Pinocchia [Paperback]

Leroi (Author), Gibrat (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1996

Poor Gepetto. Alone and horny for a beautiful woman. What if he carved the woman of his dreams into a big puppet? Better than nothing... but then, wait, taking her acts like magic in making her real! Lushly rendered by the Frenchman Gibrat, this sexy spoof of the classic tale has poor innocent Pinocchia taken by many a cynic. And when she lies, guess what becomes bigger...

Product Details

• Paperback: 50 pages
• Publisher: Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing; 1st English Language Edition edition (December 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1561631698
• ISBN-13: 978-1561631698
• Product Dimensions: 11.4 x 8.6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #178,076 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A sexy twist on a classic fairy tale, November 6, 2000

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Dr. Gnome (PR) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pinocchia (Paperback)

Pinocchia is a charming adult graphic-novel which puts a spin on the traditional Pinocchio fairy-tale.

First of all, to describe this Pinocchia one must first compare it to another artist with a similar style: Manara. Gibrat & Leroi weave a fine book with sexy art, enjoyable story, and a lovely fairy-tale heroine all rolled up in one package. The art is quite nice, and although the book is not fully explicit (like a Manara)the scenes are well executed (albeit brief). There is also a great deal of humor which is properly pulled off and won't leave the reader hanging (unlike Manara, on occasions). Another pleasant touch is that this story is (at times) read with a narrarator perspective, adding to the fairy-tale illusion.

Overall, it's a worthy addition to the graphic novel section.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great little graphic novel, April 4, 2005

By 

Steve Vander - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pinocchia (Paperback)

A full-color adult graphic novel.

Like Milo Manara's "Gullivera" (female Gulliver) and Eric Maltaite's "Robinsonia" (female Robinson Crusoe; a rather good book, that I haven't been able to acquire yet), Pinocchia is an erotic tale based on an earlier story (Pinocchio, the wooden boy).

Galipettois an old man living alone in the deep woods when he is inspired to make a wooden female. Luckily for him, Galipettois a first-class carpenter that makes his living carving toys. Using a tree that collapsed into his shack, Galipetto creates a wooden woman. After he is finished, he takes the little wooden woman for a test drive, and unknown to him, this causes the woman to come alive. Galipetto learns about this amazing transformation when Pinocchia, nude but for shoes and an apron, brings Galipetto breakfast and asks if he is her papa.

Some local police stop by and ask if anything is damaged after the storm, to find a nearly nude woman rushing from the back room, and hugging her "papa." The police take them to jail.

While in jail, Pinocchia, nude but for a mutating coat (one minute a green coat, the next a green dress), ends up going down on one of the men there in jail. As the police do not have anything on Pinocchia, they release her, but keep Galipetto in jail. So, the barely clothed woman wanders down the street and is picked up by a man in a car.

The man takes her to a party, where a woman helps Pinocchia change clothes (and who ends up fondling Pinocchia). While the women are otherwise occupied, two men peer into the room, and eventually lead Pinocchia away from the party and, at the first opportunity, prostitute her. The rascals run off with Pinocchia's pay, and without leaving her any money to pay the hotel bill. While Pinocchia begins to "pay" for the room with her mouth, the hotel owner's wife runs in and spanks Pinocchia with a wooden object. Pinocchia flees the hotel.

In the meantime, Galipetto is released and he wanders along in his night clothes, attempting to return home. Along the way he ends up at the same house Pinocchia wandered up to and entered after she fled the angry wife. While his creation is screwing around with a man up on the second floor, Galipetto is offered the position of gardener. The gardener was just fired and thrown off the premises for sleeping with the maid.

Running away from an attempted forced and unwanted bath, Galipetto runs across his Pinocchia, who has reverted to wooden status. Galipetto "revives" her, is caught . . . and the tail continues its twists and turns for another 25 pages (and in those 25 pages? visit to a circus, underwater brothel on a submarine . . .).

In the Pinocchio story, there was a certain punishment rendered upon him when he lied (his nose grew). Well, in this case, when Pinocchia lies, her breasts grow (and she doesn't lie, apparently, until after page 35; though, at one point she purposely lies to save herself in the water, and ends up with massive breasts).

Overall, a very good little graphic novel, with great artwork and a good pace. The book includes a small amount of bondage, a small amount of whipping, and a certain amount of public nudity . . .The kind of book that leads one to want to read more by these authors, but unfortunately, I haven't found anything else by them.