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What is it like - a bodily space with an important locus of your existence? At what point do the planes of the male and female intersect, giving rise to pleasure, dependence, disgust and responsibility? An unfocused manifesto about the clitoris is how the Danish newspaper Information calls Rikke Viladsen's book The Tattoo Artist and the Clitoris. The text invites readers into the world of the protagonist's dreams, in which flesh and culture become inseparable. Attempts to cognise one's own identity, especially sexual identity, are not yet bold, first, subdued, but they mature into clearly gender stereotypes. The author's images are sometimes harsh, ugly, and far from the ideal image of a man or woman. The apotheosis of the heroine's final enlightenment occurs in complete solitude, far from people and passions. Words and graphics complement each other exhaustively. The feminist prism makes it clear: who is a woman as an object of contemplation, admiration, «use» and a sub-object of reproduction. How many of them are children born, thrown into the dustbin of history at the cost of female pleasure and male self-sufficiency?

«Clitoris and the Tattoo Artist» — — is a story-feeling, a flash of trembling and unadorned energy of a woman that passes through, leaving a powerful emotional imprint. A story in which the text and visuals are like a single living organism that breathes with you. This is feminist poetry that is not afraid of the disgusting, not ashamed of the bizarre or ambiguous, because it speaks to you honestly."— Ana More

Danish comic artist Rikke Villadsen has gained some notoriety in the world since Fantagraphics released two of her graphic novels in 2018 and 2019 - «The Sea» and «Cowboy» respectively and is apparently preparing this one. The Tattooist and the Clitoris is Rikke's third major work and it is her best, strangest and most incisive book. A woman faints on a harbour pier and gives birth to a placenta-like balloon, which grows into a broccoli tree while she is unconscious. And this is just the beginning. Villadsen's surreal imagination contains horror and humour in equal measure, the atmosphere is reminiscent of David Lynch, and the style is reminiscent of the work of German comic artist Anke Feuchtenberger, but Rikke speaks about sexuality and motherhood in her own unique way.