March 5, 2015
Bundled Extra: Fantagraphics Launches A 10-Book Guido Crepax Series In November
This almost passed by my radar without comment, but the fact that
Fantagraphics is doing a 10-book series with Guido Crepax -- gone now about a dozen years -- is not only obviously news this site should be covering, I dream of a day when this kind of thing is the main focus of what all of us cover. It looks like these books will be on the high end of things, although $75 when a book is more than 440 pages long seems like a fitting price point, and as we're discovering there are cartoonists and projects that appeal to a smaller audience willing to pay a premium and don't have to be priced in order to expand the medium.
The team of people working on these is Manuel EspÃrito Santo, Paul Gravett and Tim Pilcher. I'm not sure who's catching this from the Fantagraphics end, but my hunch is that Gary is coordinating and they'll work with an in-house designer. That's a hunch, though; I'll change it if I get better information. The Crepax heirs will apparently be involved in the supplementary material.
Crepax interests me more for the approach to the human form and his sometimes-use of really baroque page layouts more than as someone with whose erotic imagination I'm taken. I do see his influence more than I used to. There was a hefty section of Crepax books in the Fantagraphics library when I was working there in the mid-'90s, which suggests he was of interest to longtime company co-owner Kim Thompson. I'm always happy when Fantagraphics indicates its continuing interest in European comics.
One fact in that press release that kind of surprised me is that apparently none of the English-language Crepax books are in print. The market for erotic comics certainly isn't what is was 20 years ago.
Crepax: Dracula, Frankenstein, And Other Horror Stories will arrive in November.
posted 10:15 pm PST |
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