Along with the usual suspects, a few mainstream movies with exploitative themes are mixed in here for good measure. The "Let's Make a Dirty Movie" poster art is by Robert McGinnis. No explanations are needed for the rest.
EXTRA! PAM GRIER GALLERY
Born on May 26, 1949, Pamela Suzette Grier, "The Queen of Blaxploitation", is still-great looking at 76-years-old. If you're wondering where she gets those gook looks, according to Miss Grier herself, she is part Black, Hispanic, Chinese, Filipino and Cheyenne! Some of her films include COFFY (see poster above), FOXY BROWN, SCREAM BLACULA SCREAM and FRIDAY FOSTER (a film adaptation of the comic strip).
Her cousin is Rosey Grier, ex-football defensive tackle and one-time member of the Los Angeles Rams' "Fearsome Foursome". After retiring, he became a body guard and is famous for subduing Sirhan Sirhan after Robert Kennedy, Jr was shot.
FRIDAY FOSTER SUNDAY STRIPS (1970)
Scripted by Jim Lawrence and drawn by Jorge Longarón, the FRIDAY FOSTER comic strip was syndicated by the CHICAGO TRIBUNE and ran from January 18, 1970 to February 17, 1974. Lawrence had previously written the James Bond newspaper strip for the London DAILY EXPRESS. Frank Springer contributed uncredited work when Longarón's art didn't arrive in time from his studio in Spain to make the deadline.
Foster was the first syndicated newspaper comic strip featuring a Black woman as the title character. Previously, TORCHY BROWN appeared in the African-American newspaper, the PITTSBURGH COURIER, but it had a limited circulation.
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| Torchy Brown by Jackie Ormes. |
Friday Foster returned to the newspapers in 2019 when she guest-starred in the DICK TRACY comic strip.
Pam Grier starred in the title role in the 1975 AIP blaxploitation feature film, FRIDAY FOSTER, with Yaphet Kotto, Carl Weathers, Ted Lange and Godfrey Cambridge.
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| Pam Grier as Friday Foster. |
Dell Comics published one issue of FRIDAY FOSTER with a cover date of October 1972, with a script by Joe Gill and Jack Sparling.
Couple of cartoon/comics related tidbits for today's post:
ReplyDelete"My Birthday Suit", a song from Jennie, Wife/Child, was repurposed the following year as a musical number for Hanna-Barbera's Saturday morning animated series Cattanooga Cats (!)
The artwork for the Turned-On Girl poster looks to be heavily "influenced" from Robert Crumb--The electrified font is quite similar to one used on the "Cheap Thrills" album cover, and the umbilical cord plug looks to be appropriated from the cover of "Zap Comix" #0.
Yes, it's remarkably similar to Crumb's work on those two projects. Amazing that a tune from a racy "Lolita"-type story was used in a H-B cartoon!
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