Leone Frollo

Mona Street - The Pool Tournament, 1988 pencil and ink on thin cardboard 28.5 x 38 cm Original comic art created by Frollo for "The billiard tournament," his Mona's erotic adventure published on page 1 in the volume Mona Street 1: The Secret Books of Glamor by Glamor International in 1988. Published in France in the same year with the title "Le tournoi de billard," it marks the consecration of Frollo in the Olympus of author-level erotic comics world. We are in Boston in the 1920s, Mona Street is a shrewd girl recently out of college, soft curves candidly flaunted, an innocent face with an ironic look and a faint smile on her lips. Mona Street is a normal English name, but if you think that Leone Frollo is Venetian then the playful verbal misunderstanding becomes intuitive. The mischievous wink is already there in the name, therefore, but all the stories of Mona Street are underpinned by enveloping eroticism, ingeniously narrated by the author who, with a soft and voluptuous line in pencil or ink, has traced a very different character from the other "comic book heroines" who are almost always under the thumb of men: Mona has a false naive personality who makes fun of everyone, sometimes becoming a vindicator of her own sex.