Comics+Música: Rarotonga / Café Tacuba

Rarotonga. Canción por el grupo Mexicano Café Tacuba del albúm del mismo nombre de 1992(Rarotonga is the name of a Pacific island, but the song is about a female jungle-dwelling character in a comic book by Antonio Gutierrez)

RAROTONGA Rarotonga era el personaje principal de un comic del mismo nombre, creación de Antonio Gutierrez, un gran dibujante mexicano. Rarotonga era una mujer morena que vivía en la selva, reina de la isla del mismo nombre [en la realidad la Isla de Rarotonga es parte de las Islas Fiji, al este de Australia cerca del trópico de Capricornio]. Rarotonga se vestia con una especie de capa en la parte de arriba y una tanga con pañuelos abajo muy cortos (ver imagen), era una mujer muy bella y "escultural", voluptuosa, de ojos verdes, usaba un peinado afro, enchinado y no muy largo, por cierto, después a ese peinado se le llamo a la "rarotonga" y se popularizo en México entre las jóvenes sesenteras y setenteras. Rarotonga se dedicaba básicamente a bailar (al ser la reina no tenia que trabajar) y a enamorar con su gran bellezaa los expedicionarios que visitaban la isla. Esta revista aparecía en los puestos de revistas todos los martes, por esta razón aparecía constantemente en la contraportada de otras revistas, diciendo la frase: "Hazme tuya cada martes!". Este comic desapareció alrededor de los años 68 o 69.

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Comics+Music: Tintin/Faust Opera

The Adventures of Tintin (French: Les Aventures de Tintin) is a series of comic books created by Belgian artist Hergé
The Castafiore Emerald (French: Les Bijoux de la Castafiore) is one of a series of classic comic-strip albums,

Bianca Castafiore, the Milanese Nightingale, was a recurring character in The Adventures of Tintin: the opera diva first appeared in King Ottokar's Sceptre.

The song sung by the Castafiore, The Jewel Song, is the same song sung by Marguerite in Gounod's opera, Faust. We are led to believe that Castafiore is a world-class performer, who would presumably have a large repertoire of material ... and yet, throughout all the Tintin adventures in which she appears, whenever Bianca Castafiore performs in any context, it is invariably the Jewel Song which she sings.

Gounod (1818–1893) was a French composer, best known for his Ave Maria as well as his operas Faust and Roméo et Juliette.

Faust is an opera in five acts based on Goethe's Faust.
Goethe ( 1749–1832) was a German writer.

Comics+Music: Crapax/Armstrong coverLP

Guido Crepax (1933 - 2003) was an Italian comics artist, who deeply influenced the European adult comics world in the second half of 20th century. He is most famous for his character Valentina, created in 1965 and very representative of the spirit of the sixties
Crepax began to work as a graphic artist and an advertisement illustrator while still studying architecture (he degreed in 1958), producing posters as well as covers for magazines (including the Italian edition of Galaxy), books and LPs. The latter were mainly for classical music and jazz, including Gerry Mulligan, Fats Waller, Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Italian Jazz Stars, but also for more popular works like 'Nel blu dipinto di blu by Domenico Modugno.

Louis Armstrong and his Hit Five "Rendezvous at the sunset café" 1956 firmata "g.crepax-'53

Comics+Music: Tintin/The Thompson Twins

The Adventures of Tintin (French: Les Aventures de Tintin) is a series of comic books created by Belgian artist Hergé
The Thompson Twins were a British Pop group. The band formed in April 1977, and disbanded in May 1993. They achieved considerable popularity in the mid-1980s, scoring a string of hits in the UK, the U.S. and around the globe. 

The band was named after the two bumbling detectives Thomson and Thompson in Hergé's comic strip, The Adventures of Tintin.

Comics+Música: Barbarella, Duran Duran

Duran Duran, one of the most influential British acts of the 1980s, took their name from Barbarella character Durand Durand. They have frequently referenced the movie and character.  wiki®