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- 1 2 3 Simone Castaldi. Drawn and Dangerous: Italian Comics of the 1970s and 1980s. University Press of Mississippi, 2010. ISBN 978-1-60473-749-3.
- ↑ Galeeva, O; Lousa, T; Almeida, F (2018). "Guido Crepax – Valentina – The Shape of Her Time". Art&Sensorium. 5 (2): 49–58. doi:10.33871/23580437.2018.5.2.49-58. ISSN 2358-0437.
- ↑ Gino Moliterno (ed.), Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture, Routledge, 2002: "comics".
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