{"id":10459,"date":"2024-06-17T15:31:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T20:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=10459"},"modified":"2024-06-17T15:31:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T20:31:13","slug":"i-never-knew-guido-crepax-did-history-illustrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2024\/06\/17\/i-never-knew-guido-crepax-did-history-illustrations\/","title":{"rendered":"I never knew Guido Crepax did history illustrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nBecause my mother volunteers there, I have been frequenting the local church&#8217;s charity bookshop. One of the books I bought there the last time was a pop history volume I remember from my parents&#8217; bookcases, about the ancient Greeks, which I literally read until it fell apart as a child. Browsing through it to sate my nostalgia I found something surprising, a familiar looking signature in the two page illustration of Createan bull jumping:\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/wissewords\/Guido Crepax illustration 03.jpg\" width=\"859\" height=\"620\" alt=\"An illustration by Guido Crepax which shows the ancient Cretean sport of jumping over bulls\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nTucked away on the bottom left there it was: &#8220;G. Crepax&#8221;. In case you&#8217;re not as familiar with European comics, that&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lambiek.net\/artists\/c\/crepax.htm\">Guido Crepax<\/a>, the Italian cartoonist who is best known for, as the Lambiek Comiclopedia linked above calls it, &#8220;his depictions of elaborate and aesthetic erotic fantasies&#8221;. Once I noticed it was him it was quite obvious: compare the illustration above with the Shell advertisement shown on the Comiclopedia e.g. I bought two volumenes of the series (<cite>7000 Jaar Wereldgeschiedenis<\/cite>) and both have his illustrations. No actual credits are given in either but the style is unmistakeable. A really fun thing to discover some four decades later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because my mother volunteers there, I have been frequenting the local church&#8217;s charity bookshop. One of the books I bought there the last time was a pop history volume I remember from my parents&#8217; bookcases, about the ancient Greeks, which I literally read until it fell apart as a child. Browsing through it to sate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comix","category-posts-interesting-only-to-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10460,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10459\/revisions\/10460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}