What do you think of the pornographic comics by Italian artists Guido Crepax or Milo Manara?
I am not huge on Crepax, there is something a bit necrotic and gaunt and skeletal about his women. That’s just a matter of taste, though I’m not too convinced by his storytelling, more than by the looks of his women. I think his art is perfectly good, but he doesn’t really do it for me. Manara, again he’s a fine draughtsman, but all of his women have the same blow-job mouth that puts me off, it’s characterless. Which is the exact opposite of what we’ve tried to do with Lost Girls. We’ve tried to make these people into people first, and sexual crash dummies second. There are some very good European artists whose work I’d admire if it was single images or short sequences in Glamour Magazine, that would occasionally be good, but I’d sometimes find that, if I read those pieces in translation, they would be limited by their excessive retreading of the artist’s own particular narrow band of sexual fantasy interests. Did you think that American graphic novels like Omaha the Cat Dancer or Doll
