MURIEL A ANDĚLÉ

Original Czech poster

Fantastic Karel Saudek art!

DATE: 1991

SIZE APPROX: A2 

AUTHOR: Karel Saudek

ORIGINAL TITLE: Muriel a andělé

GENRE/SPECIAL INTEREST: Comics

FOLDS: No

PINHOLES: No

CONDITION GRADE: Fine

Muriel a andělé (Muriel and Angels) is a comic album written by Miloš Macourek and drawn by Kája Saudek, originally created in the late 1960s and published in 1991. The album is considered one of the masterworks of Czech comics; it was voted the best Czech comic in a poll held by the newspaper Mladá fronta DNES in 2009.

Muriel and Angels tells the story of a young physician Muriel Ray and her friend Ro, a winged angel who came to Earth from a distant future. The communist censorship considered the story potentially dangerous and banned its publishing. Saudek's style was considered as too "American", some of his critics labelled his work as an example of bourgeois kitsch. The complete cycle was published later, in 1991. 

The main character was inspired by the Czech film star Olga Schoberová, and the main antagonist, militant general Ian Xeron, was inspired by Saudek's twin brother, photographer Jan Saudek.