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Savage Beauty is an ongoing comic book series currently published by Moonstone Books. The series is a re-imaging of the jungle girl genre set in modern day Africa. Featuring Lacy and Liv Rae, Savage Beauty focuses on these stepsisters contending with issues including human trafficking, child soldiers, gun runners, pirates, and corrupt politicians under the guise of the goddess Anaya. In each issue of the comic, Savage Beauty offers a free full-page ad to a charitable cause. Future partners will include Invisible Children and Do Good Day. ==Publication History== Savage Beauty first saw publication as a 2010 New York Comic Con exclusive comic book ashcan.〔("Press Release- Getting Wild With Savage Beauty" ), ''All Pulp'', 30 September 2010〕 The book quickly sold out. The series writer Mike Bullock and artists Dan Parent and Tania Del Rio further helped raise awareness at the convention by selling posters and autographing Savage Beauty merchandise. The first introductory issue of Savage Beauty was an oversized issue featuring 40 pages sold at $2.99,〔http://moonstonebooks.com/shop/category.aspx?catid=122〕 below the standard $3.99 price for most independent comic books. Additionally, the first issue featured a special “Camilla” story, a golden age cover gallery, the “lost” concept art from the 1960s Sheena movie project that was to have starred Raquel Welch and an essay by Michael May of Robot 6.〔 Thomas Yeates and Dave Hoover provided the covers for the first issue, with Hover’s twin covers featuring a unique mirror image depicting the two stepsisters in mirror-like poses. The first issue also donated a free, full-page ad to Invisible Children’s TRI campaign, which focuses on efforts to rescue child soldiers from Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army operating in Uganda, the Sudan and DR Congo at the time of publication. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Savage Beauty」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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