Guido Crepax

These erotic comics stories, spanning 1974-1991, feature metropolitan settings like Valentina taking the subway — but what begins as an ordinary trip soon becomes a fantastical journey with familiar characters cameoing along the way. Then, in a giallo-inspired tale, fashion photographer Valentina's models keep turning up dead. Could she be the murderer? In 'Time Out' (1991), she's once again stalked...

This volume of Fantagraphics' ambitious series reprinting all of Guido Crepax's most significant comics is the second of two volumes featuring Crepax's comics adaptations from the literary erotica canon. This volume contains Crepax's longest graphic novel – Story of O. A woman finds fulfillment when she subsumes her identity by sexually submitting to a secret society. Crepax sumptuously draws every...

"Story of a Story" (1981) stars the Milanese photographer Valentina. Finding herself home alone, she cheekily decides to fantasise 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...

These erotic comics stories, spanning 1968-1991, chronicle the surreal adventures of Bianca. Introduced in the aptly named An Expansive Story, the first two-thirds of this volume, Bianca appears to be trapped in (or haunted by?) a gothic boarding school, whose administrators and pupils have untoward and sinister designs. Bianca will bounce back and forth between this school and dreamscape after...

Collecting more than 500 pages of the influential Italian cartoonist's most famous adaptations of the erotic literary canon in a beautiful slipcased box set. In Vol. 7, Story of a Story (1981) stars Milanese photographer Valentina. Finding herself home alone, she cheekily decides to fantasise about Georges Bataille's infamous novella The Story of the Eye — with a twist: she's...