Kaja Saudek, twin brother of the famous photographer Jan Saudek, was born in Czechia in 1935. When still young, he read a lot of Marvel superhero comics, which inspired him to become a comic artist. He developed his own original style, full of exaggerated backgrounds and little jokes. As the first Czech comic artist he started making adult comics, during the 1960s. Many of his stories were left unfinished because of censorship, which thought his style was too Western. Kaja Saudek started an erotic epic, inspired by Forest's 'Barbarella' and written by Milos Macourek. The first two parts of the series, over 250 pages, were finished when the country was taken over by Russia, due to the Warsaw pact. It meant that Saudek had to stop his series. Only a black & white preview appeared in magazine Mlady Svet. Nonetheless, Kaja Saudek is the most important and famous Czechian comic artist.
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