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Octobriana is a Russian comic superhero created by Petr Sadecký by modifying the work of Czech artists Bohumil Konečný and Zdeněk Burian for an unpublished comic book series Sadecký commissioned them to do, under the working title of Amazona.
As a character embodying communist ideals, Octobriana was said to be usable by anyone who wanted, rather than being copyrighted by an author or corporation. This has resulted in the character appearing in various artistic works since her first official published appearance in the political art book Octobriana and the Russian Underground, by Petr Sadecký, published in 1971.
The supposed origin of the character was in actuality Sadecký’s own creation Petr Sadecký, while still in Prague, enlisted the help of two Czech artists, Bohumil Konečný and Zdeněk Burian, in creating a comic centering on the character of “Amazona. Sadecký told the two that he had a buyer interested in the comic, and they worked together on writing and illustrating the Amazona comic.
However, Sadecký betrayed his friends by stealing all the artwork and escaping to the West. When there was no publisher interest after a number of years, Sadecký changed the Amazona strips into a political statement, by adding a red star to the character’s forehead, creating an elaborate back story, and renaming her as “Octobriana: the spirit of the October Revolution.
Octobriana (Oktyabrina) è un personaggio dei fumetti russi di genere supereore amazzone marxista, creato da Petr Sadecký. Secondo quanto riportato sul libro del 1971 “Octobriana and the Russian Underground” di Petr Sadecký, il personaggio sarebbe stato creato negli anni sessanta da un gruppo di artisti dissidenti russi noto come Progressive Political Pornography (PPP), ma si è poi verificato che non fosse un samizdat ma più prosaicamente un falso letterario.
To download the comic click on photo
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