![]() ![]() Publicity work followed for companies such as Shell, Dunlop, Terital, and Fujica, then for several years Crepax supported himself by illustrating book covers and record sleeves, particularly for jazz recordings, and by contributing illustrations to magazines such as the medical journal Tempo Medico. ![]() Valentina will be seen to have been Crepaxs greatest contribution to cartoon literature and though conspicuous by her absence Valentina casts a shadow over both Taschen volumes, for the trappings of bondage and pure fantasy, half oneiric and half hallucinatory to be found throughout these later graphic novels, were unmistakably there already in early Valentina.Ĭrepax was thirty-two when he created Valentina, a late-comer perhaps, but certainly by then an experienced draughtsman.Īt twenty-five, he had graduated from the University of Milan with a degree in Architecture. Would-be-Crepax fans can at last pore over the full-monty of this unique Raphael of Comics thanks to the Evergreen imprint of publishers Taschen who have delivered two deluxe hardback editions in English comprising Venus in Furs Bianca Emmanuelle, and JustineStory of O Will the waiting be found worthwhile For the Crepax fan yes, but for the general reader perhaps not.
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