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The 1001 Nights of Scheherazade
The sexy classic fantastic tale brought to comics life without a single cut! The raunchiest nights have been chosen for your enjoyment, o, reader, by the agile hand of the one who did the Robinson Crusoe ribaldization. Except you will note how his art has gotten even more remarkably beautiful and sensuous. The heroine, condemned to death, is able to save her life every night by telling a spicy tale to the pasha. And lusciously spicy they are!
64 pages, Paperback
First published November 6, 2001
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Éric Maltaite
62 books1 followerÉric Maltaite est un dessinateur de bande dessinée belge, né le 23 février 1958 à Bruxelles. Il est le fils de Willy Maltaite, dit Will. Éric Maltaite réside en Espagne.
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October 10, 2020
This is a classic case of "good comics in unlikely places". I mean, the imprint is "Eurotica", so not much nuance as to what it is about. And YET...
The thing with 1001 Nights (or Arabian Nights), is that usually people rehash the more popular tales, like "Aladdin" or "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves". However, the 1001 Nights are, among other things, quite bold sexually, ranging from the sensually nuanced to the almost raunchy - a fact which, in popular, Disney-dominated culture, has been meticulously erased. This comic manages to collect and present some of the more steamy (and unexpectedly, quite complex) stories, without replacing the often playful sexuality with run-of-the-mill comic book pornography.
It is in no way perfect, falling prey to lack of space and a bit of retconning in order to fit modern sensibilities, but the art is beautiful and the result more daring and tasteful than anything that came out in the early '00s.
So we start off with the frame story of the 1001 Nights, "The Tale of King Shahryar and His Brother (Shah Zaman)", where Shahryar turns into a tyrannical ruler, leading Scheherazade to intervene and get the tales rolling.
The second tale is the main part of "The Fisherman and the Jinnee", as well as the nested tale of "The Enchanted Prince" (normally, the fisherman's tale includes another four, but they are largely independent of each other).
Finally (and quite stunningly, how Maltaite managed to fit them), we have "The Porter and The Three Ladies of Baghdad", as well as the three nested tales of the one-eyed Calenders. Of course, that leaves quite the mystery as to why the titular Three Ladies give a lashing to two female dogs, and then, a moment later, the lady of the house falls down and faints, her back a mess of lashes.
However, the whole of the Arabian Nights are in the public domain, so it's rather easy to fill in these gaps. More than anything, this comic captures the feel of mystery and eroticism of the original, perhaps a good starting point to get a reader interested in the endless riches of the whole.
The thing with 1001 Nights (or Arabian Nights), is that usually people rehash the more popular tales, like "Aladdin" or "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves". However, the 1001 Nights are, among other things, quite bold sexually, ranging from the sensually nuanced to the almost raunchy - a fact which, in popular, Disney-dominated culture, has been meticulously erased. This comic manages to collect and present some of the more steamy (and unexpectedly, quite complex) stories, without replacing the often playful sexuality with run-of-the-mill comic book pornography.
It is in no way perfect, falling prey to lack of space and a bit of retconning in order to fit modern sensibilities, but the art is beautiful and the result more daring and tasteful than anything that came out in the early '00s.
So we start off with the frame story of the 1001 Nights, "The Tale of King Shahryar and His Brother (Shah Zaman)", where Shahryar turns into a tyrannical ruler, leading Scheherazade to intervene and get the tales rolling.
The second tale is the main part of "The Fisherman and the Jinnee", as well as the nested tale of "The Enchanted Prince" (normally, the fisherman's tale includes another four, but they are largely independent of each other).
Finally (and quite stunningly, how Maltaite managed to fit them), we have "The Porter and The Three Ladies of Baghdad", as well as the three nested tales of the one-eyed Calenders. Of course, that leaves quite the mystery as to why the titular Three Ladies give a lashing to two female dogs, and then, a moment later, the lady of the house falls down and faints, her back a mess of lashes.
However, the whole of the Arabian Nights are in the public domain, so it's rather easy to fill in these gaps. More than anything, this comic captures the feel of mystery and eroticism of the original, perhaps a good starting point to get a reader interested in the endless riches of the whole.
September 27, 2025
Una divertida interpretación del clásico de la literatura. Pasas un par de horas divertidas. Lo recomiendo sin pretensiones.
August 15, 2012
I READ IT IN ROMANIAN LANGUAGE (EUSEBIU CAMILLAR TRANSLATION) a BEUTY!
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