Guido Crepax – whose real name was Guido Crepas – was an Italian comic strip artist, best known for his erotic comics. Like many cartoonists, Crepax had a background in advertising. He made his debut in 1965 with the comic strip series Neutron in the Italian comic strip magazine Linus. He became known for the album Valentina (who was a character from Neutron). He created several comic strips of well-known classic erotic novels, such as L’histoire d’O, Emmanuelle, Justine, Dr. Jeckyll et mr. Hyde, and Dracula. Crepax died of multiple sclerosis in 2003.
Crepax incurred the wrath of the church and feminists in the 1960s because of the taboos in his kinky comic strips featuring heroine Valentina (based on the dreamy masochistic androgynous photo model Louise Brooks). Valentina was created at the beginning of the sexual liberation movement in Italy. She dated an art critic who became a superhero and regularly engaged in hallucinatory bisexual and sadomasochistic activities.
The debate surrounding Valentina was whether she was a sex-positive woman or a victim of male domination. What was special about Valentina was that Crepax also made her grow older in the story.
Crepax certainly made a furore with his translation of the BDSM classics The Story of O and the works of De Sade and Sacher-Masoch into erotic comics.
Below are some examples of his work:
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