Valentina

Guido Crepax’s stylish, surreal spy-thriller series Valentina returned for a trio of oversized, painterly volumes from Rizzoli Libri between 1990 and 1994. The book follows its iconic, photorealistically rendered heroine through a dreamlike blend of erotic intrigue and metaphysical puzzles, rendered in Crepax’s signature chiaroscuro linework and fragmented paneling. A late-period capstone to the creator’s decades-long run with the character, this short series showcases Crepax’s mature, experimental storytelling at its most visually lush.