Working on such a peculiar and interesting character as Valentina by Italian maestro Guido Crepax and his complete works at Fantagraphics is awesome since at Fantagraphics we all love comics.
Searching for all printed editions and info about Guido Crepax works; trying to pay attention to all the tiny detail over a collection such as this, it's a lot of work but Fantagraphics proves to be one of the best comic book publishers in the world with all their amazing and skilled staff.
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| Poster made by designer Sérgio Rocha |
British comic book experts Tim Pilcher, Paul Gravett and American artists Sarah Horrocks and Katie Skelly gave me a helping hand as well on the 1st book and for the second we'll have more helping hands.
Never in my wildest dreams, I've thought that I would be working with a comic book publisher such as Fantagraphics and on a collection such as this one.
Due to some delays, the 1st Fantagraphics Crepax book will be released only in 6th march 2016 in stores.
This collection will be of 10 books that will be released two per year on a huge deluxe hardcover format with several extras never before published anywhere.
The press release of the collection is here:
http://fantagraphics.com/flog/fantagraphics-finds-paranormal-romance-with-guido-crepax/
To know more over it, please be tuned on info that can appear here or at Fantagraphics website, since the complete information about this collection isn't correct on any website, since we're still working on it.
You can pre-order the book here:
http://www.fantagraphics.com/crepax/
I'll be at Tebeo Valencia in Spain, 4,5 and 6 December, talking a bit about maestro Guido Crepax and Fantagraphics with comic book scholar Álvaro Pons and with some artists that made homages/tributes to this Valentina exhibition with a special soundtrack made by portuguese musician Sérgio Rocha.
Never in my wildest dreams, I've thought that I would be working with a comic book publisher such as Fantagraphics and on a collection such as this one.
Due to some delays, the 1st Fantagraphics Crepax book will be released only in 6th march 2016 in stores.
This collection will be of 10 books that will be released two per year on a huge deluxe hardcover format with several extras never before published anywhere.
The press release of the collection is here:
http://fantagraphics.com/flog/fantagraphics-finds-paranormal-romance-with-guido-crepax/
To know more over it, please be tuned on info that can appear here or at Fantagraphics website, since the complete information about this collection isn't correct on any website, since we're still working on it.
You can pre-order the book here:
http://www.fantagraphics.com/crepax/
I'll be at Tebeo Valencia in Spain, 4,5 and 6 December, talking a bit about maestro Guido Crepax and Fantagraphics with comic book scholar Álvaro Pons and with some artists that made homages/tributes to this Valentina exhibition with a special soundtrack made by portuguese musician Sérgio Rocha.
This exhibition will have artists from all over the world that paid homage to Valentina because of her 50th anniversary, some made more than one artwork. It was really difficult for me to choose one artwork over another, so I've picked some tributes for an exhibition at Valencia and others will be exhibited on other cities or countries if it all goes well.
Here's the oficial information from Fantagraphics:
http://fantagraphics.com/flog/the-complete-crepax/
There'll be also Fantagraphics book pages and cover and back cover on this exhibition.
We're preparing at Fantagraphics 10 free booklets per volume with 24 tributes/homages to Valentina by Guido Crepax by international comic book artists that gave us permission to use them, to be released along the 10 Fantagraphics Crepax collection volumes, that can be bought at Fantagraphics store or website.
Huge thanks to all artists involved, Álvaro Pons and Daniel Tomás and special thanks to Caterina Crepax about this idea and Gary Groth for their support.
Many thanks
Manuel
Here's the list of artists that will exhibited at Valência - Spain with one homage each
Mexico (2 Artists)
Gaston Ortiz
Tony Sandoval
Poland (6 Artists)
Joanna Joka Karpowicz
Magdalena Minko
Wojciech Stefaniec
Bartosz Jekiel
Chris Chalik
Truscinski
Holland
Frans Mensink
Germany
Christoph Mueller
Here's the oficial information from Fantagraphics:
http://fantagraphics.com/flog/the-complete-crepax/
There'll be also Fantagraphics book pages and cover and back cover on this exhibition.
We're preparing at Fantagraphics 10 free booklets per volume with 24 tributes/homages to Valentina by Guido Crepax by international comic book artists that gave us permission to use them, to be released along the 10 Fantagraphics Crepax collection volumes, that can be bought at Fantagraphics store or website.
Huge thanks to all artists involved, Álvaro Pons and Daniel Tomás and special thanks to Caterina Crepax about this idea and Gary Groth for their support.
Many thanks
Manuel
Here's the list of artists that will exhibited at Valência - Spain with one homage each
| Japan John Kurokawa Austria Nicolas Mahler Croatia Daniel Zezelj New Zealand Dylan Horrocks Swiss Alex Baladi Greece Con Chrisoulis Puerto Rico Nivea Ortiz Denmark Rune Ryberg France (4 artists) Baudoin Beuh Stanislas Apollonia Saintclair Italy (5 Artists) Walter Minus Caterina Crepax Rocco Lombardi Sergio Ponchione Stefano Zattera Portugal (10 Artists) Paulo Pinto Debora FM Ágata Rola Ana Biscaia Ricardo Drumond Sérgio Rocha Paula Fonseca Dario Duarte Osvaldo Medina Quico Nogueira |
Argentina (7 Artists) Alejandra Sanguinetti Carlos Dearmas Carlos Nine Ed Ed Quique Alcatena Fer Calvi Sweden (2 Artists) Nicolas Krizan Kolbeinn Karlsson Finland (3 Artists) Tommi Musturi Marko Turunen Sami Makkonen UK (10 artists) Brian Bolland Dave Mckean James Harvey Hunt Emerson Steve Yeowell Rian Hughes David Lloyd Glenn Fabry Simon Davis USA (23 Artists) Andy Bennet Arnold Pander Beto Hernandez Bill Sienkiewicz Bill Koeb Brian Biggs Brian Quinn Bob Burden David Mack David Lasky Ethan Persoff George Pratt Jason Alexander Jeffrey Alan Love Justine Mara Andersen John Marroquin Jude Harzer Katie Skelly Kelley Jones Mark Wheatley Michael Avon Oeming Michael Gaydos Mike Huddleston Noah Van Sciver Paul Pope Peter Kuper Richard Sala Roberta Gregory Sam Henderson Tim Sale Timothy Georgarakis Vince Locke |
Brazil (11 artists) Alex Korolkovas - (photographer) - Model - Barbara Nogueira Alex Korolkovas - (photographer) - Model - Adriana Moura Sama Camilo Solano André Diniz Brao Laudo Ferreira Jnr Victor Freudt Rodrigo Rosa Tainan Rocha Doug Lobo Spain (31 Artists) Alejandro Santos Albert Pons Vazquez Carmen Ortiz Cesar Moragues Chema Garcia Chris Stygryt Daniel Esteve Felipe Navarro Fernando Vicente Fidel Martinez Nadal Gustavo Rico Jano Javier Gay Lorente Javier Olivares Javier Rodriguez Juan Berrio José Gabriel Miedes José Luis Ágreda Jon Ander Azaola Juan Diaz Canales Kosta Lem Castañeda Serrano Miguel Almagro Miguel Aisa Pedro Espinosa Piedad Ortiz Ruben Pellejero Sandra Hernandez Santiago Sequeiros Sonia Pulido |
Mexico (2 Artists)
Gaston Ortiz
Tony Sandoval
Poland (6 Artists)
Joanna Joka Karpowicz
Magdalena Minko
Wojciech Stefaniec
Bartosz Jekiel
Chris Chalik
Truscinski
Holland
Frans Mensink
Germany
Christoph Mueller
