Guido Crepax Libri

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Valentina's journey leads her to the notorious Baba Yaga in this collection of erotic comics. The story intertwines fantasy and seduction, exploring the dynamic between the daring protagonist and the legendary witch. Expect a blend of adventurous encounters and provocative themes as Valentina navigates this enchanting and dangerous world.

"Story of a Story" (1981) stars Milanese photographer Valentina. Finding herself home alone, she cheekily decides to fantasize about Georges Bataille's infamous novella The Story of the Eye -- with a twist: she's playing all the roles! In the stories "Emmanuelle" (1978) and "Emmanuelle: The Anti-Virgin" (1990), Crepax follows the titular heroine on her sensual journey as the polyamorous wife of a French diplomat in Thailand. While the character is best known as the star of a series of pornographic movies, most notably the 1974 film starring Sylvia Kristel, she originated in a banned 1959 novel by Marayat Rollet-Andriane (pen name Emmanuelle Arsan), a Thai French woman. Emmanuelle has a sexual encounter on a plane, plays a steamy game of squash with a countess, falls for a woman named Bee, and has an intense experience at a temple, among the many other transgressive exploits Crepax details from the novel. And, in an innovation of Crepax's own -- she crosses paths with King Kong! This volume is the first of two featuring comics adaptations from the literary erotica canon along with supplemental and contextual material. And, as Antonio Crepax observed in the Crepax Archives, "[The cartoonist,] covered by the authority of classics, ventures into territories of eroticism that up to now he had only dared to touch."

In Part II of Guido Crepax's "Erotic Stories," Alain Robbe-Grillet introduces the Italian master's comics adaptation of the groundbreaking BDSM Story of O by Pauline Réage.

Neue Abenteuer der berühmtesten Comic-Heldin Europas: Valentina. Ihr Zeichner, der gelernte Architiekt Guido Crepax, kreierte mit dieser Figur eine Ikone des europäischen Comic und wurde in Folge selbst zum Star der internationalen Szene. Mit seinen typisch filmischen Seitenlayouts übertrug er die schnellen Schnitte der Videoclips bereits vor 50 Jahren in das Vokabular der Comics. Das war visionär. Valentina ist eine Heldin, wie es sie zuvor noch nicht gegeben hat: selbstbewusst und sexy. Der Band enthält u. a. die klassischen Geschichten: Der Abstieg, Die Unterirdischen und Un poco loco. Alle Geschichten sind aus den späten 60er Jahren und so elegant wie am Tag ihres Entstehens! Erstmals in edler Aufmachung und chronologisch auf Deutsch.