Guido Crepax

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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

Guido Crepas (15 July 1933 – 31 July 2003),

Communist convictions.[2] A film based on his work called Baba Yaga, featuring the character Valentina, was made in 1973.[3]

Works

Valentina stories

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

Other works

  • 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

Besides his much better known activity as a graphic artist, Crepax was a keen

wargamer and wargame designer[4] and collector of paper soldiers, drawn by himself.[5]
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

He was also active as an animator and as an album cover designer. [6]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ "Guido Crepax – Short Biography". Archived from the original on 2011-12-10.
  2. ^ "Guido Crepax".
  3. ^ "Guido Crepax".
  4. ^ "I Soldatini di Crepax Quando il gioco non è erotico - la Repubblica.it".
  5. ^ La Domenica di Repubblica, 17 luglio 2011, p.36
  6. ^ "Guido Crepax".

References

External links

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