War One for the front page of The Freelance.

William Blomfield illustrates the front page of The New Zealand Observer and the ensuing conflict in Europe. William Blomfield was lead cartoonist and a co-owner of The New Zealand Observer which resulted in it being one of the most cartoon laden papers of the time. Blomfield also served as the Mayor of Takapuna during the war years.

Lucky Aki in the New Stone Age - Barry Linton

Pikitia Press are proud to present Barry Linton’s Lucky Aki in The New Stone Age.

 Lucky Aki in the New Stone Age is the first volume in a series chronicling teenage explorer Lucky Aki’s adventures through the islands and cultures of a re-imagined past.


From Barry Linton’s afterword:
"What if there was a time, now out of mind, when there were many more islands of all sizes, and few or no continents, with busy island groups, trading, fishing, herding, farming and lots of seasonal voyaging, eh?"

"A youth might dream of a life sailing the myriad island trade ways, exploring the unknown fertile shores, and a youth might get lucky, then as now."

To The I-Land - The Comics of Barry Linton by Dylan Horrocks

Barry Linton bio by Dylan Horrocks
Barry Linton has been drawing comics since the early 1970s and was a key figure in the influential New Zealand comics anthology Strips. His comics and drawings have been published in books, magazines and literary journals and on posters and album covers.

Barry’s early comics detail the lives and loves of a group of characters living in a familiar South Pacific city, with plenty of music, sex, politics and drugs. Over the years his characters wrestled with broken relationships, parenthood, criminal gangs and crooked lawyers. In one story the cartoonist Spud is kidnapped and chained to a drawing board, forced to churn out pornographic comics by his gun-toting captors. In recent years Barry has worked on a series of graphic novels set in a fictionalised neolithic Oceania, Lucky Aki, and comics exploring ancient history, UFOs and the future of humanity.

AVAILABLE FROM THE PIKITIA PRESS STORE NOW.