{"id":16486,"date":"2015-03-06T02:30:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T01:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=16486"},"modified":"2015-03-06T02:30:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T01:30:40","slug":"saga-de-xam-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/03\/06\/saga-de-xam-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Saga de Xam revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Back in December I was thrilled to discover that Nicolas Devil’s large-format psychedelic\/erotic comic book, Saga de Xam<\/em>, had been scanned and uploaded to Scribd<\/a>. The book was published by \u00c9ric Losfeld in 1967 in an edition of 5000 which quickly sold out, and has remained out of print ever since. Losfeld died in 1979 but it was always his intention that the book would remain scarce (although a second edition did appear after his death) with the result that copies today command high prices.<\/p>\n

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Six of the seven chapters had been uploaded to Scribd in December but the seventh and final episode of the time-travelling Saga’s adventures was frustratingly absent. So I’m pleased to report that the final chapter<\/a> is now available for reading or downloading, prompted in part by the interest my earlier post generated. The seventh chapter sees Saga arrive in the present day (ie: 1967) where she encounters more human conflict in the form of the US military and marauding Hells Angels. The chapter ends with several Exquisite Corpse pages which had Philippe Druillet among their contributors; it was the appearance of three of these pages in the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay\u2019s Art Nouveau Revival<\/em><\/a> catalogue in 2010 that first brought the book to my attention. The very end of the book has a key to the alphabets used on some of the pages. I’d love to see Fantagraphics reprint this volume in a translated edition but those alphabets would create some difficulties. For the moment the PDFs at Scribd are the only place you can read this unique publication.<\/p>\n

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Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Philippe Caza covers<\/a>
\n\u2022 Saga de Xam by Nicolas Devil<\/a>
\n\u2022 L\u2019Amour by Didier Moreau<\/a>
\n\u2022 Gilles Rimbault redux<\/a>
\n\u2022 Raymond Bertrand paintings<\/a>
\n\u2022 Raymond Bertrand\u2019s science fiction covers<\/a>
\n\u2022 Gilles Rimbault revisited<\/a>
\n\u2022 Druillet\u2019s vampires<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Art Nouveau dance goes on forever<\/a>
\n\u2022 The art of Ran Akiyoshi, 1922\u20131982<\/a>
\n\u2022 The art of Gilles Rimbault<\/a>
\n\u2022 The art of Jim Leon, 1938\u20132002<\/a>
\n\u2022 The art of Bertrand<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in December I was thrilled to discover that Nicolas Devil’s large-format psychedelic\/erotic comic book, Saga de Xam, had been scanned and uploaded to Scribd. The book was published by \u00c9ric Losfeld in 1967 in an edition of 5000 which quickly sold out, and has remained out of print ever since. Losfeld died in 1979 … Continue reading “Saga de Xam revisited”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,9,17,18],"tags":[4011,1544,1657,4086,863,1083,7073],"class_list":["post-16486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-comics","category-psychedelia","category-surrealism","tag-eric-losfeld","tag-gilles-rimbault","tag-nicolas-devil","tag-philippe-caza","tag-philippe-druillet","tag-raymond-bertrand","tag-saga-de-xam"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4hU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}