The portrait of Valentina
First edition
Editor: Milano Libri
publication date: march 1979
cover price: Lire 10.500 (€ 5,42)
Cover: Guido Crepax
contains the following stories:
Valentina
“U”
publication date: 1979
pencil and story: Guido Crepax
Particular story, in which the protagonist, a journalist, has a human aspect, while other characters have the appearance of animals.
Appearance changes according to nature or profession.
The protagonist lives with a mare, a friend of a mare she often sees.
His boss is a rhino.
There are other humans around, mostly young rebels looking for an identity.
Eventually our man will find the courage to face the boss, so when he wakes up he has become a lion.
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Valentina
"Rembrandt and the witches"
publication date: 1977
pencil and story: Guido Crepax
Philip Rembrandt buys a set of 5 Rembrandt miniatures, with portraits of women, from an antique dealer.
A hallucinating succession of visits by mysterious women begins, resembling the characters in the portraits.
At first they just want the miniatures, but then they become more and more aggressive and sensual.
Philip finds himself manipulated by the witches, individually and in groups, as memories of the Dungeons and the abuses endured resurface.
The return of Valentina and Mattia puts an end to the apparitions.
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Valentina
“Anthropology”
publication date: 1977
pencil and story: Guido Crepax
Valentina, Philip and their 10-year-old son Mattia are on holiday by the sea in Pula (Croatia).
The beach they frequent is deserted and Valentina and Mattia can always be naked.
Mattia sees a suspicious man who spies on them, but Valentina doesn't believe him.
A few days later she is the one who sees him and Philip who does not believe her.
However, Philip begins to behave strangely: he is always tired during the day and does not want to make love.
Eventually Valentina decides to follow him and discovers that the Dungeons are back and sexually abusing him.
In particular, a beautiful hermaphrodite, whom Valentina has already seen on the beach.
At the same time, Valentina relives an experience of her grandmother Louise, who had a sailor as a lover in Venice in 1923.
The sailor has the appearance of Corto Maltese, character of Hugo Pratt.
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Valentina
"Appendix Funny Valentina 1967-1974"
publication date: 1977
pencil and story: Guido Crepax
Collection of short stories starring Valentina, with short flashes of past events.
From the first adventures with Neutron to the trip to Russia.
There are also some sequences of Valentina and Philip during childhood.
Baba Yaga and the Dungeons cannot be missing, of course, as well as the character's muse… Louise Brooks!
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