Today is the birthday of Mary Shelley, the woman who invented science fiction, and it is also the International Frankenstein Day.
So here’s something to celebrate the day: a fine BBC documentary about doktor Frankenstein, his monster, their career in movies and everything else.
Enjoy!
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The Adventures of Jane
Today’s media-related post requires a little bit of introduction.
Jane‘s Journal, Or the Diary of a Bright Young Thing was a pretty risque British comic strip in the thirties, designed by Norman Pett.
Basically, stories about an ingenue that would be shown as often as possible in her underwear.
The author used his wife as a model for the character.
But, with the Second World War, Jane took a more active role in the conflict, and was now based on Crystabel Leighton-Porter (who would later reprise the role, live, for a quite popular… strip show). Continue reading
