Complete Crepax HC (2016- Fantagraphics) comic books 2018
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Issue #SET-01
Published Jan 2018 by Fantagraphics.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
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. -
Published Jan 2018 by Fantagraphics.
This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
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.
