Druuna
Druuna is an erotic science fiction and fantasy comic book character created by Italian cartoonist Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri, featured prominently in Metal Hurlant and Heavy Metal (censored versions) magazines. Druuna is the main character, and has starred in eight volumes of the Morbus Gravis series between 1985 and 2003. (See book list below.)
Style and content
The series is noteworthy for featuring explicit content in terms of both graphic violence and sex. Creatura, in fact, features near-totally explicit sexual penetration, and the three subsequent books feature totally uncensored penetration, but the series returned to a non-explicit depiction of penetration in such scenes with The Forgotten Planet. The main character is also featured in Serpieri's numerous sketchbooks, such as Obsession, Druuna X, Druuna X 2, Croquis, Serpieri Sketchbook, Serpieri Sketchbook 2 and The Sweet Smell of Woman. These books were successful, selling more than a million copies in twelve languages.
Most of Druuna's adventures revolve around a post-apocalyptic future, and the plot is often a vehicle for varied scenes of soft-core and hard-core pornography and sexual imagery.
Serpieri himself appears in many of the stories as the character Doc.
Character
In the album Druuna X, Serpieri asserts that he had styled Druuna as influenced by Valérie Kaprisky's appearance in the film "La Femme publique (film)" (1984) ("The Public Female)" but because he had drawn too many Western comics those days, she nevertheless incarnated with Native American facial features. She is frequently depicted as sparsely clothed or nude, and Serpieri's high quality renditions of Druuna are often reproduced as poster prints. In most cases, Druuna's role is that of a willing sexual object, submitting to sexual advances of all kinds with little or no complaint, other than the occasional sad pout, though more than once she has been raped in the stories (she's not a completely helpless victim however; in the first book she's seen kicking a would be rapist in the groin). Again in Druuna X, Serpieri claims that the character's approach to sexual pleasures is a challenge to Judeo-Christian morals on sexuality.
The character has also appeared in the 3D videogame Druuna: Morbus Gravis.
List of books
- Morbus gravis (1985)
- Druuna (1987)
- Creatura (1990)
- Carnivora (1992)
- Mandragora (1995)
- Aphrodisia (1997)
- The Forgotten Planet (2000)
- Clone (2003)
External links
- Official Druuna Homepage
http://www.lebdvore.com/druuna/avis_druuna.html- Ecofeminist Themes in Serpieri's Morbus Gravis article at Interdisciplinary Comics Studies
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