Valentina (comic)

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Valentina is the most famous comic figure of the Italian comic artist Guido Crepax and at the same time his first great success.

action

Modeled on the actress Louise Brooks , who was admired by Crepax - with whom he also exchanged letters in the 1970s - he created the character of the Milanese photojournalist Valentina Rosselli in 1965, who first appeared as a supporting character in the fantasy comic Neutron . She was originally the eternal fiancée of the art critic and lay detective Philipp Rembrandt, who was endowed with supernatural abilities. Over the course of a total of 30 years - the last Valentina volume by Crepax was published in 1995 - the plot of Valentina changes from detective stories steeped in science fiction to erotically dominated acts. In the stories, Valentina often indulges in erotic daydreams, which, among other things, also enter the areas of fetishism and sadomasochism .

publication

The comic Neutron, in which Valentina first appeared, appeared in the second issue of the Italian comic magazine Linus in 1965 . In the German-speaking area, Valentina was first published in 1970 by Lukianos Verlag in Bern. In April 1984 the albums Valentina im Ofen and Valentina in Stiefeln, published by Bahia Verlag, were indexed by the Federal Testing Office for writings harmful to minors. A German-language magazine called Valentina , which contained other comics in addition to the title character, did not get beyond the opening number.

The stories of Valentina were filmed twice: In 1973, Isabelle de Funès , a niece of Louis de Funès , played the role of Valentina Rosselli in the feature film Torture Garden of Sensuality 2 (original Baba Yaga ). In a series produced in 1988 and 1989 for Italia 1 with a total of 13 episodes of 30 minutes each, the photo model Demetra Hampton played the title role.

reception

1971 wrote Christel Buschmann in the time that you are in the published in 1970 in the Bernese Lukianos publishing Valentina ", and witty to particularly beautiful drawings and funny reactions ideas" band discover, but it would ultimately "but more a concern for Valentina as a further development of other famous comic girls and not for Valentina par excellence ”. For the mirror one Valentina to the "faithful [n] reflections of the old patriarchal image of the trained women" presenting "preferably flayed, with whips, leather harness or in rattling chains, moaning in pleasure, pain or fear [...] ". According to Andreas C. Knigge , Valentina established "Crepax's reputation as one of the most important interpreters of erotic comics". For Harald Havas , Valentina is “the first real sex comic”.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Guido Crepax at lambiek.net , accessed on April 9, 2009
  2. ↑ Harald Havas: Comic Worlds . Edition Comic-Forum, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-900390-61-4 , p. 223.
  3. ↑ a b Christian Schultz-Gerstein , Christel Buschmann: Critique in Brief . In: Die Zeit , No. 19/1971
  4. ↑ Guido Crepax at comicguide.de , accessed April 9, 2009
  5. ^ Andreas C. Knigge: Comic Yearbook 1989 . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-548-36565-5 , p. 373.
  6. ↑ Andreas C. Knigge, Achim Schnurrer: Bilderfrauen, Frauenbilder. An annotated photo documentation about the image of the woman in the comic . Hannover 1979, ISBN 3-88464-010-0 , p. 102.
  7. ^ Baba Yaga in the Internet Movie Database , accessed April 9, 2009
  8. ↑ Valentina in the Internet Movie Database , accessed April 9, 2009
  9. ↑ Trained women . In: Der Spiegel . No. 4 , 1972, p. 105 ( online ).
  10. ↑ Andreas C. Knigge: To be continued . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1996, ISBN 3-499-16519-8 , p. 261.
  11. ↑ Harald Havas: Comic Worlds . Edition Comic-Forum, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-900390-61-4 , p. 207.