Where was Guido Crepax?. Was it really Italian?. No, this is not an enigma as that of Christopher Columbus. Guido was born in Milan, all the effects, and to my knowledge, Italy. What happens is that Guido Crepax is international, as the socialist and communist political parties. And so Crepax, as the great authors and artists, seems to belong only to the world without a nation. Disservice, on the other hand, in this author Milan who combines in its thoroughness and precision industrial designer close to the German or Swiss mentality, and at the same time, freedom and fantasy typical of a Mediterranean soul.
Guido was born in 1933, lived as a child by both Italy's World War II, the post-war recovery and full maturity, rise of communism in Europe pre and post 68 of the Europe of the armed struggle. In addition to the political world in which he dwelt, lived the world of jazz with great passion, as big fan as a connoisseur. And the world erotic, Valentina, that of Emmanuelle. Unlike other Italian artists like Manara own, or Tinto Brass, or Fellini, the erotic vision of Guido Crepax is not very passionate, it seems that the author is delighted with his story, but becomes a witness to narrate the relationship accuracy and objectivity unusual. Nor Crepax woman is a heroine or protagonist common, is not a myth erotic or sexual object, is is a free woman who lives her life as freely as possible and in which sexuality is manifested as an exercise more of their free will. There is not even the supposed naivety of Milo Manara, the woman is conscious and accountable.
of his political adventure I'm highlighting a comic masterpiece. In English, translated and edited by Super Totem, like Russia in Flames. I still have, not only in memory but in my library, a copy of that story. It has an episode centered on a little-known era of the Russian Revolution, the civil war that followed the end of World War I, when some European powers and Japan supported the counterrevolutionary White Russians. In this context a patrol outpost, in the style of commands, or saboteurs, faces the first line of the White Army. Of his escape and capture this book. The white officer, full of doubts, full of remorse, overwhelmed by the horror and terror caused by its army, from the original name of the comic, also one of the major allegations, as in Kubrick's Paths of Glory, from due obedience . His images are powerful, the lethargy that characterized the pattern of Crepax, their faces, apparently not graceful, but full of poetry, utilization communist symbols, decanting, no doubt, by the Bolsheviks, are a masterpiece, could convulse any conscience. Awareness, it is understood, the blackout did not move at all.
For others, Guido Crepax is only the creator of Valentina, the Italian erotic myth. This character was born in 1965, the girlfriend of a superhero who soon became someone forgot that this woman had taken his fame and prominence. This character has a strange life, the cartoonist wanted Valentina was born in 1942 and grew old over the passing of his stories and he died in 1995. Along with Emmanuelle and Story of O, Valentina forms a series of stories in which this author unleashes the world of erotica. When it began Valentina, eroticism was a rebellious way to dominant forms, a transgression of a moral capitalist and oppressive, a way of recovering lost liberty. Many of those who began this journey, followed him, still exhausted and libertarian origin. And that claim, in equal part, partly feminist, because he defended the freedom of women to decide on their sexuality, went on to explore other worlds within sexuality. Casanova, Emmanuelle and Story of O, are traversed by the world of erotica. Not reach the level pornographic manga drawings or other publications merely masturbatory dyes, but their degree sexual is very high. while in Spain, but late 70's began to distribute these works ... say licentious. The picture of the voluptuous female figure is less than that of other authors such as Milo Manara, faithful to its tradition of stylization of the figure. In a bit euphemistic terms we can speak of a loving woman's body.
Being left alone with that part of this operator is constrain a primary work of the ninth art, which makes up the entire production, prolific, long. Not only does Crepax drawing peculiar, different, great, the composition of his work, with set design and cinematography, both in the development of the work as in the layout of the page, making it a major author. Not only his own work but as an adapter of other literary works, already mentioned, and children, Story of O and Emmanuelle, and important works of gothic horror, Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, or the Marquis de Sade, Justine . Everything done well out of step, out of fads. It is good reflection of the Italian School comic book line Manara, Pratt and Battaglia, the comic is a visual art and tells a story sequentially, both the story and the drawing must be faithful to reality, although the story is fantastic to be consistent, although the characters are legendary must have body, soul, apparel, and must operate natural laws.
Man In Harlem (Harlem Blues) portrayed as a true lover of the jazz world, that damn legend poverty, alcohol and loss that accompanies the greats of the genre. The series ... Man created the odd story, never as a solo album as stories published in magazines. But, despite be faithful portraits of situations and areas throughout the world, never reached the heights of passion in Harlem and Pskov. These different men born in Rio de Janeiro, Africa, Asia, ... are various attempts to reflect the world who are passionate about the political struggle, the art, the marginal spaces.
Guido Crepax died in 2003. I have not known until recently, was a time when other family and work duties did not allow me to devote to this hobby. It's a shame. For me it is his Russia Aflame. Without knowing why, I saved for three or four months, two hundred and fifty pesetas was 1980 and I was nine or ten years. With that money I bought the copy that still retains. The first was the angry father, 250 pesetas in a comic! and also the drawings are not good! (Now when I see my daughter squander their savings in chrome I always remember this.) The second was that at that time I did not really know what were the left and right, and be doubted whether left or right. After reading this comic, my first graphic novel, I've always been clear.
A pearl in Italian literature of Crepax.
| 1968 | The pirate ship |
| Rizzoli hardcover, 116 pp, science fiction |
| 1968 | Valentina | Milan Books | hardcover, 128 pp. Contains: · introduction · The Caves · Valentine lost in the Land of Soviets |
| 1969 | The crazy house (White, a story too) | Edip (Publisher Periodicals) | soft cover, 96 pp + bn 2-color cover, L. 1000, suppl. in New Kent No 24 December 1969. Contains: · reprint of the 12 episodes appeared in Kent Nos 2, 1968 · more |
| 1969 | Valentina special | Milan Books | soft cover, 144 pp |
| 1970 | Valentina in boots | Milan | Books hardcover, 192 pp. Contains: · introduction · The gravity · Valentine in boots · The Marianna is in the countryside • The child Valentina |
| 1971 | Baba Yaga | Milan Books | in "Ali Baba Yaga", soft cover, 128 pp |
| 1972 | Dr. Jekyll | Person / Ennio Ciscato Publisher | suppl. Sorry to No 1, free to subscribers, roll horiz. 24.5x16.9 cm 16 pp bn + cop in color, written and illustrated by Crepax a child in 1945, unpublished |
| 1972 | Hello Valentina! | Milan Books | soft cover, 128 pp |
| 1972 | Anita, a story can | publisher | theme: relationships with television; published beginning in Sorry No Ciscato Publisher 1 (May 1972) and No 1 (September 1972) and |
| 1972 | White, a history of excessive | Editions Morgan | hardback. Contains: · The mad house · Odessa 1905 • The college girls · Picture extraordinary |
| 1973 | Valentina in the oven | Milan | Books hardcover, 192 pp. Contains: · introduction · Baba Yaga · Bluebeard · Annette • The Little King |
| 1974 | Anita, a story can | Editions Morgan | hardback |
| 1975 | Diary Valentina | Milan | Books hardcover, 192 pp. Contains: · The intrepid Valentina paper · Valentine intrepid · Life Private · Angels Fall · Viva Trotsky · Reflection |
| 1975 | About Valentina | Milan Books | dedicated to Louise Brooks, curated by Francesco Casetti |
| 1975 | Histoire d'O | Franco Maria Ricci Editore | screen-printed edition, numbered and signed, 340 pp, based on the novel by Pauline Réage |
| 1976 | Valentina yellow | Milan | Books hardcover, 176 pp. Contains: • The Murders in the Rue Morgue dual · without title (unpublished episode) · The curve Lesmo · Hello Valentina! · The descent • A little spot |
| 1977 | Valentina Murderer | Milan | Books hardcover, 224 pp. Contains: · Bonnie & Clyde • The Manuscript Found in a wheelchair ° Pietro Giacomo Rogeri · · Valentine blindman's buff in the metro · Valentine killer · Subconscious Valentina |
| 1977 | Internal circuit | Editions Tempo Medico | hardcover, 196 pp (+ 999 numbered copies, bound in cloth, with dust jacket, not on sale), with the first 80 "clinicommedie" Time of Medical , lyrics of "Mr. Hyde "and Donizetti Pino, illustrated by Crepax, published by No 33 (January 1965) to No 112 (May 1973), foreword by the Director of the head, Carlo Felice Venegoni |
| 1977 | Man Pskov | CEPIM (Sergio Bonelli) | series "A man adventure" No 11 (November 1977), hardcover color register |
| 1977 | Casanova | Franco Maria Ricci Editore | numbered edition (900 copies) and signed; rest. in "The Classic of the Griffin" No 11, Editori del Grifo, 1993 |
| 1978 | Emanuelle | Olympia Press | hardback canvas, from the novel of Arsan |
| 1979 | The portrait of Valentina | Milan | Books hardcover , 224 pp. Contains: · introduction · Rembrandt and witches · Anthropology · Appendix Funny Valentine is the game of Philip and Valerie • Who is afraid of Baba Yaga · The Emperor's New Clothes · Valentine in Pandora's box |
| 1979 | Reflection Valentina | Mondadori | pocket, necklace Oscar No 1101 (November 1979), foreword by Ranieri Carano. It contains, reassembled: · Viva Trotsky! (From "The Diary of Valerie") · Reflection (from "The Diary of Valentina") · blindman's buff (from "Valentina Murderer") |
| 1979 | The Man from Harlem | CEPIM (Sergio Bonelli) | series "A man adventure" No 21 (April 1979), hardcover color register |
| 1979 | Magic Lantern | Editions Art Corner | edition serigraph, signed and numbered 300; Editiemme paperback (1979), hardback, 112 pp; rest. in the series "The new balloon" No 18, Editori del Grifo |
| 1979 | Justine | Olympia Press | from "La nouvelle Justine, the Marquis de Sade novel, 160 pp, repr. ES, 2000, series "Ars Amandi" |
| 1980 | Valentina pirate | Milan | Books hardcover, 56 pp color |
| 1980 | Hello, Anita! | Island found | hardbound, color, relationship with the phone |
| 1981 | Valentina alone | Milan | Books hardcover, 56 pp colors. Contains: · The rafts · Twenty years later · Nostalgia · alphabetic dumb |
| 1982 | Valentina, history of a history | Olympia Press | series "The adventure of the comic strip" No 5, hardcover, 96 pp; rest. ES series "Ars Amandi" |
| 1983 | For the sake of Valentina | Milan | Books hardcover, 224 pp. Contains: Made in Germany · · Rosselli und Frau Fraulein Lang · Andante · Schwaerzer Helm |
| 1983 | Belinda one and two | Editors Grifo | necklace "Balloon" No 1; story that appeared in 1967 |
| 1984 | Travels White | Milan Books | vol. soft cover. Contents: Preface by Franco · Cavallone · Lilliput · Brobdingnag · Laputa · Houyhnhnm |
| 1984 | To lower Macsimiliano XXXVI | Editors Grifo | series "Balloon" No 3; story published in Linus nn. 55 (10/69) 60 (3 / 70), 36 tables |
| 1984 | Venus in Furs | Olympia Press Italy | novel by Leopold Sacher-Masoch , repr. ES, 2001, series "Ars Amandi" 96 pp |
| 1985 | I Valentina the life and works | Milan | Books hardcover, 224 pp. Contains: · The Magic Mountain · Valentine intrepid · Life Private |
| 1987 | White 2. Odessa | Editori del Grifo | series "The new balloon" No 11 |
| 1987 | Count Dracula | Rizzoli-Milano | Books hardcover, the novel by Bram Stoker; rest. Hobby & Work 1998, hardcover, 136 pp 22x29 cm, 5 |
| 1987 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Rizzoli-Milano Books | novel by Robert L. Stevenson |
| 1989 | Crackdown | Olympia Press | the novel by Henry James |
| 1990 | None | Milan Books | soft cover, 184 pp |
| 1990 | The clinicommedie | Editiemme | hardcover, 192 pp, edited by Massimo Obbie, "eighty clinical cases drama", a collection of cases from 186 to 265, published by No 218 (January 30, 1984) to No 297 (November 15, 1988) Time of Medical (see also 1977: "Internal circuit) |
| 1990 | Emanuelle the antivergine | Rizzoli | series I teachers Glénat, from the novel of Arsen |
| 1991 | Valentina and other | Mondadori | Oscar necklace, "you are complete stories, hardcover, 240 pp, edited by Massimo Moscati, repr. Club by the publishers |
| 1992 | Valentina, the magpie | Rizzoli-Milano Books | paperback, 176 pp |
| 1994 | And Valerie is ... | Rizzoli-Milano | Books paperback, 160 pp |
| 1994 | Crepax - Valentina [7 volumes] | Blue Press | paperback, varies foliation, bn. Contain: · Volume 1 · Volume 2 · Volume 3 · Volume 4 · Volume 5 · Volume 6 · Volume 7 |
| 2001 | In art ... Valentina | Lizard | Contains: · foreword by Vincenzo Mazzarella • The false Kandinsky · Syndrome Moore |
| 2002 | Frankenstein | Grifo Edizioni | series "The Waves" No 20, 96 pp bn |
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