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Giovanna Casotto
Italian female adult artist, known by the fact that she her attractive image appears in all her comics. Publishes regularly in the erotic Selen magazine. The most notable series is Bitch in Heat, which has been published in U.S. by Priaprism Press.
Guido Crepax
Guido Crepax was born in Milan in 1933. He studied at the School of Architecture at the University of Milan. After graduating, he made his debut in comics in 1959 when he contributed his work to Tempo Medico. He joined the new magazine Linus in 1965 with a fantasy comic, ‘Neutron’. This superhero comic featured a minor character, a reporter called Valentina, and she grew out to be Crepax’ big creation.
After ‘Valentina’, other titles followed, such as ‘L’Astronave Pirata’ (1968), ‘La Casa Matta’ (1969), ‘La Calata di Mac Similiano’ (1969), ‘Belinda’ and ‘Bianca’. Recurring themes were those of victimized girls, sadomasochism and violence. It is not surprising that Guido Crepax illustrated classic erotic stories like De Sade’s ‘Justine’, Pauline Réage’s ‘Histoire d’O’ and Sacher-Masoch’s ‘Venus in Furs’.
Guido Crepax drew delicate girls, many of them inspired by actress Louise Brooks, whom Crepax adored. His subtle, esthetic graphics have earned him fame all over the world. He died on 31 July, 2003, at the age of 70.
Fernando Caretta
Fernando Caretta is one of the top Italian comic-book artists, combining an animated style realistic backgrounds and characters 3D volume. He is known for his erotic comics, such as ‘Sur le Bout de la Langue’ from the ‘Selen’ series from publisher Glénat.
Silvio Cadelo
Before embarking on a career as a comics artist, Silvio Cadelo worked as an industrial designer, advertising professional, and an actor. Inspired by Moebius, with whom he later collaborated, Cadelo decided to move into comics in 1979. He drew his first stories for magazines like Linus, Alter and Frigidaire. He made his debut in France with ‘Skeol’ in 1981, followed by the portfolio ‘Strappi’.
He teamed up with the writer Alexandro Jodorowsky and created ‘Le Dieu Jaloux’ and ‘L’Ange Carnivore’, two stories later reprinted as ‘La Saga d’Alendor’. He joined the magazine À Suivre in 1987, where he continued the adventures of ‘Envie de Chien’, created two years earlier in Frigidaire. He also produced two erotic albums, ‘Perverse Alice’ and ‘La Fleur Amoureuse’, first published in L’Écho des Savanes. In 1993, he illustrated Jean-Pierre Andrevon’s ‘L’Homme aux Dinosaures’. A year later, he did ‘Les Plaisirs de Saturnin’ at Glénat.
In 1995, he illustrated ‘Les Fleurs Secrètes’, with an erotic text by Pierre Louÿs, published by Vertige Graphic. In that same year, he began a collaboration with the Japanese publisher Kodansha. Together with the writer Bettina Sand, he conceived the trilogy ‘Les Enfants de Lutèce’, and later ‘Sulis et Demi-Lune’.
COQ
French artist that’s known by very hard sex comics. As far as we know his books haven’t been published in America so far. His narrating and drawing style are best represented in Vicious Circle, Thy Spy and The Secretary. All titles except Flora’s Life are black and white.
Carlo
Carlo was the pseudonym used by the artist who drew several erotic and bondage cartoons during the 1930s. He illustrated several books, such as ‘Dressage’, ‘Bagne de Femmes’, ‘Servitude’, ‘Dolly, Esclave’, ‘Despotisme Feminin’, ‘Cuir & Fouet’, ‘Dolorès Amazone’, ‘Le Cuir Triomphant’, ‘La Madone du Cuir Verni’, ‘Esclavage’, ‘La Reine Cravache’ (all written by Alan Mac Clyde), ‘L’Inquisiteur Moderne’, ‘Sévérités Perverses’ (all by Juana Lapaz), ‘Le Dominateur’ (all by Aimé Van Rod), ‘Cinglantes Épreuves’, ‘Le Chateua des Cuisants Souvenirs’, ‘Brulant Plaisirs’ (all by Desiré Van Rowel) and many other titles in the sado-masochistic genre.
Giorgio Cambiotti
Giorgio Cambiotti was one of the pioneers of Italian erotic comics. He best known as the creator of ‘Jacula’, the heroine vampire and main character of around 100 adventures from 1969 to 1982. The comic also reached a French and German audience. Cambiotti has also drawn the ‘La Donna di Satana’ and ‘Yasmine’ series.
CHRIS! of England (Chris Howard)
Born in the mid-1960s in Italy, he emigrated to the UK in the 1970s and established himself as a freelance fetish fantasy and glamour cartoonist, working for numerous publications worldwide, from the seedy to the famous: Leg Show to Penthouse and beyond.
