Sukia
Sukia è un fumetto italiano di genere nero-erotico, ideato da Nicola del Principe e pubblicato dalla Edifumetto dal 1977 al 1986, per un totale di 153 albi.
Il personaggio principale, la vampira Sukia, è analogo a tanti altri del fumetto italiano degli anni settanta, da Jacula, a Zora la vampira a Lucifera.
Capelli lunghi corvini, l'aspetto, soprattutto nelle copertine più curate, opera dell'illustratore Emanuele Taglietti, si ispira palesemente all'attrice Ornella Muti, sex symbol dell'epoca.
La serie fu pubblicata in Italia, Germania, Francia e in America latina, dove, stampata in Colombia, fu distribuita per tutto il Sudamerica. La versione latinoamericana può essere trovata anche in Nordamerica.
Il fumetto ha dato anche il nome ad una band californiana.
Il personaggio principale, la vampira Sukia, è analogo a tanti altri del fumetto italiano degli anni settanta, da Jacula, a Zora la vampira a Lucifera.
Capelli lunghi corvini, l'aspetto, soprattutto nelle copertine più curate, opera dell'illustratore Emanuele Taglietti, si ispira palesemente all'attrice Ornella Muti, sex symbol dell'epoca.
La serie fu pubblicata in Italia, Germania, Francia e in America latina, dove, stampata in Colombia, fu distribuita per tutto il Sudamerica. La versione latinoamericana può essere trovata anche in Nordamerica.
Il fumetto ha dato anche il nome ad una band californiana.
Trama
Sukia è una vampira, figlia di un feroce condottiero romeno del XIII secolo, il Conte Dracul Dragomic, ma conduce comunque una vita apparentemente normale.La sua svolta feroce e la sua vampirizzazione sono descritte accuratamente in un albo pubblicato del 1984.
Sukia è fidanzata con un giornalista di nome Alfred Bildiger, e durante un viaggio a New York, questi scopre casualmente la sua vera identità.
Per impedire che Bildiger lo possa rivelare al giornale presso il quale lavora, Sukia lo morde sul collo vampirizzandolo e sopprimendolo per decapitazione, secondo i dettami vampireschi.
Bill Thomas, amico e collega di Bildiger, testimone del macabro rito, inizia ad indagare su di lei pedinandola in lungo ed in largo.
Nel corso della serie Sukia viaggia in giro per il mondo, accompagnata dall' effeminato servo Gary, e incontra persone e creature malvagie.
Sukia è rappresentata come un'antieroina, poiché ne diviene volta per volta complice o nemica.
Personaggi principali
- Sukia Dragomic, figlia del conte Dracul, originario della Transilvania, che ha appreso da giovanissima la famigerata arte di impalare nemici e prigionieri - in accordo con la figura storica di Vlad Tepes - scampa alla violenza del padre uccidendolo, e, divenuta crudele, uccide anche sua sorella, dedicandosi poi ad ogni genere di sadismo, finché non viene murata viva, tanto che, nel 1724 viene rinvenuto il suo cadavere perfettamente conservato, che contaminato accidentalmente con del sangue, secondo la tradizione, la fa divenire vampira... Sukia vive attualmente a New York, e ha perduto la sua crudeltà, ma non la spietatezza, poiché spesso ha sete di sangue.
- Gary, suo giovane e fedele servitore. È omosessuale e libertino. Nel corso della serie il suo aspetto cambia drasticamente, da effeminato a virile e nerboruto.
- Bill Thomas, un giornalista determinato a svelare all'opinione pubblica la natura vampiresca di Sukia. È il principale antagonista di Sukia nella serie sebbene sia di nascosto innamorato di lei ed al contempo da lei odiato.
Sukia is a Vampiric antihero. This erotic character was created by Italian author Nicola del Principe. Her best friend and steadfast companion is a gay man named Gary, who tends to engage in his own erotic adventures at the same time as Sukia.
Sukia is a
vampiress who drinks blood but seems to have few of the classic vampiric
powers, except when it is convenient for the story. She was created by
Italian author Nicola del Principe, and physically based on Italian
actress Ornella Muti. Her best friend and most consistent companion is
Gary, a gay man who is as insatiable as Sukia, but who seems to regard
Sukia with the utmost priority.
Most of Sukia's adventures are satirical and relate to a trend at the time of publication, touching upon them as Sukia and Gary find intimacy -- very temporarily -- with whomever should take part in the stories. Despite numerous sexual flings, Sukia and Gary most often find that instead of anyone else, they have each other, something of an irony considering their incompatible sexual orientations and very sexual natures.
Sukia is pursued by a journalist who wishes to expose her true nature, although he rarely manages to present any real threat. This is one of the only recurring plots to persist throughout the series; most other stories resolve themselves within one or two issues, and characters do not recur.
After a point, the popularity of Gary made Sukia almost a guest-star in her own title, and by the time the series had ended, they had see-sawed to something of a rather uneven balance. Sukia's adventures ended abruptly, with the publisher closing and the copyright holder of the characters within completely and utterly unknown.
Sukia is especially important for having presented Gary as a person and not just a caricature or a stereotype; in some ways he was stereotypical, but the series' long run gave great opportunity to develop him. At one point he was mentally deranged and became convinced he was heterosexual, and Sukia went to great lengths to restore his normal frame of mind. Gary was one of the earliest gay characters in any comics to receive such treatment, of being matter-of-factly accepted as his identity and being allowed, even encouraged, to be sexually active.
Sukia, too, went through a number of adventures both disturbing and horrific, yet at the end remained consistent with her identity at the start, though she had developed as a person along the way. Her series outlasted many of her contemporaries and was also more explicit but told a story.
Even though Sukia and Gary were not pure, upstanding figures, their close relationship and amusing interactions were pioneering as a heterosexual female and a homosexual male couple, presented in a straightforward manner that has scarcely been achieved since.
Most of Sukia's adventures are satirical and relate to a trend at the time of publication, touching upon them as Sukia and Gary find intimacy -- very temporarily -- with whomever should take part in the stories. Despite numerous sexual flings, Sukia and Gary most often find that instead of anyone else, they have each other, something of an irony considering their incompatible sexual orientations and very sexual natures.
Sukia is pursued by a journalist who wishes to expose her true nature, although he rarely manages to present any real threat. This is one of the only recurring plots to persist throughout the series; most other stories resolve themselves within one or two issues, and characters do not recur.
After a point, the popularity of Gary made Sukia almost a guest-star in her own title, and by the time the series had ended, they had see-sawed to something of a rather uneven balance. Sukia's adventures ended abruptly, with the publisher closing and the copyright holder of the characters within completely and utterly unknown.
Sukia is especially important for having presented Gary as a person and not just a caricature or a stereotype; in some ways he was stereotypical, but the series' long run gave great opportunity to develop him. At one point he was mentally deranged and became convinced he was heterosexual, and Sukia went to great lengths to restore his normal frame of mind. Gary was one of the earliest gay characters in any comics to receive such treatment, of being matter-of-factly accepted as his identity and being allowed, even encouraged, to be sexually active.
Sukia, too, went through a number of adventures both disturbing and horrific, yet at the end remained consistent with her identity at the start, though she had developed as a person along the way. Her series outlasted many of her contemporaries and was also more explicit but told a story.
Even though Sukia and Gary were not pure, upstanding figures, their close relationship and amusing interactions were pioneering as a heterosexual female and a homosexual male couple, presented in a straightforward manner that has scarcely been achieved since.
Sukia #1 - Vampira a New York released by Edifumetto on May 1, 1978.
Emanuele Taglietti 
Sukia #2 - Dollari & Sangue released by Edifumetto on June 15, 1978.
Sukia #3 - Zora, se ci Sei Batti un Colpo released by Edifumetto on June 29, 1978.
Sukia #4 - Conan l'Imbalsamatore released by Edifumetto
SUKIA # 5 - IL VAMPIRO DELLA SAUNA BLU' - 27 LUGLIO 1978 released by Edifumetto
Sukia #6 - L'ultima Erezione released by Edifumetto on August 1, 1978.
Sukia #7 - La Defunta Contessa Dragomic released by Edifumetto
Sukia #8 - Sangue e Orina released by Edifumetto
Sukia #9 - Come Risorge una Vampira released by Edifumetto
Sukia #10 - La Mano Recisa released by Edifumetto on October 1978.
Sukia #11 - Dramma D'amore released by Edifumetto
Sukia #12 - Gay è Bello released by Edifumetto
SUKIA N. 38 Tortura - Edifumetto
Sukia #39 - Gli Incubi di un Gay released by Edifumetto
SUKIA N. 40 La Campionessa - Edifumetto
SUKIA N. 41 all'Obitorio - Edifumetto 1979
Sukia #42 - Fecondata dal Diavolo! released by Edifumetto
Sukia #43 - Amore e Morso released by Edifumetto
Sukia #44 - Diabolico Incesto released by Edifumetto
Sukia #45 - I Transessuali released by Edifumetto
Sukia #46 - Un Film con Frankenstein released by Edifumetto
Sukia #47 - Il Mostro sulla Bambola di Gomma released by Edifumetto
Sukia #48 - Il Collezionista di Puzze released by Edifumetto on April 1980.
Sukia #49 - Sangue released by Edifumetto
Sukia #50 - L'Assassino dei Tenori released by Edifumetto
Sukia #51 - Incontri Ravvicinati del Terzo Sesso released by Edifumetto on May 1980.
Sukia #52 - L'Alieno released by Edifumetto
Sukia #53 - Il Giamaicano released by Edifumetto
Sukia #54 - L'Orco released by Edifumetto
Sukia #55 - Il Travestito e la Travestita released by Edifumetto
Sukia #56 - Il Mistero delle Catacombe released by Edifumetto
Sukia #57 - Nel Letto di Nerone released by Edifumetto
Sukia #58 - Il Vampiro di Milano released by Edifumetto
Sukia #59 - Caccia all'Indiano released by Edifumetto on 1980.
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