Milo Manara

Milo Manara was born in Italy in 1945. Equally accomplished as an artist and a writer, he initially established himself as a leading figure worldwide in realistic erotic comics before gaining recognition as one of the great masters of the Ninth Art.

Among his many works are a 1974 adaptation of Boccaccio's The Decameron, the Giuseppe Bergman saga, which began in 1978, Le Déclic (1983), Le Parfum de l'invisible (1985), as well as Un Été Indien and El Gaucho, two graphic novels created in collaboration with his friend and mentor Hugo Pratt.

Together with the renowned Italian filmmaker and screenwriter Federico Fellini, Manara created two graphic albums, Voyage à Tulum (1990) and Le Voyage de G. Mastorna (1996). Manara is also an exceptional illustrator, as demonstrated by his beautifully produced art books, including Peintre et Modèle.

In 2004, he published the first volume of the provocative series Borgia, written by Alejandro Jodorowsky, which would eventually comprise four volumes.

In 2015, Manara fulfilled a long-held ambition by embarking on an ambitious two-volume project dedicated to the famous painter Caravaggio (Le Caravage), for whom he has boundless admiration.

In 2019, he celebrated fifty years of his career with Sublimer le réel, an extensive retrospective exploring every aspect of his artistic work. In 2020, Glénat published Passion Femmes, an anthology of drawings devoted to one of his favorite subjects: women.

In 2022, the artist's autobiography was published, offering a wealth of fascinating anecdotes from his long and prolific career. That same year, Manara collaborated with Pedro Almodóvar, illustrating an early text by the celebrated filmmaker entitled Le Feu aux entrailles.

In 2023, an anniversary edition of Le Déclic was released to celebrate forty years since the original publication of this iconic graphic novel.

That same year, Manara began adapting Umberto Eco's masterpiece The Name of the Rose (Le Nom de la Rose) into a graphic novel, before illustrating Le Trompettiste, a work inspired by the life of musician and soldier Giovanni Martini.