Valentina (1967 - )
Related: Louise Brooks - Guido Crepax - Italian comics - adult comics
Valentina, copyright © guido crepax
image sourced here.Valentina is the most known character created by Guido Crepax. crepax was thirty two when he created his heroine 'Valentina', her name, above all, reminds us her haircut... it was Valentina which proved for Crepax the potentiality of cartoon literature or 'fumetti', an art form he had previously attempted when as a young evacuee during World War II in Venice he had read and loved the american cartoon strips 'Mandrake' and 'Flash Gordon'. --http://www.designboom.com/portrait/crepax.html
Description
Originally a minor character working for the comic hero Neutron, comic strip creator Guido Crepax gave Valentina Rosseli her own story in 1967. Valentina, whose appearance is inspired by silent film actress Louise Brooks, is a photojournalist. Her boss, Philp Rembrandt aka Neutron, has the ability to paralyze people or machines he has seen in the flesh or pictures. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_%28comic_book%29 [Apr 2005]
Baba Yaga (1983) - Corrado Farina
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Baba Yaga (1973) - Corrado Farina [Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK]
Description
Legendary sex symbol Carroll Baker (BABY DOLL, THE SWEET BODY OF DEBORAH) stars as a mysterious sorceress with an undying hunger for sensual ecstasy and unspeakable torture. But when she casts a spell over a beautiful young fashion photographer (the gorgeous Isabelle De Funés), Milan’s most luscious models are sucked into a nightmare world of lesbian seduction and shocking sadism. Are these carnal crimes the result of one woman’s forbidden fantasies or is this the depraved curse of the devil witch known as BABA YAGA?
George Eastman (THE GRIM REAPER) co-stars in this provocative EuroShocker (also known as DEVIL WITCH and KISS ME KILL ME) written and directed by Corrado Farina and based on the notorious S&M comic Valentina by Guido Crepax. Blue Underground is now proud to present BABA YAGA restored from pristine vault materials and packed with eye-popping Extras, including never-before-seen erotic outtakes from the Italian Censors archives as well as the director’s own private collection. --via Amazon.com
Baba Yaga (Slavic mythology)
Baba Yaga (Polish Baba Jaga, Slovene jaga baba, Russian [...]) in Slavic mythology is the wild woman, the dark lady and mistress of magic. She is also seen as a forest spirit, leading hosts of spirits. The word baba in most Slavic languages means an older or married woman of lower social class.
Baba Yaga in arts
Creative works inspired by Baba Yaga include:
- Numerous Russian films and cartoons
- Baba Yaga (Italian film, 1973, by Corrado Farina)
- Baba Yaga (a drawing of Baba Yaga's hut by Viktor Hartmann that features in Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition)
- Enchantment (a novel by Orson Scott Card)
- The Sandman and The Books of Magic by Neil Gaiman featured Baba Yaga in a number of stories based on folk tales.
- Baba Yaga appears in Mike Mignola's comic book Hellboy, in the issue Baba Yaga. She is depicted or referenced in other issues, including the Conqueror Worm and Wake the Devil collections.
The following Western works bear little or no relation to "real" Baba Yaga but the name.
- Fables by Bill Willingham occasionally features her.
- In the RPG series Quest for Glory she is the main villain of the first episode. She briefly reappears in the 4th part.
- In Vampire: the Masquerade RPG Baba Yaga was a powerful vampire of Nosferatu clan which reappeared after the fall of Gorbachov, killing all of the Brujah clan vampires that controlled the Soviet Union.
--http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Yaga [Apr 2005]
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