 The cover of the first issue of the Eclipse Comics title. Art by Enrique Romero. AXA is the title of a newspaper comic strip, and the name of the lead character thereof, which was published in British daily tabloid The Sun from 1978 to 1986. It was written by Donne Avenell and drawn by Enrique Badia Romero. Image File history File linksMetadata Axa1. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Axa1. ...
Eclipse Comics was an American comic book publisher, one of several influential indendent publishers during the 1980s. ...
This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ...
The Sun is a tabloid daily newspaper published in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland with the highest circulation of any daily English-language newspaper in the world, standing at 3,154,881 copies daily in early 2006 [1], (compared to USA Today, the best-selling US newspaper...
1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ...
1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Enrique Badia Romero (who signs his work simply Romero) is a Spanish comic strip artist, best known to English-speaking audiences for his work on Modesty Blaise. ...
History
Commissioned by The Sun in 1978, the series was designed as a daily three-panel adventure strip. Opening on a post-apocalyptic Earth in the year 2070, Axa is a woman who, having grown sick of the regimented and stifling society inside a domed city, flees into the untamed wilderness. The strip mixed elements of science fiction and sword-swinging barbarian tales (the lead character herself bears more than a casual similarity to Red Sonja). However, it is arguable that the strip's main draw were the frequent depictions of the gorgeous and full-figured Axa's tendency to wind up topless or fully nude, as rendered by the skilled pin-up artist Romero. This tendency was set as early as the series' third installment in which, in a denuding act of defiance, Axa violently tears off her jumpsuit to show her rejection of the domed city's ways. She immediately went on to replace her attire with a reliably flimsy rag bikini, which would become the character's signature outfit throughout the remainder of the series. The strip proved highly popular but the Sun suddenly cancelled the strip midway through a story in 1986. Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ...
Red Sonja as drawn by Esteban Maroto and Neal Adams for her first solo story in The Savage Sword of Conan #1. ...
A pin-up girl is a woman whose physical attractiveness would entice one to place a picture of her on a wall. ...
Romero went on to draw Modesty Blaise, but also took Axa to the American company Eclipse Comics, who published a two issue series of all-new adventures, though this time with much less nudity and Chuck Dixon as writer. Cover of the first Modesty Blaise novel. ...
Eclipse Comics was an American comic book publisher, one of several influential indendent publishers during the 1980s. ...
Chuck Dixon is an American comic book writer, perhaps best-known for long runs on Batman titles in the 1990s. ...
Another comic book version of Axa was later produced for the Swedish comic book "Magnum".
All the strips in The Sun have been reprinted in trade paperback format. A film version of the strip was announced in 2005. A trade paperback can refer to any book that is bound with a heavy paper cover that is generally cheaper than the hardcover but more expensive than the regular paperback version. ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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