2019: The third volume of Fantagraphics' Guido Crepax's comics collects the 'Baba Yaga' storyline (which recasts the witch of folklore as a lesbian villainess) along with adaptations of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Turn of the Screw, and a genre take on Edgar Allan Poe. The oversized format and exacting reproduction perfectly showcase Crepax's virtuosic composition, design, and draftsmanship, as well the boundless visual imagination.: The third volume of Fantagraphics' monumental collection of Guido Crepax's comics collects the 'Baba Yaga' storyline, which recasts the witch of folklore (it was adapted for the screen in 1973 starring Carroll Baker as the middle-aged, lesbian villainess). Under Baba Yaga's influence, a doll, Annette, comes to life
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