
José "Pepe" González, as many of you may know, sadly passed away earlier this year (2009) at the age of 70. He is best known by comic book fans as one of the best (or THE best in my opinion) artists for Warren's Vampirella comic magazine that was published during the late 60's, all through the 70's and the early 80's. José's knack for drawing beautiful women came in handy while drawing the scantily clad Vampirella but always with a touch of class that is sadly lacking in many of today's hack artists who couldn't draw a well proportioned woman if they're life depended on it, but I digress.
Femmes de Rêve (Dream Women) is not by any means a definite overview of the spanish artist, but it does a good job of giving us a bit of everything that was the art of José González. It starts with 4 page "Women in Jail" story with a SF twist at the end called Trop, C'est Assez which may or may not be a reprint from a Warren comics story (it has a certain 1984-ish feel to it, though it may be from Creepy, Eerie or even a backup story from Vampirella comics).

The next full story is the longest in the book - Herma a full length color comic where the titular character, Herma, gets herself into a series of situations where she frequently has to disrobe. In fact there are naked ladies in just about every page of this story. I've never heard of this comic or this character, but like most of this book it probably appeared originally somewhere else. Here's a panel from the story:



If you want to read a very interesting article about José González's Vampirella art, check out these links at the excellent Groovy Age of Horror blog here and here.
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Kind regards!
Pilar.
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