Little ego

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Little Ego is an erotic comic strip by the Italian comic artist Vittorio Giardino . According to Harald Havas , this comic made the graphic artist "suddenly [...] internationally known". In addition, Little Ego was the first erotic adventure drawn by Giardino. According to Tim Pilcher , Little Ego is Giardino's most famous work.

Plot and publications

The plot, which is based on Winsor McCay's Little Nemo , tells in short stories the erotic daydreams of the attractive protagonist who, after waking up, ponders every time how she tells the dream to her psychoanalyst . The reverie content covers many varieties of sex, including homosexuality and zoophilia .

The first strip of little ego appeared in Italy in January 1984 for the magazine Glamor belonging Glamor International Magazine . An Italian-language album was released by Glamor Verlag in 1990. An American complete edition had been published a year earlier by Catalan Communications in New York, as was a French edition by Glénat . The American magazine Heavy Metal also published stories from Little Ego in 1993 and 1994 in loose succession . A German-language edition was published in 1990 in the Erotic Souvenirs series by Carlsen Verlag . In addition, Little Ego was published in Danish, Portuguese and Spanish, among others.

literature

  • Franco Fossati: The large illustrated Ehapa comic lexicon . Ehapa Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7704-0865-9 , p. 160.
  • Alfred Schuh: Vittorio Giardino . In: Comic Forum . No. 39, 1988, pp. 24-27.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald Havas: Comic Worlds . Edition Comic-Forum, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-900390-61-4 , p. 223.
  2. ↑ Marcel Feige: The little comic dictionary . Schwarzkopf and Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89602-544-9 , p. 326.
  3. ↑ a b Tim Pilcher: Erotic Comics. The best of five decades . Knesebeck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-86873-313-6 , p. 112.
  4. ^ Andreas C. Knigge: Comics. From mass paper to multimedia adventure . Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1996, ISBN 3-499-16519-8 , p. 304.
  5. ↑ Vittorio Giardino at lambiek.net , accessed on October 2, 2009
  6. ↑ Little Ego at ubcfumetti.com (Italian) , accessed October 2, 2009
  7. ↑ a b Overview on .lib.msu.edu (English) , accessed on February 20, 2015
  8. ↑ Little Ego at comicguide.de , accessed on October 2, 2009