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PAGE 7 (Four panels)
Panel 1: Enzo in a suit, standing at the front door of an Italian cinema, proudly gesturing with his cane at a promotional placard which reads “Venite a vedere una bellissima ragazza dei tropici venir mangiata viva in un orribile rituale pagano!“
CAPTION – PSEUDO-NARRATION (1): The Scelleratini brothers had hoped, on their return to Italy, to make a small fortune exhibiting their remarkable footage to the public.
Translation (1): Die Brüder Scelleratini hatten gehofft, mit ihrem außergewöhnlichen Filmmaterial nach ihrer Rückkehr nach Italien ein Vermögen zu machen.
Panel 2: KING VICTOR EMMANUEL III sitting at an ornate desk in his royal study, signing a piece of paper.
CAPTION – PSEUDO-NARRATION (2): Unfortunately for them, their film was banned by an edict signed by King Victor Emmanuel III himself. The Lord Chancellor in England and the Chief Prefect of Police in France took similar actions.
Translation (2): Doch leider wurde ihr Film durch einen Beschluss des Königs Victor Emmanuel III. Persönlich verboten. Der Lordkanzler in England und der Polizeichef von Frankreich ergriffen ähnliche Maßnahmen.
CAPTION – PSEUDO-NARRATION (3): Both Scelleratini brothers would die in poverty.
Translation (3): Die Brüder Scelleratini starben schließlich in Armut.
Panel 3: BENITO MUSSOLINI, sitting in his private cinema, watching something. Mussolini’s face is illuminated by reflected light from the screen. He looks disgusted and outraged.
CAPTION – PSEUDO-NARRATION (4): In 1927, Italy’s Fascist Grand Council would declare the film a menace to public morality and order all copies of it destroyed.
Translation (4): Im Jahr 1927 ernannte der faschistische Große Rat von Italien den Film zu einer Gefahr für die Volksmoral und ordnete an, alle Kopien des Films zu vernichten.
CAPTION – PSEUDO-NARRATION (5): What the Scelleratini brothers documented would pass out of memory…
Translation (5): Das Dokument der Brüder Scelleratini geriet in Vergessenheit…
Panel 4: Exterior view of the Cineteca di Bologna (drawn or incorporated as a “comicked up” photograph).
CAPTION – PSEUDO-NARRATION (6): But at least one print of the film escaped the destruction order, and in 1977, a researcher found that print in the archives of the Cineteca di Bologna, where it had been misfiled, possibly on purpose.
Translation (6); Doch mindestens eine Kopie des Films überdauerte die Zeit und wurde schließlich 1977 von einem Forscher in den Archiven der Cineteca di Bologna gefunden, wo der Film falsch einsortiert wurde, vielleicht absichtlich.
Köder (Deutsch/Langseitige Version)
Köder (Deutsch/Dia-Version)
The sixth in the illustration series Toozie’s Sacrifice The series was commissioned by me and done by the artist Dark Vasili. It is concept art for a screenplay on which I am working with the tentative title of Auto-Icon.
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PAGE 6 (Four panels)
(Note: These panels should be in sepia)
Panel 1: View of the Bride in the water, swimming upright but entirely below the surface (we can just see her as blurry outlines).
CAPTION – PSEUDO-NARRATION (1): The Scelleratini brothers’ film technology might have been primitive, but it captured something remarkable.
Translation (1): Die Filmtechnik der Brüder Scelleratini war vielleicht altmodisch, aber sie konnten etwas wirklich erstaunliches festhalten.
Panel 2: View of the Bride, still in the water, with a few tentacles reaching out from the depths to touch her.
CAPTION – PSEUDO-NARRATION (2): It was something like an alien encounter…
Translation (2): Es war so etwas wie eine Begegnung der dritten Art…
Panel 3: The Bride now enmeshed in a roiling mass of tentacles.
CAPTION – PSEUDO-NARRATION (3): …or even a mating.
Translation (3): …oder sogar eine Begattung.
Panel 4; The surface of the waters. The Bride is no longer visible. A few bubbles are breaking through the surface.
CAPTION – PSEUDO-NARRATION (4): It was an encounter from which one of the parties would never return.
Translation (4): Es war eine Begegnung, von der einer der Beteiligten nie wieder zurückkehrte.
Köder (Deutsch/Langseitige Version)
Köder (Deutsch/Dia-Version)
The fifth in the illustration series Toozie’s Sacrifice The series was commissioned by me and done by the artist Dark Vasili. It is concept art for a screenplay on which I am working with the tentative title of Auto-Icon.
f you support this artist on patreon as I do, you can get access to the artist’s galleries of exquisitely-rendered (some of it very NSFW) work.
This image is available in high resolution: click on the image to load or right-click to download.
Please do not republish this image or create derivative works from it or the story of which it is part without my permission.
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PAGE 5 (Four panels)
Note: Still in sepia)
Panel 1: A long Polynesian outrigger canoe, being rowed through the surf by muscular young men. Standing implausibly in the middle of the canoe is Enzo, his movie camera rigged on a tripod somehow, cranking away and filming some scene he can see from the canoe.
CAPTION – PSEUDO-NARRATION (1): The Scelleratini brothers were even invited along to film the “wedding.”
Translation (1): Die Brüder Scelleratini wurden sogar dazu eingeladen, die “Hochzeit” zu filmen.
Panel 2: View of another outrigger canoe, also rowed by strong young men. The Bride sits in the bow of the canoe, gazing out to sea.
CAPTION – PSEUDO-NARRATION (2): The people rowed out to a spot of ocean known to be over a deep oceanic trench.
Translation (2): Die Menschen ruderten hinaus aufs Meer zu einer Stelle, an der ein tiefer Meeresgraben lag.
,span class=”comelement”>Panel 3: The Bride now stands in the bow of the canoe. She has removed her muumuu and is naked, holding her muumuu over her head so that it trails behind her in the wind. She is wearing a beatific expression.
CAPTION – PSEUDO-NARRATION (3): Those involved seemed to regard the entire proceeding as a blessed occasion.
Translation (3): Die Beteiligten betrachteten das Ritual als freudiges und gesegnetes Ereignis.
Panel 4: The Bride in mid-dive off the bow of the canoe into the ocean.
CAPTION – PSEUDO-NARRATION (4): The “bride” seemed to be acting of her own free will.
Translation (4): Die “Braut” schien nach ihrem freien Willen zu handeln.
Köder (Deutsch/Langseitige Version)
Köder (Deutsch/Dia-Version)
The fourth in the illustration series Toozie’s Sacrifice The series was commissioned by me and done by the artist Dark Vasili. It is concept art for a screenplay on which I am working with the tentative title of Auto-Icon.
f you support this artist on patreon as I do, you can get access to the artist’s galleries of exquisitely-rendered (some of it very NSFW) work.
This image is available in high resolution: click on the image to load or right-click to download.
Please do not republish this image or create derivative works from it or the story of which it is part without my permission.
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