New adventures of Europe's most famous comic heroine: Valentina. Her creator, Guido Crepax, significantly influenced the language of comics and was one of the first to work exclusively for an adult audience starting in the mid-1960s. With bold narrative leaps and his distinctive page architecture, he moves towards surrealism. And as Umberto Eco, an avid comic reader and analyst, noted, Crepax anticipated the stylistic devices of the Nouvelle Vague in film in the early 1960s by introducing innovative page layouts in comics that, similar to cinematic montage, fragmented the narrative into image snippets, close-ups, and details, even imitating camera movements. Valentina follows no rules; Valentina is pure pleasure, and Crepax has given her a form: the most beautiful body in comic history. The third volume contains works from the J.