Valentina

Guido Crepax’s Valentina debuted in 1970 as a sophisticated, avant-garde erotic thriller serialized within the Italian magazine Lukianos. The series follows a stylish, independent photographer whose adventures blur the line between reality and surreal, dreamlike fantasy, rendered in Crepax’s distinctive, cinematic black-and-white art. Though the run consists of a single issue, its influence on European comics and pop culture is immense, establishing Crepax as a master of graphic storytelling and a pioneer of adult-oriented sequential art.