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And, as Antonio Crepax observed in the Crepax Archives, '[The cartoonist,] covered by the authority of classics, ventures into territories of eroticism that up to now he had only dared to touch.'","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49744125067537,"sku":"NGR9781683965664","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1683965663.jpg?v=1750800817"},{"product_id":"complete-crepax-erotic-stories-part-2-book-guido-crepax-9781683968948","title":"The Complete Crepax: Erotic Stories Part 2","description":"This volume of Fantagraphics' ambitious series reprinting all of Guido Crepax's most significant comics is the second of two volumes featuring Crepax's comics adaptations from the literary erotica canon. This volume contains Crepax's longest graphic novel - 'Story of O.' A woman finds fulfillment when she subsumes her identity by sexually submitting to a secret society. 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