#Edinburgh peeps: European graphic novel bookshop La Belle Adventure (on Leith Walk, near the Out of the Blue Drill Hall) is hosting iconic Scots #comics artist Frank Quitely this Saturday (26th) afternoon, marking 20 years since the launch of We3 https://www.instagram.com/p/DBhHWZ8AZyS/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Private Life, 4th volume in the Complete Guido Crepax series focuses on Valentina’s emotional life so there’s less of the outrageousness, bizarre inventiveness and stylistic flamboyance but with some trippy dream sequences and some weirdness.
My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/06/guido-crepaxs-private-life.html
The Guido Crepax comic that really blew me away in 2022 was his superb 1920s-set surreal and erotic adaptation of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw.
As with his adaptation of Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Crepax takes erotic elements that are only hinted at in the original story and pus the spotlight on them.
It's included in the Complete Crepax volume Evil Spells.
My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2022/11/guido-crepax-evil-spells.html
I’m not expecting anyone to ‘duty-watch’ through friendship, only visit if you have an interest, I’m just playing out a tv exec fantasy but any feedback would be helpful, even if you only watched 2 minutes!
Here’s the first episode again if you are interested or masochistic: youtu.be/9qIzKmx5EOc #tintin #comics #europeancomics
