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The Complete Crepax #3
Coleção Crepax: O Médico e o Monstro e Outras Histórias
As bruxas estão à solta! O mais novo lançamento da Coleção Crepax, que reúne as principais obras de um gênio inigualável, mistura uma das melhores sagas de Valentina com belas adaptações de Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson e Henry James.
Filho da revolução cultural que tomou o mundo de assalto na segunda metade do século XX, o italiano Guido Crepax angaria até hoje uma legião de fãs com suas HQs picantes, delirantes e experimentais. Neste novo volume da coleção de suas histórias, a encantadora fotógrafa Valentina Rosselli enfim encontra sua maior nêmese: Baba Yaga, a enigmática bruxa que deseja dominá-la, e para isso conta com um arsenal de feitiços macabros, animais silvestres e objetos amaldiçoados.
Coleção Crepax: O Médico e o Monstro e Outras Histórias reúne na íntegra a tetralogia de Baba Yaga, um dos segmentos mais marcantes da série, tendo ganhado as telonas em 1973 no filme Baba Yaga: A Bruxa Maldita, até hoje a única adaptação de Valentina para o cinema. Em meio a dez histórias indecentes e refinadas, a coletânea ainda traz várias das famosas adaptações literárias de Crepax, nas quais o autor converte seu traço ao estilo da trama e injeta uma boa dose da própria personalidade…
Uma versão bem mais explícita e perversa do clássico O Estranho Caso do Dr. Jekyll e do Sr. Hyde (ou O Médico e o Monstro), de R. L. Stevenson, imaginando os trechos secretos que o autor teria jogado na lareira. Os três contos de Poe estrelados pelo cavaleiro C. Auguste Dupin, considerado um ancestral de Sherlock Holmes como o primeiro grande detetive da ficção. E ainda, a excêntrica trama de fantasmas A Volta do Parafuso, de Henry James, em uma versão desprovida de pudor.
O terceiro livro de uma das mais completas e caprichadas coleções de autor já lançadas no Brasil. Com capa dura, verniz localizado e mais de 400 páginas em papel couché de alta gramatura. E dentre os diversos textos dissecando a produção “crepaxiana”, um prefácio do lendário editor e crítico Oreste Del Buono, uma exploração da relação íntima de Crepax com o cinema italiano, e uma série de comentários por seu filho e sua esposa desvelando os bastidores da produção de várias histórias. Uma edição à altura para um legítimo gênio revolucionário das HQs!
Filho da revolução cultural que tomou o mundo de assalto na segunda metade do século XX, o italiano Guido Crepax angaria até hoje uma legião de fãs com suas HQs picantes, delirantes e experimentais. Neste novo volume da coleção de suas histórias, a encantadora fotógrafa Valentina Rosselli enfim encontra sua maior nêmese: Baba Yaga, a enigmática bruxa que deseja dominá-la, e para isso conta com um arsenal de feitiços macabros, animais silvestres e objetos amaldiçoados.
Coleção Crepax: O Médico e o Monstro e Outras Histórias reúne na íntegra a tetralogia de Baba Yaga, um dos segmentos mais marcantes da série, tendo ganhado as telonas em 1973 no filme Baba Yaga: A Bruxa Maldita, até hoje a única adaptação de Valentina para o cinema. Em meio a dez histórias indecentes e refinadas, a coletânea ainda traz várias das famosas adaptações literárias de Crepax, nas quais o autor converte seu traço ao estilo da trama e injeta uma boa dose da própria personalidade…
Uma versão bem mais explícita e perversa do clássico O Estranho Caso do Dr. Jekyll e do Sr. Hyde (ou O Médico e o Monstro), de R. L. Stevenson, imaginando os trechos secretos que o autor teria jogado na lareira. Os três contos de Poe estrelados pelo cavaleiro C. Auguste Dupin, considerado um ancestral de Sherlock Holmes como o primeiro grande detetive da ficção. E ainda, a excêntrica trama de fantasmas A Volta do Parafuso, de Henry James, em uma versão desprovida de pudor.
O terceiro livro de uma das mais completas e caprichadas coleções de autor já lançadas no Brasil. Com capa dura, verniz localizado e mais de 400 páginas em papel couché de alta gramatura. E dentre os diversos textos dissecando a produção “crepaxiana”, um prefácio do lendário editor e crítico Oreste Del Buono, uma exploração da relação íntima de Crepax com o cinema italiano, e uma série de comentários por seu filho e sua esposa desvelando os bastidores da produção de várias histórias. Uma edição à altura para um legítimo gênio revolucionário das HQs!
444 pages, Hardcover
First published January 2, 2018
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About the author
Guido Crepax
418 books83 followersGuido Crepax (born Crepas, 1933-2003) was an Italian illustrator and comics author, considered one of the most influential cartoonists of the second half of the 20th century. He is notably remembered for his sophisticated black and white art, as well as his dreamlike storylines, often involving a significative dose of erotism.
Crepax was born and raised in Milan, the son of famed cellist Gilberto Crepas. He graduated in Architecture in 1958, then started a successful career in illustration, mostly for advertisement and record covers.
Crepax began making comics in the middle of the 60's, particularly for the Italian magazine 'Linus'. He is best known for the Valentina series of stories. Originally introduced as a side character in the sci-fi story The Curve of Lesmo (1965), Valentina is a fictional photographer from Milan. She is a cultured strong woman, with sophisticated art and fashion tastes, left-wing political ideals and a marked sexual curiosity. Valentina quickly became a staple of European counterculture of the late 60s and early 70s. The series run for thirty years, until 1995, with the titular character aging in real time.
Over the decades Crepax created other female characters, such as Belinda, Anita, Bianca, Giulietta, usually used as protagonists of erotic comics. His other works include a number of comic book adaptations of erotic novels, like Emmanuelle, Justine, Venus in Furs, Story of O, as well as horror classics Dracula, Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Crepax was born and raised in Milan, the son of famed cellist Gilberto Crepas. He graduated in Architecture in 1958, then started a successful career in illustration, mostly for advertisement and record covers.
Crepax began making comics in the middle of the 60's, particularly for the Italian magazine 'Linus'. He is best known for the Valentina series of stories. Originally introduced as a side character in the sci-fi story The Curve of Lesmo (1965), Valentina is a fictional photographer from Milan. She is a cultured strong woman, with sophisticated art and fashion tastes, left-wing political ideals and a marked sexual curiosity. Valentina quickly became a staple of European counterculture of the late 60s and early 70s. The series run for thirty years, until 1995, with the titular character aging in real time.
Over the decades Crepax created other female characters, such as Belinda, Anita, Bianca, Giulietta, usually used as protagonists of erotic comics. His other works include a number of comic book adaptations of erotic novels, like Emmanuelle, Justine, Venus in Furs, Story of O, as well as horror classics Dracula, Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
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January 16, 2018
This third, beautiful volume of Crepax's comics uses the Baba Yaga Valentina story as a centerpiece for assorted horrors of the giallo sort. Besides the sequence of stories about the repurposed Russian witch, we get three Poe adaptations, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and The Turn of the Screw. Most of the comics here are extremely erotic, Hyde's perversions being especially detailed. Like all of Crepax's best work, the whole effect is dream-like and transports the reader into a world quite unlike that of any other artist's strips. At the rate of one volume a year, Fantagraphics has a long way to go, but the trip is worthwhile and very pretty.
January 13, 2022
13 Valentina and the Witches (Baba Yaga Prologue)
23 Baba Yaga
67 Bluebeard
99 Who's Afraid of Baba Yaga
105 Annette
177 The Little King
211 Rembrandt and the Witches
249 Edgar Allen Poe : Three Gialli
287 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
361 The Turn of the Screw
419 Copious Extras
Story: ***
I didn't even understand much of it- he goes into dreamville far too liberally. The blatant contrast is seen with the full adaptations at the end in which he must stay on track.
Art: *****
Stunning.
For maybe 100 pages Valentina's hair was PUDDLED inky and so often very close->up, always with his cool razor scrape action that really makes the look.
23 Baba Yaga
67 Bluebeard
99 Who's Afraid of Baba Yaga
105 Annette
177 The Little King
211 Rembrandt and the Witches
249 Edgar Allen Poe : Three Gialli
287 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
361 The Turn of the Screw
419 Copious Extras
Story: ***
I didn't even understand much of it- he goes into dreamville far too liberally. The blatant contrast is seen with the full adaptations at the end in which he must stay on track.
Art: *****
Stunning.
For maybe 100 pages Valentina's hair was PUDDLED inky and so often very close->up, always with his cool razor scrape action that really makes the look.
November 18, 2023
"Evil Spells" - the title of the third volume of Guido Crepax' comics - features a plethora of horror related concepts like occultism, mysticism and fever dreams, but with his signature touch of eroticism. Key to Crepax' work is the character of Valentina, who appears in most of the stories collected in this volume. Valentina toes a fine line between sexploitation and that of an emancipated, liberated modern woman, though I'll admit the distinction is somewhat haphazard. Nonetheless, the presentation of the various stories in "Evil Spells" is stunning.
"Baba Yaga" is the opening story in this volume, but Crepax' version shares little in common with the well known Slavic folklore. The story features an overzealous feminist (or a "witch" per the tradition of '60/'70s feminism) who borders on misandry and bleats against Valentina for being nothing more than a "meat doll". It's here that it becomes clear that Crepax isn't solely driven by drawing for the male gaze alone, and actively addresses exploitation in society. A follow up story, "Rembrandt and the Witches", does take some of the lustfulness to another level but something about Crepax' approach always feels classy enough to not really be irked by it. Other stories in this collection include "The Little King", "Bluebeard" and "Annette", all of which are mostly showcases of more eroticism with tinges of horror.
The main features come in the form of (fairly loose) adaptations of horror classics. The first volume in "The Complete Crepax" series included adaptations of Shelley's Frankenstein and Stoker's Dracula, and here we get adaptations of some of Edgar Allan Poe's work along with Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Henry James' The Turn of the Screw. Crepax was a bit more faithful in his adaptations of Shelley and Stoker, but for the stories collected in this volume, the preservation is much more liberal. The adaptations are fun enough, but it's more interesting to see how Crepax infuses his love of cult horror films into the narratives. And as always, Crepax' linework is sharp and pristine.
"Evil Spells" is another fantastic collection of Crepax' work, faithfully restored and with plenty of great essays to provide historic context to the comics.
"Baba Yaga" is the opening story in this volume, but Crepax' version shares little in common with the well known Slavic folklore. The story features an overzealous feminist (or a "witch" per the tradition of '60/'70s feminism) who borders on misandry and bleats against Valentina for being nothing more than a "meat doll". It's here that it becomes clear that Crepax isn't solely driven by drawing for the male gaze alone, and actively addresses exploitation in society. A follow up story, "Rembrandt and the Witches", does take some of the lustfulness to another level but something about Crepax' approach always feels classy enough to not really be irked by it. Other stories in this collection include "The Little King", "Bluebeard" and "Annette", all of which are mostly showcases of more eroticism with tinges of horror.
The main features come in the form of (fairly loose) adaptations of horror classics. The first volume in "The Complete Crepax" series included adaptations of Shelley's Frankenstein and Stoker's Dracula, and here we get adaptations of some of Edgar Allan Poe's work along with Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Henry James' The Turn of the Screw. Crepax was a bit more faithful in his adaptations of Shelley and Stoker, but for the stories collected in this volume, the preservation is much more liberal. The adaptations are fun enough, but it's more interesting to see how Crepax infuses his love of cult horror films into the narratives. And as always, Crepax' linework is sharp and pristine.
"Evil Spells" is another fantastic collection of Crepax' work, faithfully restored and with plenty of great essays to provide historic context to the comics.
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