Valentina im Ofen

Italian cartoonist Guido Crepax’s Valentina im Ofen is a single-issue German-language comic published by Bahia Verlag in 1981, featuring his iconic, sinuous heroine Valentina in a standalone erotic-surrealist adventure. Crepax, who both wrote and illustrated the story, brings his distinctive, angular linework and psychologically charged narrative to this one-shot, which stands as a concise example of his influence on European adult comics. Though brief, the issue captures the dreamlike, often unsettling atmosphere that made Crepax’s Valentina series a touchstone of 20th-century graphic storytelling.