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Guido Crepax & the Great Masters of Eroticism

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Guido Crepax

Valentina - Vita privata, 1984

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pencil and ink on cardboard
36,5 x 51 cm
Original comic art made by Crepax for "Vita privata", published for the first time on page 26 in the volume Io, Valentina by Milano Libri in 1985. Signed and dated.

Specialist Notes

Thesecond part of this story, published in the volume Io Valentina, contains anoverview of all the stories made between 1973 and 1985 and ends with Valentinasaying: "Twenty years of stories, will I be able to invent somethingelse?". In this page, Valentina thinks about Valentina's history in thesubway and the many encounters with other comic book heroes. The opportunityoffered by this memory allows her to imagine new possible encounters with thecharacters of authors who came to the fore between the seventies and eighties:Zanardi by Andrea Pazienza, Rank Xerox by Tanino Liberatore and Ada di Altan.Its conclusion reflects the author's thought "maybe I would have hadproblems" because, while appreciating the "new generation" verymuch, with respect to their contents and their language, Crepax inevitably feltfrom another generation and therefore a little 'a stranger. This, however, doesnot prevent him from faithfully reproducing the style by paying homage to theseyoung authors in the best possible way.