The Story of O
THE STORY OF O
- written by Pauline REAGE
- Illustrated by Guido CREPAX
The classic is back! Pauline Reage’s classic of submission and bondage shocked the world when it came out in the fifties. The great Italian erotic comics artist Crepax then adapted it into comics in the mid-seventies. Eurotica started with this book and sold tens of thousands of copies in a multi-volume edition. The story of a beautiful Parisian fashion photographer who, out of love for her man, is willingly blindfolded, chained, whipped, branded, pierced, and taken by many men in all ways. O is one of the all-time great classics of erotic literature and Crepax’ adaptation stands equally as one of the great classics of erotic comics. Out of print for some years, it is now brought back in a beautiful, library-worthy omnibus edition with gold stamped jacket and cloth.
- "What's shocking about Story of O is just how shocking it really is. You would think that in our pornified culture, that a novel scandalous in 1954 might appear quaint today. But no. Aury delivers the hard stuff straight on, and it's just as potent now as it was back then."
- -Sasha Watson, Slate
- "Top of 2009."
- -Publishers Weekly
- “From the very first page, it is apparent why THE STORY OF O is recognized as Crepax’s finest work. The fine, sharp pencils turn each panel into a vintage etching. Some are fractured panels, giving the effect of seeing these sexual acts in a cracked mirror, and others are overlapping, yet all are uniquely visceral and stimulating. This is not a story of men abusing women or women feeling weak, this is a story of willful submission. O makes her choice and revels in it, even introducing other women to this world."
- -Comics Waiting Room
- “First of all, the Eurotica imprint of NBM Publishing has done a beautiful job of packaging this book together.
- O is never less than always beautifully sexual. Crepax makes sure that her sexual beauty draws the reader’s eye even when the heart or mind might want to pull away from the events that are unfolding.
- The beauty of Crepax’s art somehow makes it palatable and I found it to be something I couldn’t put down…"
- -Ain't It Cool News
- "The story stands the test of time, partly because it is a catalog of classic pornographic and Sadean tropes (Susan Sontag called The Story of O "meta-pornography")... Crepax knew the power of suggestion... The true selling point of this edition of The Story of O is the production. A solid, very reasonably priced standalone volume."
- -Sequential Tart
- “Guido Crepax, the great pioneer of sensual graphic comics, uses multi-paneled pages to give the impression that you are peeping through a keyhole into O’s world of SM submission. She gives herself up to bondage, humiliation, sex with multiple partners, sodomy, and even gets branded, all because it is the desire of her lover. This hardcover edition is a real collectors’ item."
- -Skin Two
81/2 x 11, 176pp., B&W jacketed hardcover, $24.95,
ISBN 978-1-56163-573-3 See also [ The Story of O ]
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