Category Archives: Lorelei

Lorelei: Fashion Trendsetter!

Well, this was a surprise. Since I don’t pay much attention to the latest recording artists and their performances—my musical tastes tend to run, shall we say, a tad older than Katy Perry and Justin Bieber—it wasn’t until this morning … Continue reading

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Happy 45th Anniversary, Vampirella!

It was in 1969, forty-five years ago this month, that the horror-comic world was introduced to Vampirella, the blood-sucking femme fatale from the planet Drakulon (an outer-space vampire!) created by Famous Monsters of Filmland founder Forrest J Ackerman and designed … Continue reading

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Lorelei: What’s Up With That Look?

“I won’t draw it. It’s one of the most ridiculous costume designs I’ve ever seen.” So said Gray Morrow—legendary artist of Zatanna, Man-Thing, the Vigilante, Creepy, Eerie, Jonah Hex, Star Trek, and his own Edge of Chaos—back in 2001, when … Continue reading

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Vampirella: Suddenly, I’m a Comics Reviewer

I’ve been a writer, an editor, an artist, a letterer, a proofreader, a copyeditor, a designer, and a publisher, but apparently I still don’t have enough to do, because as of today I’m also a reviewer of bad-girl comics, courtesy … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday, Frank Thorne!

He wasn’t the first artist to draw Red Sonja, Hyborean Age “she-devil with a sword” and equal to Conan the Barbarian, or the first to render her in her iconic chainmail “bikini,” but Frank Thorne was certainly the one who … Continue reading

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SWC Backlist: Lorelei: Sects and the City

Continuing our review of SWC’s backlist, today we look at the Mature Readers graphic novel Lorelei: Sects and the City, written by Steven A. Roman (The Saga of Pandora Zwieback, X-Men: The Chaos Engine Trilogy) and illustrated by Eliseu Gouveia … Continue reading

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Lorelei: The Celebrity Endorsements

In her quarter century of stealing the souls of evildoers, our resident succubus, Lorelei, has gained quite the following. Some fans come for the good-girl/bad-girl art; some come for the horror; some come for the quality writing (he said modestly); … Continue reading

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2014: The Year of the Succubus

It was 25 years ago that our resident soul-stealing succubus, Lorelei, made her small-press comic debut, in 1989’s Lorelei One-Shot Special (the cover of which you see here). Heavily influenced by comics’ #1 femme fatale, Vampirella, as well as by … Continue reading

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Some Good Bad-Girl Pencils

Courtesy of comic-art legend Esteban Maroto, here’s a rare behind-the-scenes photograph of his in-work pencils for what would become the cover painter of our critically acclaimed, mature readers graphic novel Lorelei: Sects and the City.  Pinned to the left side … Continue reading

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Lorelei: Now in Handy E-book Form

Just in time for the Halloween season comes this spectacular treat: Lorelei: Sects and the City, our critically acclaimed Mature Readers graphic novel, will be available in PDF format this coming Thursday! Reintroducing The ’Warp’s first horror heroine—who made her … Continue reading

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