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Mirka Andolfo's Hot Paprika
The 2022 Harvey Award winner for Best International Book is back in a prestige omnibus edition that's spicier than ever!
Paprika is a successful businesswoman whose career consumes her life, forcing her to neglect her personal needs, as well as her friends and family. Her heart is broken from a previous relationship and its consequences, and a rigid upbringing has made her a very introverted person. She wants a romantic relationship, but she doesn’t know what she’s doing. Not like Dill, a suave, handsome delivery boy with an angelic attitude and a gaggle of adoring fans. He doesn’t have a worry in the world, and that makes Paprika very nervous. But maybe he's the guy who can help her with her feelings—and with sex.
This "hot" director's-cut edition, now available to American readers for the first time, features "spicier" panels, newly redrawn by MIRKA ANDOLFO herself, and is printed as the series was originally conceived—not in color, but in black, white, and fluorescent pink!
Bridget Jones’s Diary meets Sex and the City with a pinch of The Devil Wears Prada in an international hit by acclaimed creator MIRKA ANDOLFO (UNNATURAL, MERCY).
Collects MIRKA ANDOLFO'S SWEET PAPRIKA #1-12
Paprika is a successful businesswoman whose career consumes her life, forcing her to neglect her personal needs, as well as her friends and family. Her heart is broken from a previous relationship and its consequences, and a rigid upbringing has made her a very introverted person. She wants a romantic relationship, but she doesn’t know what she’s doing. Not like Dill, a suave, handsome delivery boy with an angelic attitude and a gaggle of adoring fans. He doesn’t have a worry in the world, and that makes Paprika very nervous. But maybe he's the guy who can help her with her feelings—and with sex.
This "hot" director's-cut edition, now available to American readers for the first time, features "spicier" panels, newly redrawn by MIRKA ANDOLFO herself, and is printed as the series was originally conceived—not in color, but in black, white, and fluorescent pink!
Bridget Jones’s Diary meets Sex and the City with a pinch of The Devil Wears Prada in an international hit by acclaimed creator MIRKA ANDOLFO (UNNATURAL, MERCY).
Collects MIRKA ANDOLFO'S SWEET PAPRIKA #1-12
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Published September 18, 2024
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About the author
Mirka Andolfo
568 books259 followersNeapolitan artist and writer, she is one of the most complete and eclectic Italian creators in the international field. Her upcoming
Mercy
is going to be published almos simultaneously in Italy (November 2019, Panini Comics), France (January 2020, Éditions Glénat) and United States (March 2020, Image Comics).
Her ControNatura (Panini Comics) is one of the most successful Italian series of the last few years. Published in the USA by Image Comics under the title Unnatural/b> , it’s a best seller hit with several reprints already.
There are also Spanish, French, German, Polish, Mexican and (upcoming) Brazilian, Czech and Bulgarian editions.
Andolfo has been collaborating with DC Comics since 2015, having lent her pencil for titles such as Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn, Catwoman, Bombshells, Teen Titans, Green Arrow, R.W.B.Y. and Hex Wives (published under the cult-imprint Vertigo). Together with the writer Sylvain Runberg, she is creator of The Under York Chronicles (Éditions Glénat).
She also wrote stories for BOOM! Studios ( The Amazing World of Gumball ) and illustrated two issues of the award-winning Ms. Marvel series by Marvel Comics.
In 2012 she created Sacro/Profano (Edizioni Dentiblù), a huge bestseller published in United States, France, Netherlands, Germany, Serbia, Spain.
As an artist she’s drawn comics for Dynamite and Aspen, as well as some short stories for Vertigo and DC’s Young Animal, and she’s actually working on covers for DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Valiant, BOOM! Studios, Aspen, Zenescope.
As a colorist, she worked on covers and comics books of important franchises such as Geronimo Stilton, Adventure Time, Ice Age, Peanuts and other series and volumes published all over the world.
During her collaboration with Topolino magazine (Disney’s Mickey Mouse), she has colored numerous covers (including the cover of the historical issue 3000) and stories, working with artists like Giorgio Cavazzano, Corrado Mastantuono and Fabio Celoni.
When she is not working, she loves good food, reading comics and… sharing photos of cats and wolves on Facebook.
Her ControNatura (Panini Comics) is one of the most successful Italian series of the last few years. Published in the USA by Image Comics under the title Unnatural/b> , it’s a best seller hit with several reprints already.
There are also Spanish, French, German, Polish, Mexican and (upcoming) Brazilian, Czech and Bulgarian editions.
Andolfo has been collaborating with DC Comics since 2015, having lent her pencil for titles such as Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn, Catwoman, Bombshells, Teen Titans, Green Arrow, R.W.B.Y. and Hex Wives (published under the cult-imprint Vertigo). Together with the writer Sylvain Runberg, she is creator of The Under York Chronicles (Éditions Glénat).
She also wrote stories for BOOM! Studios ( The Amazing World of Gumball ) and illustrated two issues of the award-winning Ms. Marvel series by Marvel Comics.
In 2012 she created Sacro/Profano (Edizioni Dentiblù), a huge bestseller published in United States, France, Netherlands, Germany, Serbia, Spain.
As an artist she’s drawn comics for Dynamite and Aspen, as well as some short stories for Vertigo and DC’s Young Animal, and she’s actually working on covers for DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Valiant, BOOM! Studios, Aspen, Zenescope.
As a colorist, she worked on covers and comics books of important franchises such as Geronimo Stilton, Adventure Time, Ice Age, Peanuts and other series and volumes published all over the world.
During her collaboration with Topolino magazine (Disney’s Mickey Mouse), she has colored numerous covers (including the cover of the historical issue 3000) and stories, working with artists like Giorgio Cavazzano, Corrado Mastantuono and Fabio Celoni.
When she is not working, she loves good food, reading comics and… sharing photos of cats and wolves on Facebook.
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February 19, 2025I was pleasantly surprised by this
December 11, 2023
Este cómic es un diez. Una mirada feminista a la sexualidad, a las relaciones y a cómo el prejuicio afecta a la vida sexual de la mujer. Un prejuicio siempre de corte masculino y muy conservador. Me ha encantado cómo Paprika va transformandose y liberandose de todo aquella que ataba su vida. El dibujo es precioso, con escenas muy graciosas y que me han sacado más de una carcajada. El personaje de Dill es majisimo, y es una buena muestra de cómo ser un tipo de diez. Muy recomendable.
November 29, 2024
I wish I can say I loved this, but I didn't. Saying that, still enjoyable.
Basically our main lead, Peprika, is a sexually repressed, very successful business women. Thanks to her father, who put into her brain that sex = bad, she has a ton of struggle just being herself and trying to find someone to be with. However, when she thinks she's met the person she might fall for, she uses a delivery boy to get prepared sexually. Things go as you expect and she might be falling for this delivery boy.
The characters are solid, as is the art, it's actually really sexy at times and shows full on old fashion fucking. But also, it can be funny with the over the top faces and such. So all of that works, and the plot is simple but effective.
The dialogue can be cringe at times, and on top of that very very very overwritten. Characters speaking WAY too much. I believe Mirka is a talented artist and writer but she can use a editor to help cut back her wording sometimes IMO. It would only enhance her stories cause her art is goddamn GOOD.
A 3 out of 5.
Basically our main lead, Peprika, is a sexually repressed, very successful business women. Thanks to her father, who put into her brain that sex = bad, she has a ton of struggle just being herself and trying to find someone to be with. However, when she thinks she's met the person she might fall for, she uses a delivery boy to get prepared sexually. Things go as you expect and she might be falling for this delivery boy.
The characters are solid, as is the art, it's actually really sexy at times and shows full on old fashion fucking. But also, it can be funny with the over the top faces and such. So all of that works, and the plot is simple but effective.
The dialogue can be cringe at times, and on top of that very very very overwritten. Characters speaking WAY too much. I believe Mirka is a talented artist and writer but she can use a editor to help cut back her wording sometimes IMO. It would only enhance her stories cause her art is goddamn GOOD.
A 3 out of 5.
December 8, 2024
Maravilloso. Divertido, con mucha erótica y una profundidad muy bien trabajada en este tipo de formato, me ha encantado.
April 24, 2025
Library checkout, high on the list for its category. Everyone in this book is a cherub or a devil, and it is a world where these 2 groups are interacting. The main character is Paprika, who is a little devil working at a publishing company. There are love interests or sexual interests for Paprika including both devils and cherubs, and her interest can chaotically jump back and forth between different characters. If I remember correctly, the story ends with Paprika's interest settling on a popular cherub.
The drawing style of horns, wings, and halos easily and quickly gives a notion to how characters should be perceived. Some pages can be very dense with very little blank space. There can be a lot of detail, and if those details represent significant meaning, it can often be lost on me. There is a definite sense of nothing here can really be trusted, whether it is saying something happened that didn't or saying something didn't happen that did.
All in all, a quick trip through the lives of some ordinary publishing company employees and their familiars, a world where things are often a stalemate and sometimes a cocaine orgy.
The drawing style of horns, wings, and halos easily and quickly gives a notion to how characters should be perceived. Some pages can be very dense with very little blank space. There can be a lot of detail, and if those details represent significant meaning, it can often be lost on me. There is a definite sense of nothing here can really be trusted, whether it is saying something happened that didn't or saying something didn't happen that did.
All in all, a quick trip through the lives of some ordinary publishing company employees and their familiars, a world where things are often a stalemate and sometimes a cocaine orgy.
August 21, 2025
Me gustó mucho!
No le tenía tanta fe a esta novela gráfica, sinceramente solo la compré para completar el monto míninmo para que un envío me saliera gratis y con descuento. Pero terminó sorpreniéndome gratamente.
El dibujo y la edición son muy lindos. Está en blanco y negro pero tiene toques de color en rosa fuerte qué le dan un buen toque. Y la historia es muy buena!
Me gustaron mucho los personajes y como están construidos♡
También tenía miedo que las escenas sexuales sean demasiadas y afecten negativamente la trama, pero estuvieron bien. No las sentí vulgares, exageradas o innecesarias. Podrían no estar tan explícitas? Sí. Pero tampoco molestan o se hacen super repetitivas, ni están puestas por puro morbo.
No tengo quejas de esta historia, en especial de esta edición con las 3 partes juntas en un mismo tomo.
Si tengo algo malo que decir de este libro, creo que sería que no estoy tan contenta con que todos hayan tenido un final feliz. Principalmente l ex de Paprika qué lo detestamos y se merecía más karma y más tiempo pasándola mal. Pero aparte de eso no se me ocurre nada en este momento que criticarle.
Fue una grata sorpresa y de lo mejor que leí este año.
Así que mi puntaje es de CUATRO ESTRELLAS Y MEDIA (4,5 ★★★★☆)
Nota: igual le doy 5 estrellas en el raiting sin decimales de este lugar. Además el 4,5 es solo porque no sentí tanto amor y emoción por los personajes (igual me gustaron mucho), no por algo objetivamente razonable jaja.
No le tenía tanta fe a esta novela gráfica, sinceramente solo la compré para completar el monto míninmo para que un envío me saliera gratis y con descuento. Pero terminó sorpreniéndome gratamente.
El dibujo y la edición son muy lindos. Está en blanco y negro pero tiene toques de color en rosa fuerte qué le dan un buen toque. Y la historia es muy buena!
Me gustaron mucho los personajes y como están construidos♡
También tenía miedo que las escenas sexuales sean demasiadas y afecten negativamente la trama, pero estuvieron bien. No las sentí vulgares, exageradas o innecesarias. Podrían no estar tan explícitas? Sí. Pero tampoco molestan o se hacen super repetitivas, ni están puestas por puro morbo.
No tengo quejas de esta historia, en especial de esta edición con las 3 partes juntas en un mismo tomo.
Si tengo algo malo que decir de este libro, creo que sería que no estoy tan contenta con que todos hayan tenido un final feliz. Principalmente l ex de Paprika qué lo detestamos y se merecía más karma y más tiempo pasándola mal. Pero aparte de eso no se me ocurre nada en este momento que criticarle.
Fue una grata sorpresa y de lo mejor que leí este año.
Así que mi puntaje es de CUATRO ESTRELLAS Y MEDIA (4,5 ★★★★☆)
Nota: igual le doy 5 estrellas en el raiting sin decimales de este lugar. Además el 4,5 es solo porque no sentí tanto amor y emoción por los personajes (igual me gustaron mucho), no por algo objetivamente razonable jaja.
November 21, 2024
I finished this a few days ago. Honestly the story was good, not great but good. Was a typical romance dealing with a repressed but Successful Woman and how a loveable good warms her heart all while also warming her pants. Characters were interesting, the plot was pretty predictable with one small twist at the end that is pretty obvious. The art gives off Manga inspiration.
June 15, 2025
This was one of them "surprisingly cute" comics, even if you know what the main plot twists will be from the very beginning. But it is a story told well and it made me laugh a few times, so I have no complaints. Bonus points for having a main character that isn't your usual gravity-defyingly curvaceous girl.
July 2, 2025
Honestly a little shocked that my library had this, a fun story of a successful but repressed woman finding her way in life and love with a little help from a hot delivery man having trouble growing up, but with a healthy fuse of extra spice. I working say it was the most original story, but it was fun and heartwarming and well drawn and not always for the prudish to put it lightly
October 2, 2025
10/10
Este cómic es el claro ejemplo de que el peor enemigo de una mujer es un hombre misógino y conservador que se cree con la potestad de decirle a la mujer qué debe ser, cómo debe comportarse y para qué sirve. Una sátira feminista donde hasta los ángeles no son tan buenos como los pintan (menos Dill, Dill es un himbo maravilloso)
Este cómic es el claro ejemplo de que el peor enemigo de una mujer es un hombre misógino y conservador que se cree con la potestad de decirle a la mujer qué debe ser, cómo debe comportarse y para qué sirve. Una sátira feminista donde hasta los ángeles no son tan buenos como los pintan (menos Dill, Dill es un himbo maravilloso)
October 18, 2024
Loved the delightfully expressive art and the pacing and dialogue were dynamite. Didn’t care much for the plot but it was one of my favorite romance tropes (growing to be better because of each other) and fun to follow along with.
December 14, 2025
I really loved this graphic novel. The character was flawed, physically and mentally. She didnt have the perfect body, which anime artists constantly draw. This was real. It was a great sexy little romance with lots of comedy, perfect for us middle aged ladies.
September 30, 2024
Spicy 😉 Very sexy but also sweet and romantic and pretty relatable as far as being too much in our own heads sometimes, and letting our fears get in the way of our dreams.
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October 19, 2024I will read anything Mirka creates.
November 5, 2024
Oh my! Oh yes! Of course I had to add this special edition to my collection and of course I had to re-read the series as well. So good!
November 5, 2024
idk why I thought I was reading a cutesy mermaid graphic novel lmfao this shit was EXPLICIT explicit. still cute but holy shit
March 30, 2025
Pretty good, but the panels were sometimes cluttered so it made it hard to read at times.
June 15, 2025
3.5 stars, mostly because of the book’s love triangle.
June 16, 2025
a cute, spicy, romantic comic! Loved the devils and the angels motif too.
July 18, 2025
Most of the characters weren’t that likable
I like bean, dill, and I thought Paprika improved through out the story
I like bean, dill, and I thought Paprika improved through out the story
October 30, 2025
Immensely cute, devilishly sexy. What's not to like?
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November 7, 2025Fun NSFW graphic novel. light hearted. I know nothing about Italian culture, so that was fun too.
November 21, 2025
i want to be her friend
December 27, 2025
a LOT of dialogue and a LOT of it cringe. shrugs
December 27, 2024
¡Wuoli!
Hot Paprika es una obra que llevaba tiempo buscando y, a ser posible, sin censura, ya que considero que si la obra es sin censura de manera original, lo suyo es que la edición también vaya acorde. La edición de Montroz es, sencillamente, bellísima. No llegué a ver las otras ediciones que sacaron (y creo que iban con dicha censura), pero lo que han hecho con esta obra en esta edición es chulísimo.
Paprika es una mujer, diablesa, feminista, fuerte, independiente y la mejor en su trabajo. Sin embargo, hay algo que no es capaz de controlar: el sexo. En esta historia conoceremos a la mujer que hay detrás de la fachada y para ello necesitaremos a Dill un dulce e inocente repartidor angelical (MUY GOLDEN RETREIEVER) el cual acompañará a Paprika en esta misión de autodescubrimiento.
Si bien muchas veces las referencias y las escenas sexuales pueden dar la sensación de no tener cabida y estar ahí tan solo por el puro morbo del lector, en este caso son necesarias, ya que acompañan a la trama y a nuestra protagonista. Es así como conoceremos a la diablesa Paprika, yendo desde su niñez hasta su adultez y con ello descubriendo como afrontó y vivió su sexualidad hasta este momento. La trama toca temas no solo sobre la sexualidad, sino sobre uno mismo: el autocariño, el aprender a quererse y en qué, a veces, es necesario cortar algunas ramas de nuestro árbol para poder avanzar.
Paprika ha sido una historia redonda, de lo mejor que he leído en novela gráfica. Lo adore y el estilo artístico fue delicioso, ojalá pudiera leer más obras de este estilo o de este autor. Creo que, en parte, en algunos temas pude verme un poco reflejada y pude entender mejor a la protagonista.
En definitiva, es una obra que recomendaría a todo el mundo.
4,5/5
Hot Paprika es una obra que llevaba tiempo buscando y, a ser posible, sin censura, ya que considero que si la obra es sin censura de manera original, lo suyo es que la edición también vaya acorde. La edición de Montroz es, sencillamente, bellísima. No llegué a ver las otras ediciones que sacaron (y creo que iban con dicha censura), pero lo que han hecho con esta obra en esta edición es chulísimo.
Paprika es una mujer, diablesa, feminista, fuerte, independiente y la mejor en su trabajo. Sin embargo, hay algo que no es capaz de controlar: el sexo. En esta historia conoceremos a la mujer que hay detrás de la fachada y para ello necesitaremos a Dill un dulce e inocente repartidor angelical (MUY GOLDEN RETREIEVER) el cual acompañará a Paprika en esta misión de autodescubrimiento.
Si bien muchas veces las referencias y las escenas sexuales pueden dar la sensación de no tener cabida y estar ahí tan solo por el puro morbo del lector, en este caso son necesarias, ya que acompañan a la trama y a nuestra protagonista. Es así como conoceremos a la diablesa Paprika, yendo desde su niñez hasta su adultez y con ello descubriendo como afrontó y vivió su sexualidad hasta este momento. La trama toca temas no solo sobre la sexualidad, sino sobre uno mismo: el autocariño, el aprender a quererse y en qué, a veces, es necesario cortar algunas ramas de nuestro árbol para poder avanzar.
Paprika ha sido una historia redonda, de lo mejor que he leído en novela gráfica. Lo adore y el estilo artístico fue delicioso, ojalá pudiera leer más obras de este estilo o de este autor. Creo que, en parte, en algunos temas pude verme un poco reflejada y pude entender mejor a la protagonista.
En definitiva, es una obra que recomendaría a todo el mundo.
4,5/5
March 20, 2025
Buenas!!! Hoy les traigo la reseña de este integral de los tomos de Sweet Paprika. Es una relectura, en su momento lo había leído en digital y a color, en esta edición como verán no es a color 🥲
No lo había reseñado antes así que primero les voy a contar de que va: trata de Paprika, una joven diablesa que es LA ejecutiva creativa de una gran editorial (en este mundo son diablos o ángeles), una Miranda Priestly con todas las letras! Paprika tiene todo lo que quiere pero también algo que no pudo evitar: la soledad. Así que van a aparecer un par de personajes para dar vuelta todo.
¿Qué les puedo decir? Realmente está lleno de clichés románticos, creo que los tiene todos: la chica con corazón de hielo que por dentro es súper insegura; el triángulo amoroso; los dos chabones que están bien buenos y se enamoran de ella, uno parece ser un idiota pero tiene un corazón enorme, y el otro lo contrario; ah acá también hay un tercero en discordia: el ex insoportable...
Tiene todo lo que no me gusta, para empezar no me gusta leer cosas románticas y mucho menos con tantos clichés, por qué lo leí? Primero y principal amo las ilustraciones de Mirka, me encantan! Segundo, necesitaba algo divertido y este lo es, cumple realmente con su cometido y tercero tiene una mirada feminista sobre la sexualidad y el sexo, cómo, muchas veces, los hombres tienen doble cara al estigmatizar a la mujer por su sexo y sin embargo ellos ser los depravados. Por eso, como aclaré más arriba, tiene escenas de sexo, que no están solo porque sí, influyen y se relacionan con la trama.
January 21, 2025
Sin lugar a dudas mirka tiene un talento para el erotismo, convinado con una historia de liberación increible, podemos compararlo a nuestro día a día, donde nos cohibimos de disfrutar todo lo que el mundo ofrece, genial Edicion
December 27, 2023
Espectacular.
May 14, 2025
It's really spicy (not always in a good way) and the romance plot is fine, but I just really don't like the art style. It's just really not for me.
February 9, 2025
A fun surprise. I don’t really read the book synopsis before diving in. This was verrrrry spicy. It was very fun to read and cute.
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