[READ: February 2024] Kris Kool
Caza is Philippe Cazaumayou, a French illustartor who has been working since the 1960s. This was his first novel and it is as psychedelic as one might expect from a comic made in 1970.
There’s sex, there’s trippy colors, there’s outer space, there’s even a plot of sorts.
Kris Kool “has known the sumptuous vertigo of sinking among the moribund asteroids… [his] eyes were burnt by the truly dense flames of the sun’s corona.”
Kris is talking to a naked woman [we learn later that she is a “Lectronic Party Doll–For bachelors only”] about his spacecraft–that he sold it to the scrapyard and doesn’t have enough for a new one. This adventurer can’t possibly end his days like this can he?
Fortunately a rogue named Bluebeard offers him a job piloting an illegal ship for Gweene. The Gweene is a hot woman with tattoos all over her body and… no face. She offers him a job to go to the Mandrakes from Venus, the flowerwomen that Kris believes are a myth. (more…)