Maurilio Manara was born on September 12th 1945 and grew into an intellectual, whimsical craftsman with a dazzling array of artistic skills ranging from architecture, product design, sumptuous painting and of course an elegant, refined, clear-clean line style with pen and ink. He is best known for his wry and always controversial sexually explicit material – although that’s more an indicator of our comics market and sad straitened society than any artistic obsession.

All of these periods are strongly represented in the books under review here. In 1984 and 1985 the Italian outfit which produced Popular Arts magazine Glamour Illustrated released a brace of fabulous art-books collecting and cataloguing the extant works of this maestro of mature modern sequential narrative (covering 1967 – 1985) which had limited distribution in Britain – despite the best efforts of specialist importer Titan Distributors – and these tomes are long past due for revision and reissuing…

Milo Manara (Luson, Olaszország, 1945 – ) képregényrajzoló. Az 1970-es évek végétől politikai és erotikus elemeket is ötvöző munkáival újította meg az olasz kaland-képregényt. Bár képregényei nagy részét saját maga írja, dolgozott együtt Federico Fellinivel, Pedro Almodóvarral, Alejandro Jodorowskyval, Neil Gaimannel és Hugo Prattal is.

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