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Paolo Serpieri
Italian artist best known by the Druuna, the most amazing science and erotic fiction series that has ever been made. Eight Drunna chapters were sold in more than a million copies in total.
Franco Saudelli
Franco Saudelli is mostly known as an artist of erotic comics. However, since 1977, Saudelli’s work appeared in several Italian and French magazines, like Lanciostory, Orient-Express, Libération and Charlie Mensuel. In the 1980s, he started making short erotic comics for the magazines Comic Art, Glamour and Diva, sometimes in collaboration with Giovanna Casotto. Bondage scenes play a big part in the stories, for example in ‘La Bionda’, published in album format by Dargaud. Saudelli uses a fluent, elegant, sophisticated style.
Eric Stanton
Russian of origin, Eric Stanton was born in New York. He studied at the School of Visual Arts and made his debut as an illustrator and comic artist in 1947 with Irwing Klaw, a publisher of sadomasochistic paraphernalia. Proving himself a master of the bondage genre, Stanton created an impressive number of stories, such as ‘The Nightmares of Diana’, ‘Marie’s Extraordinary Adventure’ and ‘Phyllis in Danger’. At the same time he worked for magazine La Revue Érotique, using pseudonyms like Savage and John Bee. In the early 1960s, he became an independent illustrator, often working for rich clients who ordered his work for private use. His work has been published in numerous European magazines, like Bédé X, Blue and Kiss Comix.
Barney Steel
Barney Steel is the comic artist of ‘Armageddon’, an underground comic which started in 1972. It was published by Last Gasp and ran for three issues. ‘Armageddon’ presented an erotic tale set in a fantasy galaxy.
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