Origins of Barbarella

The World Of Kane.
This is probably old news to many, but it was new to me. Barbarella was based on a French comic book. The World of Kane shows lots of images from the French version. Here's one from the artist's website that was translated to English:

I also found out at the artists site that in the second comic Barbarella runs a space circus. And there will be new "reinvented" Barbarella movies in the near future, which I'm simultaneously excited about and afraid of. More on all of that here: http://www.hollywoodcomics.com/forest.html