Born in Venice, Leone Frollo (1931 - 2018) has always lived in the neighborhood of the Rialto. He began professionally drawing cartoons in 1948 with a western called Sui Grandi Laghi ("On Great Lakes"). Ten years later, he followed studies in architecture, and began a collaboration with the English agency, Fleetway, illustrating war stories. He went successively into the genre of the fumetto rosa (romantic comics) with a series for men, and, over the years crossed over into other genres such as fantasy and horror.
His Forte
But it was in erotic illustration that Frollo found his forte. In the 70s he began a long collaboration with editors publishing adult comics with titles such as Lucifera, Biancaneve (Snow White), and Naga. Frollo has always been fascinated by the power of his women, and most of his work features powerful, wily, and very seductive heroines.
Maestro of the Rialto
Also he produced Casino, the backdrop of which was a Parisian bordello in 1898, and was on the experience of the girls of Madame Con. The decor, atmosphere and the costumes of the first decade of the 20th century fascinated the artist and he illustrated the story of the life of Mona Street, concentrating on the erotic adventures of a young American lady, just graduated from college in Boston. After this artistic endeavour, for which he has particular affection, the Maestro of the Rialto abandoned comics to dedicate himself totally to erotic work.
Elegant Eroticism
His illustrations on paper, with watercolors, pencil and pastels testify to an elegant eroticism, which owes much to the retro atmosphere and to the allusion to the belle époque of refined decadence of a Venice that no longer exists.
Below you can find some of the illustrations of volume 3 from "The Blue Glamour Book", a series featuring unreleased erotic work by Frollo focused on sapphic lovemaking. This volume was issued by Fantasex on May 1997.
Fig.1. Cover of The Blue Glamour Book No.3 (1997)
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