Zora (vampire)

Zora (Italian: Zora la Vampira) is an Italian comic book erotic character from the 1970s. Zora la Vampira ("Zora the vampiress") is one of many such characters from the Italian fumetti tradition. Other figures from the same era, and with similarly violent or erotic preoccupations, include Maghella, Lucifera, Biancaneve, Vartan, Jacula, Sukia, Jolanda de Almaviva, and Yra.[1][2]

The cover to Golden Lady #2.

History

The first comic book was published in 1972.[3][4] Zora la vampira was published from 1972 to 1985 and featured a blond female protagonist who, on some covers, resembles French actress Catherine Deneuve. The series was published by Edifumetto. The cartoonists were Renzo Barbieri and Giuseppe Pederiali as writers and Birago Balzano as artist.[1][5] Together with the original series, stories of Zora were published also in the comic magazines Orror, I Notturni and Fasma.[1] The series was also published with some success in France, where new stories were produced even after the closing of the series in Italy.[1] A new 13 episodes miniseries of Zora, renamed as "Lady Vampyre", was published in 2001; cartoonists were Paolo Puccini and Daniele Statella.[1]

Plot

The character's real name is Zora Pabst: she is shown to be an aristocrat of the 19th century, possessed by the spirit of Dracula so that she became a servant to her lust and blood-lust. Her adventures are a mixture of horror, eroticism, and pornography.[1]

Legacy

A movie inspired by the character, also named Zora la Vampira, was released in 2000, directed by the Manetti Brothers.[6]

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References
  1. Gianni Bono. Guida al fumetto italiano. Epierre, 2003.
  2. Castaldi, Simone (2010). Drawn and Dangerous: Italian Comics of the 1970s and 1980s. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 18. ISBN 1604737778.
  3. "Zora la Vampira". www.comicvine.com.
  4. "Zora la Vampira: Vampires vs. Mummies". groovyageofhorror.blogspot.com.
  5. "Birago Balzano". Lambiek Comiclopedia.
  6. Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.
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