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pencil and ink on cardboard
36,5 x 51 cm
Original comic art made by Crepax for "Valentina nel vaso di Pandora", published for the first time on page 5 on Linus magazine n. 2 by Milano Libri in 1975. Signed and dated.
36,5 x 51 cm
Original comic art made by Crepax for "Valentina nel vaso di Pandora", published for the first time on page 5 on Linus magazine n. 2 by Milano Libri in 1975. Signed and dated.
Specialist Notes
Thisshort story opens with a tribute to Louise Brooks, from whom Crepax wasinspired to give a face and character to Valentina. The title also refers to afilm starring the American actress: Lulu, Pandora's Box, shot by the Germandirector Pabst in 1929. Crepax takes the opportunity to make his heroine meethis muse and ask Valentina to tidy up the his past. A narrative cue that theauthor has used other times. In this page, Crepax's voiceover recalls threeprevious stories of Valentina (The force of gravity, Valentina lost in the landof the Soviets and Valentina with boots) to explain certain narrative choicesand revise a chronology that turned out to be partly wrong. In the end,however, it will be Valentina herself to accuse him of not keeping hiscommitments as a narrator and to admonish him that "we must not keep thearchive of our life", as recalled by Boris Pasternak in the poem"Being famous is not beautiful".
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