Georges Pichard - Marie-Gabrielle de Saint-Eutrope - 2009

The great pornographic classic by George Pichard, reissued in the 1000 Leaves collection, a sublime showcase of ALL the comics.
He is simply one of the greatest. But also one of the least known. Illustrator for Wolinski on the famous Paulette, a pillar of Charlie Mensuel, professor at the School of Applied Arts and graphic mentor to David B, Joann Sfar, and Annie Goetzinger, Georges Pichard gave flesh to erotism and pornography with an elegance hardly seen. Published in the late 70s by Éditions Glénat — and immediately banned for the carnal power of his drawing and the raw violence of his storyline — Marie-Gabrielle de Saint Eutrope, here completed by Marie-Gabrielle in Orient, offers in nearly 300 pages the most beautiful posthumous tribute imaginable to a formidable creator whom the evolution of attitudes is finally allowing to rediscover objectively. Marie-Gabrielle de Saint Eutrope is to comics what The 120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade is to literature...

Marie-Gabrielle de Saint-Eutrope, followed by Marie-Gabrielle in Orient, Glénat Editions, 2009.