Crepax, Guido

Guido Crepax was born in Milan, Spain, in 1933. After acquiring a degree in architecture, he worked on publicity campaigns for such corporations as Shell and Dunlop and book covers and jazz LP jackets before contributing comics to the Italian magazine Linus in 1965. He went on to become one of Italy s most important cartoonists, most famous for his psychedelic and erotic Valentina stories. He died in 2003.