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{{Short description|Italian comics artist (1933–2003)}}
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| name = Guido Crepax
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| caption = Crepax in 1993
| birth_name = Guido Crepas
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1933|7|15|df=y}}
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| area = Artist, writer
| area = Artist, writer
| alias =
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| notable works = ''[[Valentina (comics)|Valentina]]''<br/>''Anita''<br/>''Histoire d'O''<br/>''Belinda''<br/>''Bianca''
| notable works = ''[[Valentina (Italian comics)|Valentina]]''<br/>''Anita''<br/>''Histoire d'O''<br/>''Belinda''<br/>''Bianca''
| awards = {{unbulleted list|[[Yellow Kid Award|Torre Guinigi d'oro]] (1967)<ref name=S1967>{{cite web|lang=it|url=http://www.immaginecentrostudi.org/saloni/salone03.asp |title=3° SALONE INTERNAZIONALE DEI COMICS LUCCA, 1967 |website=immaginecentrostrudi.org|trans-title=3rd International Lucca Comics Salon 1967}}</ref> | [[Yellow Kid Award]] (1972)<ref name=S1972>{{cite web|lang=it|url=http://www.immaginecentrostudi.org/saloni/salone08.asp |title=8° SALONE INTERNAZIONALE DEI COMICS E DEL CINEMA DI ANIMAZIONE |website=immaginecentrostrudi.org}}</ref> | [[Adamson Award]] (1972) | [[Jack Kirby Hall of Fame]] (2001)<ref>{{cite web|last=Hahn|first=Joel|title=Harvey Award Winners Summary|url=http://www.hahnlibrary.net/comics/awards/harveysum.php|publisher=Comic Book Awards Almanac|access-date=August 22, 2015|archive-date=May 12, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150512141928/http://www.hahnlibrary.net/comics/awards/harveysum.php|url-status=live}}</ref> }}
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'''Guido Crepas''' (15 July 1933 in [[Milan]] &ndash; 31 July 2003 in Milan),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.designboom.com/portrait/crepax_bio.html|title=Guido Crepax – Short Biography}}</ref> better known with his ''[[nom de plume]]'' '''Guido Crepax''', was an [[Italy|Italian]] [[Comic strip|comics]] artist. He is most famous for his character ''[[Valentina (comic book)|Valentina]]'', created in 1965 and very representative of the spirit of the 1960s. The ''Valentina'' series of books and strips became noted for Crepax's sophisticated drawing, and for the [[psychedelic (disambiguation)|psychedelic]], dreamlike storylines, generally involving a strong dose of [[erotism]]. A film based on his work called ''[[Baba Yaga (film)|Baba Yaga]]'', featuring the character Valentina, was made in 1973.
'''Guido Crepas''' (15 July 1933 – 31 July 2003),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.designboom.com/portrait/crepax_bio.html|title=Guido Crepax – Short Biography|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111210063447/http://www.designboom.com/portrait/crepax_bio.html|archivedate=2011-12-10}}</ref> better known by his [[pen name]] '''Guido Crepax''', was an [[Italian comics]] artist. He is most famous for his character ''[[Valentina (Italian comics)|Valentina]]'', created in 1965 and very representative of the spirit of the 1960s. The ''Valentina'' series of books and strips became noted for Crepax's sophisticated drawing, and for the [[psychedelic (disambiguation)|psychedelic]], dreamlike storylines, generally involving a strong dose of [[erotism]]. His work was often politically motivated too, inspired by his [[Communist]] convictions.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://lambiek.net/artists/c/crepax.htm|title=Guido Crepax}}</ref> A film based on his work called ''[[Baba Yaga (film)|Baba Yaga]]'', featuring the character Valentina, was made in 1973.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://lambiek.net/artists/c/crepax.htm|title=Guido Crepax}}</ref>


==Works==
==Works==


===Valentina books===
===Valentina stories===
[[File:Guido Crepax grave Milan 2015.jpg|thumb|alt=A marble gravestone on the wall of a crypt|Crepax's grave at the [[Monumental Cemetery of Milan]]]]
[[File:Guido Crepax grave Milan 2015.jpg|thumb|alt=A marble gravestone on the wall of a crypt|Crepax's grave at the [[Monumental Cemetery of Milan]]]]
* [[File:Disegno per copertina di libretto, disegno di Guido Crepax per Count Down (conto alla rovescia) (s.d.) - Archivio Storico Ricordi ICON012298.jpg|thumb|''Disegno per copertina di libretto'', drawing for ''Count Down.'' Archivio Storico Ricordi]]''[[The Lesmo Curve]]'' (1965)
* ''Valentina'' (1968), Milano Libri
* ''The Subterraneans'' (1965)
* ''Valentina speciale'' (1969), Milano Libri
* ''The Descent'' (1966)
* ''Valentina con gli stivali'' (1970), Milano Libri
* ''Baba Yaga'' (1971), Milano Libri
* ''Un Poco Loco'' (1966)
* ''Ciao Valentina!'' (1972), Milano Libri
* ''Ciao, Valentina'' (1966)
* ''Valentina nella stufa'' (1973), Milano Libri
* ''The Force of Gravity'' (1967)
* ''Diario di Valentina'' (1975), Milano Libri
* ''Funny Valentine'' (1967)
* ''Valentina in Sovietland'' (1968)
* ''A proposito di Valentina'' (1975), Quadragono Libri, edited by Francesco Casetti
* ''Valentina in giallo'' (1976), Milano Libri
* ''Valentina in Boots'' (1968)
* ''Marianna in the Country'' (1968)
* ''Valentina assassina'' (1977), Milano Libri
* ''Ritratto di Valentina'' (1979), Milano Libri
* ''Fearless Paper Doll Valentina'' (1968)
* ''Riflesso di Valentina (1979), [[Arnoldo Mondadori]]
* ''Filippo and Valentina'' (1969)
* ''Valentina's Baby'' (1969)
* ''Lanterna Magica'' (1979), Edizioni d'arte Angolare
* ''The Manuscript Found in a Stroller'' (1970)
* ''Valentina pirata'' (1980), Milano Libri, in colour
* ''Baba Yaga'' (1971)
* ''Valentina sola'' (1981), Milano Libri, in colour
* ''Bluebeard'' (1971)
* ''Valentina, storia di una storia'' (1982), [[Olympia Press]]
* ''Per amore di Valentina'' (1983), Milano Libri
* ''Who's Afraid of Baba Yaga?'' (1971)
* ''Io Valentina, la vita e le opere'' (1985), Milano Libri
* ''Valentina the Fearless'' (1971)
* ''Nessuno'' (1990), Milano Libri
* ''Annette'' (1972)
* ''The Little King'' (1972)
* ''Valentina e le altre'' (1991), [[Mondadori]], collana Oscar
* ''Pietro Giacomo Rogeri'' (1972)
* ''Valentina, la gazza ladra'' (1992), Rizzoli-Milano Libri
* ''Valentina a Venezia'' (1992)
* ''The Time Eater'' (1973)
* ''Fallen Angels'' (1973)
* ''E Valentina va...'' (1994), Rizzoli-Milano Libri
* ''The Empress's New Clothes'' (1973)
* ''Valentina'' (1995), Fiction inc. Tokyo
* ''Al diavolo, Valentina'' (1996)
* ''Reflection'' (1974)
* ''Private Life'' (1975)
* ''In arte... Valentina'' (2001), [[Lizard Edizioni]]
* ''Valentina'' (2003), [[Panini Comics]]
* ''Subconscious Valentina'' (1976)
* ''Valentina the Pirate'' (1976)
* ''Rembrandt and the Witches'' (1977)
* ''Anthropology'' (1977)
* ''Le Zattere, Venice'' (1980)


===Other heroines===
===Other heroines===
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=== Wargames===
=== Wargames===
Besides his much better known activity as a graphic artist, Crepax was a keen [Wargaming|[wargamer and wargame designer]] designer<ref>http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2011/07/17/soldatini-di-crepax-quando-il-gioco.html</ref> and collector of paper soldiers, drawed by himself<ref>La Domenica di Repubblica, 17 luglio 2011, p.36</ref>.
Besides his much better known activity as a graphic artist, Crepax was a keen [[Wargaming|wargamer and wargame designer]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2011/07/17/soldatini-di-crepax-quando-il-gioco.html|title=I Soldatini di Crepax Quando il gioco non è erotico - la Repubblica.it}}</ref> and collector of paper soldiers, drawn by himself.<ref>La Domenica di Repubblica, 17 luglio 2011, p.36</ref>
He was the author of some of the first wargames published in Italy to be widely circulated:
He was the author of some of the first wargames published in Italy to be widely circulated:
* ''La Battaglia di Trafalgar'' (Corriere dei Piccoli, 1964)
* ''La Battaglia di Trafalgar'' (Corriere dei Piccoli, 1964)
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* ''La Battaglia del Lago Ghiacciato - Alexandr Nevsky'' (Linus 1972, poi ristampato da Milano Libri)
* ''La Battaglia del Lago Ghiacciato - Alexandr Nevsky'' (Linus 1972, poi ristampato da Milano Libri)


==Other activities==
===English translations===

;Stories published in ''[[Heavy Metal (magazine)|Heavy Metal]]''
He was also active as an animator and as an album cover designer. <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://lambiek.net/artists/c/crepax.htm|title=Guido Crepax}}</ref>
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!Original title and publishing date!!English title!!Date!!HMM Issue
|-
|width="35%" valign="top" rowspan="4" |Riflesso di Valentina (1979)
|width="35%" valign="top" rowspan="4" | Valentina: Reflection
| 1980-12
| Vol. 4 No. 9
|-
|1981-1
|Vol. 4 No. 10
|-
|1981-5
|Vol. 5 No. 2
|-
|1981-6
|Vol. 5 No. 3
|-
|valign="top" rowspan="6" |L'uomo di Harlem (1979), CEPIM (Sergio Bonelli Editore)
|valign="top" rowspan="6" |The Man From Harlem
|1983-1
|Vol. 6 No. 10
|-
|1983-2
|Vol. 6 No. 11
|-
|1983-3
|Vol. 6 No. 12
|-
|1983-4
|Vol. 7 No. 1
|-
|1983-5
|Vol. 7 No. 2
|-
|1983-6
|Vol. 7 No. 3
|-
| valign="top" rowspan="6" | Valentina pirata (1980), Milano Libri
| valign="top" rowspan="6" | Valentina The Pirate
|1983-11
|Vol. 7 No. 8
|-
|1983-12
|Vol. 7 No. 9
|-
|1984-1
|Vol. 7 No. 10
|-
|1984-2
|Vol. 7 No. 11
|-
|1984-3
|Vol. 7 No. 12
|-
|1984-4
|Vol. 8 No. 1
|-
| Hello, Anita! - (1980) L'isola trovata
| Hello, Anita!
|1985
|Bride of Heavy Metal
|-
| ???, 1988
| Valentina Rediscovered: Far From Berlin
|1988, Fall
|Vol. 12 No. 3
|-
| ???
| Persona
|1992-5
|Vol. 12 No. 3
|}


== See also ==
== See also ==
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==References==
==References==
* [http://www.lfb.it/fff/fumetto/aut/c/crepax_bib.htm Crepax publications] – Fondazione Fossati {{it icon}}
* [http://www.lfb.it/fff/fumetto/aut/c/crepax_bib.htm Crepax publications] – Fondazione Fossati {{in lang|it}}
* [http://www.bedetheque.com/auteur-865-BD-Crepax-Guido.html Guido Crepax albums] – Bedetheque {{fr icon}}
* [http://www.bedetheque.com/auteur-865-BD-Crepax-Guido.html Guido Crepax albums] – Bedetheque {{in lang|fr}}


==External links==
==External links==
* [http://lambiek.net/artists/c/crepax.htm Guido Crepax biography] on Lambiek Comiclopedia
* [http://lambiek.net/artists/c/crepax.htm Guido Crepax biography] on Lambiek Comiclopedia
* [http://www.museonazionaledelfumetto.it/page.php?page=576&langId=1 Guido Crepax biography] on Museo Nazionale del Fumetto {{it_icon}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927020007/http://www.museonazionaledelfumetto.it/page.php?page=576&langId=1 Guido Crepax biography] on Museo Nazionale del Fumetto {{in lang|it}}
*[http://www.storyofo.info/index.html 'Story of O' website] features SHRDSH!!! - IT'S CREPAX, Deliriums & Desires, by Stephan
* [http://www.storyofo.info/itscrepax.html Crepax's ''Story of O''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180207105750/http://www.storyofo.info/itscrepax.html |date=2018-02-07 }}


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| DATE OF BIRTH =July 15, 1933
| PLACE OF BIRTH =[[Milan]], [[Italy]]
| DATE OF DEATH =July 31, 2003
| PLACE OF DEATH =Milan, Italy
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[[Category:Italian album-cover and concert-poster artists]]
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[[Category:Polytechnic University of Milan alumni]]

Latest revision as of 22:41, 7 September 2024

Guido Crepax
Crepax in 1993
BornGuido Crepas
(1933-07-15)15 July 1933
Milan, Italy
Died31 July 2003(2003-07-31) (aged 70)
Milan, Italy
NationalityItalian
Area(s)Artist, writer
Notable works
Valentina
Anita
Histoire d'O
Belinda
Bianca
Awards

Guido Crepas (15 July 1933 – 31 July 2003),[4] better known by his pen name Guido Crepax, was an Italian comics artist. He is most famous for his character Valentina, created in 1965 and very representative of the spirit of the 1960s. The Valentina series of books and strips became noted for Crepax's sophisticated drawing, and for the psychedelic, dreamlike storylines, generally involving a strong dose of erotism. His work was often politically motivated too, inspired by his Communist convictions.[5] A film based on his work called Baba Yaga, featuring the character Valentina, was made in 1973.[6]

Works

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Valentina stories

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A marble gravestone on the wall of a crypt
Crepax's grave at the Monumental Cemetery of Milan
  • Disegno per copertina di libretto, drawing for Count Down. Archivio Storico Ricordi
    The Lesmo Curve (1965)
  • The Subterraneans (1965)
  • The Descent (1966)
  • Un Poco Loco (1966)
  • Ciao, Valentina (1966)
  • The Force of Gravity (1967)
  • Funny Valentine (1967)
  • Valentina in Sovietland (1968)
  • Valentina in Boots (1968)
  • Marianna in the Country (1968)
  • Fearless Paper Doll Valentina (1968)
  • Filippo and Valentina (1969)
  • Valentina's Baby (1969)
  • The Manuscript Found in a Stroller (1970)
  • Baba Yaga (1971)
  • Bluebeard (1971)
  • Who's Afraid of Baba Yaga? (1971)
  • Valentina the Fearless (1971)
  • Annette (1972)
  • The Little King (1972)
  • Pietro Giacomo Rogeri (1972)
  • The Time Eater (1973)
  • Fallen Angels (1973)
  • The Empress's New Clothes (1973)
  • Reflection (1974)
  • Private Life (1975)
  • Subconscious Valentina (1976)
  • Valentina the Pirate (1976)
  • Rembrandt and the Witches (1977)
  • Anthropology (1977)
  • Le Zattere, Venice (1980)

Other heroines

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  • La casa matta (feat. Bianca, 1969), Edip
  • Anita, una storia possibile (1972), Persona/Ennio Ciscato Editore
  • Histoire d'O (1975), Franco Maria Ricci Editore, from the novel by Pauline Réage
  • Emmanuelle (1978), Olympia Press, from the novel by Emmanuelle Arsan
  • Justine (1979), Olympia Press, from the novel La nouvelle Justine by de Sade
  • Hello, Anita! (1980), L'isola trovata, in colour
  • Belinda 1 & 2 (1983), Editori del Grifo
  • I viaggi di Bianca (1984), Milano Libri, inspired by Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels
  • Venere in pelliccia (1984), Olympia Press, inspired to a tale by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.
  • Bianca 2. Odesseda (1987), Editori del Grifo
  • Emmanuelle l'antivergine (1990), Rizzoli
  • Eroine alla fine: Salomé (2000), Lizard Edizioni
  • Crepax 60|70 (feat. Belinda, and Valentina 2003), Fiction inc. Tokyo

Other works

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  • L'astronave pirata (1968), Rizzoli
  • Il dottor Jekill (1972), Persona/Ennio Ciscato Editore
  • Circuito interno (1977), Edizioni Tempo Medico
  • Casanova (1977), Franco Maria Ricci Editore
  • L'uomo di Pskov (1977), CEPIM (Sergio Bonelli Editore), in colour
  • L'uomo di Harlem (1979), CEPIM (Sergio Bonelli Editore)
  • La calata di Macsimiliano XXXVI (1984), Editori del Grifo
  • Conte Dracula (1987), Rizzoli-Milano Libri, from the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker
  • Dr.Jekyll e Mr.Hide (1987), Rizzoli-Milano Libri, from the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Giro di vite (1989), Olympia Press, from the novel The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
  • Nessuno (1990), Milano Libri
  • Le clinicommedie (1990), Editiemme
  • Il processo di Franz Kafka (1999), Piemme, from the novel The Trial by Franz Kafka
  • Justine and The Story of O (2000), graphic novel of the works by Marquis de Sade and Anne Desclos respectively
  • Frankenstein (2002), Grifo Edizioni, from the novel by Mary Shelley

Wargames

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Besides his much better known activity as a graphic artist, Crepax was a keen wargamer and wargame designer[7] and collector of paper soldiers, drawn by himself.[8] He was the author of some of the first wargames published in Italy to be widely circulated:

  • La Battaglia di Trafalgar (Corriere dei Piccoli, 1964)
  • La Battaglia di Waterloo (Linus, 1965)
  • La Battaglia di Pavia (Linus, 1967)
  • La Battaglia del Lago Ghiacciato - Alexandr Nevsky (Linus 1972, poi ristampato da Milano Libri)

Other activities

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He was also active as an animator and as an album cover designer. [9]

See also

[edit]

Notes

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  1. ^ "3° SALONE INTERNAZIONALE DEI COMICS LUCCA, 1967" [3rd International Lucca Comics Salon 1967]. immaginecentrostrudi.org (in Italian).
  2. ^ "8° SALONE INTERNAZIONALE DEI COMICS E DEL CINEMA DI ANIMAZIONE". immaginecentrostrudi.org (in Italian).
  3. ^ Hahn, Joel. "Harvey Award Winners Summary". Comic Book Awards Almanac. Archived from the original on May 12, 2015. Retrieved August 22, 2015.
  4. ^ "Guido Crepax – Short Biography". Archived from the original on 2011-12-10.
  5. ^ "Guido Crepax".
  6. ^ "Guido Crepax".
  7. ^ "I Soldatini di Crepax Quando il gioco non è erotico - la Repubblica.it".
  8. ^ La Domenica di Repubblica, 17 luglio 2011, p.36
  9. ^ "Guido Crepax".

References

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