Who is Milo Manara?

Milo Manara is one of the world’s greatest comic-book artists. After architecture and painting studies, he made his debut in 1969 drawing for Genius, a Fumetti neri series of pocket books from publisher Furio Vanio. In the Seventies he became famous with works like Lo Scimmiotto (The Ape), presented in Alterlinus, and H.P. e Giuseppe Bergman (H.P. and Giuseppe Bergman), serialised from 1978. Following this, Manara went on to publish an uninterrupted series of international successes: L’uomo di carta (The Paper Man), L’uomo delle nevi (The Snowman), Il gioco (Click), Il profumo dell’invisibile (Butterscotch), Candid Camera (Hidden Camera), and Kamasutra (Manara’s Kama Sutra) are just a few of these.
His career has been influenced by the encounter with other great artists such as Hugo Pratt, Federico Fellini, Pedro Almodóvar, Luc Besson, Alejandro Jorodowsky and Vincenzo Cerami. With Pratt, Manara has created works like Tutto ricominciò con un’estate indiana (Indian Summer) and El gaucho; with Fellini, Viaggio a Tulum (Trip to Tulum) and Il viaggio di G. Mastorna detto Fernet; with Almodóvar, the book Seduzioni, and with Besson the television campaign for Chanel n. 5; as well as the very recent 46 in collaboration with the GP motorcycle champion Valentino Rossi, and Pandora with texts by Vincenzo Cerami.
At present he is working on the fourth book of the Borgia series written by Alejandro Jodorowsky and on the graphic novel Women of the X-Men for Marvel Comics.

Manara’s most representative works
Manara is considered the undisputed master of eroticism in drawings. His most important works, never vulgar and always refined, are published in Italy by Mondadori and by leading publishers throughout the world (Glenat, Casterman, Planeta DeAgostini, Panini Comics). His most successful comics have been adapted for the cinema – Il Gioco (Click), Il profumo dell’invisibile (Butterscotch) – and advertising campaigns. A comprehensive collection of his entire work in graphic novel format has been released by the largest Italian financial newspaper (Il Sole 24Ore) to great critical and commercial acclaim.