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Los Angeles Independent Weekly: (Cover Story) author Robert W. Cabell uses his flirtatious narrative to pack a serious pro-environment message. "I wanted Jayms Blonde to be an icon for the world, a cheerleader for the environment, not [solely] a gay icon," Cabell said. Blonde's mission: to save the world from bad hair and bad air. Riddled with playful double innuendoes, Cabell teases with snappy one-liners that makes a statement about Hollywood just as much it does about sex. . . In the end, Cabell describes Blonde as the "updated-Tarzan with the world as his jungle and John instead of Jane by his side."
MIAMI HERALD: A hairdresser by trade and a secret agent by choice, Jayms Blonde and his faithful pedicurist Precious Needmoore, lead the fight to save the planet from bad hair and bad air. Armed with bulletproof-mousse, Uzi blow-dryers, and hair-curler-hand-grenades, they rescue the dude-in-distress, and make saving the earth look fabulous."
KIRKUS DISCOVERIES: Cabell makes the over-the-top zaniness and mock action-hero antics fun, and everything congeals into a wildly enjoyable ride for readers who enjoy the adventures of a muscle-bound, crime-fighting queen in tights. A super-silly, whirling first episode that will leave gay superhero fans scratching their heads-and eager for the next installment.
HX MAGAZINE: (New York) Hairdresser/secret agent Jayms Blonde is gay, and runs the Pink Berets, a group determined to halt the evil machinations of an anti-environment group. Breezy and funny, Jayms is a hero for every gay boy out there.
CONNECTICUT POST: The combination of wild, globetrotting adventure and stylish graphic novel illustrations every few pages gives the book a wonderful over-the-top feel. Blonde's foes are evil capitalists whose industries spike global warming and other eco-disasters. The hero and his cohorts work for STOP (Stop Terrorizing Our Planet) which is covertly funded by media celebrities. James Bond fought an organization known as SPECTRE (Special Executive for Counter-Intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion) led by the supremely evil Ernst Blofeld. Blonde and STOP's primary foe is ZENRON (Zillionaire Environmental Nihilist Reinstating Oligarchy Nobility). The group is represented in the first adventure by "the richest, most beautiful and most heartless woman in the universe: Zaroya Sylva Kenmore Cohen Abud Grimaldi Chang." Cabell clearly had a ball transforming literature and film's most promiscuous heterosexual spy into his very active gay hero.
IN MAGAZINE: New York-based writer Robert W. Cabell creates an over-the-top gay fantasy world in The Hair-Raising Adventures of Jayms Blonde, his illustrated novel that takes us from Hawaii to Hong Kong for Blonde's increasingly outlandish battles with the forces of ZENRON (Zealous Environmental Nazis Ruthlessly Obliterating Nature). Like James Bond and M, Blonde gets his secret assignments from the RuPaulesque Mama. Also like Bond, Cabell employs deliciously shameless names for his characters, like Hung Lo and Harri Kummalot. This one feels like the first in a delightfully silly series.
AMBUSHmag.com BOOK BEAT: The Hair-Raising Adventures of Jayms Blonde is hilarious, sexy, and definitely a joy to read, but I doubt if it will ever win any major awards. Jayms Blonde is a gorgeous gay guy who makes the bad guys pay. He is a hairdresser by trade and a secret agent by choice, a former U.S. Navy Seal who can use an Uzi as well as a teasing comb. With the aid of his faithful pedicurist Precious Needmoore, they lead an elite band of Pink Berets to save the world from bad hair and bad air. It just get wilder as you read along.
Absolute Palm Springs Magazine: The Hair-Raising Adventures of Jayms Blond is a naughty, sexy, comical book about a hair dresser / secret agent fighting crime to save the environment without messing his hair! There is only one thing Jayms loves more than crime fighting - that is sex and a lot of it. It's a very entertaining book that will keep you laughing 'til the end.
DAVID of ATLANTA : (Cover Story) THE BASIC PLOT is of two warring organizations. STOP (Stop Terrorizing Our Planet) is the environmental espionage group, led by the RuPaul-like Mama, that employs Jayms. STOP's arch nemesis is ZENRON (Zealot Environmental Nazis Ruthlessly Obliterating Nature), a sinister cabal of billionaires who refuse to use their money to help Mother Nature. The only restraint used in "Jayms Blonde" is in regards to the sex. Amorous scenes are alluded to, not elucidated, and the most salacious thing in an illustration is the occasional bare bottom. "The definition of the book is 'the lights go off before the dicks come out,'" Cabell jokes. "It's salacious, but not X-rated.
OUT IN NEW JERSEY: Everyone knows no one is more fierce than a gay hairdresser on a mission but you just aren't ready for how fierce that can be when super-gay-hero Jayms Blonde fires up his Uzi hair dryer and starts lobbing a few hair curler grenades. A secret agent of STOP, (Stop Terrorizing Our Planet) Blonde is an eco-warrior battling the forces of planetary spoliation. The book is really a lot of fun and would be an enjoyable fantasy trip for everyone from gay teens through older people who haven't forgotten the pleasure of imagination. With copious, sharply rendered illustrations, the book is almost a graphic novel and much more than a comic. It leaves the reader satisfied, laughing and pondering "if only. . ."
LAMBDA BOOK REPORT WINTER 2008: If a reader relishes campy writing employing loads of outrageous puns, double entendres, innuendos, inside jokes, and the like, then he will enjoy this first outing in what proposes to be a series. Typical of the novel's humor is the villainess's quip as she feeds gay Hugh Humpit to her tigers: "if you don't eat pussy, pussy will eat you." (Other characters' names include Connie Ling Qua, Harri Kummalot, and Dr. Randy Dick.) The story is erotic to its core without ever being sexually explicit. Forty-six highly appropriate illustrations by Cabell, Anthony Maligno, and Pevo scattered throughout the book give it a flavor of a graphic novel.
GAYWIRED.com: Grab Jayms Blonde, renowned stylist to the stars and secret agent, and hang on if you can. He is going to take you on an entertaining joyride through a deliriously hyper-active soap opera of a world where just about everyone is gay and espionage is the sexiest occupation around.

Robert W. Cabell has spent two decades working in the entertainment industry with giants like Time Warner, HBO, Spelling
International,
Columbia Pictures, and the NY Post.  He has written a book on humor with the legendary Joey Adams, musical comedies like Z-The Masked Musical of Zorro, PRETTY FACES,  numerous plays, and served as entertainment editor for Shout Magazine.

JAYMS BLONDE is loving dedicated to the memory of Marvin E. Gardens, the florist to the stars and the party king of Atlanta who passed away from ALS February 23, 2000...

 

 

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