Complete Crepax HC (2016- Fantagraphics) comic books

Set #1 Includes Vol. 1-2 (with Slipcase) - Printings may vary.

Story and art by Guido Crepax.

This boxed set contains the first two volumes in Fantagraphics' acclaimed Complete Crepax series.

Vol. 1 features the artist's unique take on the Frankenstein and Dracula legends along with a half dozen "Valentina" stories influenced by the French New Wave.

In the scifi themed Vol. 2, Valentina travels into space to battle androids and discovers an astronaut in her garden along with many other surprises.

A beautiful, specially produced giclee print of a rare 1992 pencil drawing of Valentina is also included as an exclusive bonus in this slipcased set.

Hardcover (2 Volumes with Slipcase), 10-in. x 13-in., 864 pages (Total), B&W. Mature Readers

Cover price $150.00.

Set #2 Includes Vol. 3-4 (with Slipcase) - Printings may vary.

Story and art by Guido Crepax.

Italy's Guido Crepax is one of the most acclaimed cartoonists in the world. In the 1960s and '70s, he created and chronicled the adventures of Valentina, arguably the strongest and most independent female character in European comics up to that time, and legitimized the erotic genre. Fantagraphics' ambitious Complete Crepax series launched in 2016 to international acclaim, and this handsome boxed set contains our third and fourth columes, Evil Spells and Private Life.

Vol. 3 introduces Baba Yaga, the villainous witch of folklore, and includes Crepax's sinuous adaptations of several literary masterpieces by Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, and Edgar Allan Poe.

In Vol. 4, the author's sexy proto feminist heroine Valentina becomes a mother, outwits a gang of jewel thieves, flashes back to her childhood and adolescence, encounters a mysterious cello, and much more!

Hardcover (2 Volumes with Slipcase), 10-in. x 13-in., 864 pages (Total), B&W. Mature Readers

Cover price $150.00.

Set #3 Includes Vol. 5-6 (with Slipcase) - Printings may vary.

Story and art by Guido Crepax.

Bonnie and Clyde, Louise Brooks, Venus in Furs, Casanova, and Milanese photographer Valentina embark on adventures in this collection of classic erotic Italian comics.

These erotic comics stories span 1968-1989. In Vol. 5, Bonnie and Clyde, Louise Brooks, and the globetrotting photographer Valentina (a movie and TV star herself!) take center stage, while "The Man from Harlem" is Crepax's ode to boxer Joe Louis and jazz. In Vol. 6, Valentina ages in "real time." First, she saves Effi, a German heiress, from kidnappers, and they become lovers. Valentina also has an affair with Bruno, a young cellist. Dangerous Liaisons follows our heroine into middle-aged home life with her longtime partner, Phil, with whom she has a grown son, Mattia. Two of Crepax's lauded graphic adaptations: "Venus in Furs" and "The Memoirs of Casanova" are featured in this volume.

Hardcover (2 Volumes with Slipcase), 10-in. x 13-in., 850 pages (Total), B&W. Mature Readers

Cover price $150.00.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "Dracula, Frankenstein, and Other Horror Stories!"

Story and art by Guido Crepax.

Guido Crepax is one of the most acclaimed and instantly recognizable cartoonists in the world. Only a handful of his works have been reprinted in English and none are currently available.

Crepax: Dracula, Frankenstein, and Other Horror Stories is the artist's unique take on the works of Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley, along with a half dozen stories featuring his most famous character, Valentina, several never before published.

Presented in a deluxe coffee table format, this first of ten volumes in the complete works of Crepax will be a revelation to American readers.

Hardcover, 10-in. x 13-in., 440 pages, B&W. Mature Readers

Cover price $75.00.

Volume 1 - 2nd and later printings. "Dracula, Frankenstein, and Other Horror Stories!"

Story and art by Guido Crepax.

Guido Crepax is one of the most acclaimed and instantly recognizable cartoonists in the world. Only a handful of his works have been reprinted in English and none are currently available.

Crepax: Dracula, Frankenstein, and Other Horror Stories is the artist's unique take on the works of Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley, along with a half dozen stories featuring his most famous character, Valentina, several never before published.

Presented in a deluxe coffee table format, this first of ten volumes in the complete works of Crepax will be a revelation to American readers.

Hardcover, 10-in. x 13-in., 440 pages, B&W. Mature Readers

Cover price $85.00.

Volume 2 - 1st printing. "The Time Eater and Other Horror Stories!"

Story and art by Guido Crepax.

panning the 1960s-1980s, this science-fiction-themed second volume of our complete Guido Crepax library features, in addition to adventuress Valentina, two more of the famed Italian erotic artist's heroines. Marianna is a mysterious friend of Valentina's (or is she? And why do they look so alike?). Belinda is a motorcycle-driving, pop art action star inspired by then contemporary characters like Barbarella. In The Time Eaters & Other Stories, Valentina meets a curious couple in an asylum, encounters strange creatures on a photo assignment, is caught in a Rube-Goldberg-like death trap, and much more.

Reproduced in a lush, oversized format to best showcase the sensuous beauty of Crepax's drawing, these volumes also include contextual essays about the cartoonist - and the real-world, mid-century Milan that the characters inhabit - by an international cast of comics critics and historians. Universally acclaimed as one of the most extravagant and luxurious series of comics collections ever published, The Time Eaters more than lives up to the critical reception of our first volume of The Complete Crepax.

Hardcover, 10-in. x 13-in., 440 pages, B&W. Mature Readers

Cover price $75.00.

Volume 3 - 1st printing. "Evil Spells!"

Story and art by Guido Crepax.

The third volume of Fantagraphics' monumental collection of Guido Crepax's comics collects the "Baba Yaga" storyline, which recasts the witch of folklore (it was adapted for the screen in 1973 starring Carroll Baker as the middleaged, lesbian villainess). Under Baba Yaga's influence, a doll, Annette, comes to life; Valentina and her lover, Philip, are forced to act out the fairy tale Bluebeard; and Philip must fight the witch in her lair to save their kidnapped child.

Evil Spells also features the famed Italian cartoonist's sinuous adaptations of several literary masterpieces: Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, and a giallo genre take on Edgar Allan Poe. Accompanying the stories are notes providing historical context, and an article by the director of the film. The oversized format and exacting reproduction standards perfectly showcase Crepax's virtuosic composition, design, and draftsmanship, as well the boundless visual imagination that has inspired several generations of cartoonists and designers.

Hardcover, 10-in. x 13-in., 424 pages, B&W. Mature Readers

Cover price $75.00.

Volume 4 - 1st printing. "Private Life!"

Story and art by Guido Crepax.

The fourth volume of Fantagraphics' groundbreaking Complete Crepax series puts the author's sexy proto feminist heroine Valentina, the globe-trotting Milanese photographer, front and center in a series of erotic comics narratives. Most of the comics in this volume, spanning 1965 to 1985, have never before been published in English.

It includes Crepax's first foray into comics magazines-"The Curve of Lesmo"-in which our heroine is introduced as an adventurer's sidekick! Elsewhere in this volume, she becomes a mother, outwits a gang of jewel thieves, flashes back to her childhood and adolescence, encounters a mysterious cello, and much more! Not only is Crepax's impeccable draftsmanship on full display, but this deluxe package highlights the innovative visual storytelling techniques that made him an international sensation.

Hardcover, 10-in. x 13-in., 424 pages, B&W. Mature Readers

Cover price $85.00.

Volume 5 - 1st printing. "American Stories!"

Story and art by Guido Crepax.

The Complete Crepax Vol. 5: American Stories collects stories that span 1968-1986, such as Crepax's ode to boxer Joe Louis.

In other tales, Valentina attempts to balance new relationships with lovers alongside the domestic life she shares with Phil. Meanwhile, Valentina's fantasy life goes Hollywood. Bonnie and Clyde make an appearance, and there are several homages to the silent film era.

Hardcover, 10-in. x 13-in., 450 pages, PC/PB&W. Mature Readers

Cover price $85.00.

Volume 6 - 1st printing. "Dangerous Liaisons!"

Story and art by Guido Crepax. Translated by Micol Beltramini. Introduction by Barbara Uhlig.

In The Complete Crepax Vol. 6: Dangerous Liaisons, which spans 1977-1989, Valentina settles into middle-aged home life with her longtime partner, Phil, with whom she has a grown son, Mattia. Two of Crepax's lauded graphic adaptations: "Venus in Furs" and "The Memoirs of Cassanova" are featured.

Hardcover, 10-in. x 13-in., 416 pages, PC/PB&W. Mature Readers

Cover price $85.00.

Volume 7 - 1st printing. "Erotic Stories: Part 1!"

Story and art by Guido Crepax. Translated by Micol Beltramini.

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 The Story of an Eye, and then we follow Arsan's Emmanuelle on her sensual journey. "The 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 an 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 is 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."

Hardcover, 10-in. x 13-in., 416 pages, PC/PB&W. Mature Readers

Cover price $85.00.

Volume 8 - 1st printing. "Erotic Stories: Part 2!" Story and art by Guido Crepax. Translated by Micol Beltramini. In Part II of Guido Crepax's "Erotic Stories," Alain Robbe-Grillet introduces the Italian master's comics adaptation of the groundbreaking BDSM Story of O by Pauline Réage. This volume of Fantagraphics' ambitious series reprinting all of Guido Crepax's most significant comics is the second of two volumes featuring Crepax's comics adaptations from the literary erotica canon. This volume contains Crepax's longest graphic novel - "Story of O." A woman finds fulfillment when she subsumes her identity by sexually submitting to a secret society. Crepax sumptuously draws every strike of the whip and taps into the sensuality of body modification in his adaptation of this groundbreaking work. Also included is his short story "Unexpected Exchange," filled with the sensual delights you have come to expect from Crepax: lingerie, bisexuality, the 1920s, and the most symbolically drawn train you've ever seen outside of a Hitchcock film. As the Crepax Archives observes, "The cartoonist, licensed by the authority of classics, ventures deeply into territories of eroticism that up to now he had only dared to touch." In addition to the usual accompanying essays putting Crepax's stories into historical and cultural context, this volume also features Nouveau Roman novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet's (The Voyeur, Last Year at Marienbad) introduction to Story of O. Guido Crepax was born in Milan, Italy, in 1933. After acquiring a degree in architecture, he worked on award-winning advertising campaigns for such corporations as Shell and Dunlop. He went on to become one of Italy's most important cartoonists, most famous for his psychedelic and erotic Valentina stories. Some of her exploits were adapted into a TV series and a film. He died in 2003. Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-2008) was an influential French writer and filmmaker associated with the Nouveau Roman movement in novels such as Le Voyeur and La Jalousie. His film collaborations, such as Last Year at Marienbad (with Alain Resnais), won prizes and Academy Award nominations. Hardcover, 10-in. x 13-in., 264 pages, PC/PB&W. Mature Readers Cover price $65.00.