The cover to The Complete Crepax - Erotic Stories, Part 1 by Guido Crepax. The title and name appear in white and light pink text against a bold coral background. The word 'Crepax' also appears over four side-by-side illustrations of a woman removing her clothing. The young woman has a bobbed haircut, and gradually tugs up a sleeveless floral dress, and pushes her bloomers down to her knees. In the final image, she holds up her dress to show her pubic hair.
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Guido Crepax, Translator: Micol Arianna Beltramini

The Complete Crepax: Erotic Stories, Part I: Volume 7

On sale date: December 13, 2022

In the first of two volumes in Fantagraphics' Crepax series devoted to the artist's comics adaptations of the erotic literary canon, Valentina takes on Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye, and then we follow Arsan's Emmanuelle on her sensual journey.

"Story of a Story" (1981) stars Milanese photographer Valentina. Finding herself home alone, she cheekily decides to fantasize 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 wife of a French diplomat in Thailand. While the character is best known as the star of a series of pornographic movies, most notably the 1974 film starring Sylvia Kristel, she originated in a banned 1959 novel by Marayat Rollet-Andriane (pen name Emmanuelle Arsan), a Thai French woman. Emmanuelle has a sexual encounter on a plane, plays a steamy game of squash with a countess, falls for a woman named Bee, and has an intense experience at a temple, among the many other transgressive exploits Crepax details from the novel. And, in an innovation of Crepax's own — she crosses paths with King Kong!

This volume is the first of two featuring comics adaptations from the literary erotica canon along with supplemental and contextual material. And, as Antonio Crepax observed in the Crepax Archives, "[The cartoonist,] covered by the authority of classics, ventures into territories of eroticism that up to now he had only dared to touch."


The Complete Crepax: Erotic Stories, Part I: Volume 7 is part of the The Complete Crepax series.

Specs

Pages
328
Format
Hardback
Color
Black-and-white
Dimensions
10.1" × 13.4"
ISBN-13
9781683965664
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