Maurilio Manara (; born 12 September 1945), known professionally as Milo Manara, is an Italian comic book writer and artist.
Career
After architecture and painting studies, he made his comics debut in 1969 drawing for Genius, a fumetti neri series of pocket books from publisher Furio Vanio in the wake of the popularity of Kriminal and Satanik. In 1970, he illustrated for the magazine Terror, and starting in 1971 drew the erotic series Jolanda de Almaviva written by Francisco Rubino, issued in small format by publisher Erregi. Joining the youth magazine ', he worked with Rubino, Carlo Barbieri, Mino Milani and Silverio Pisú. With Pisú Manara launched the publications ' and ' in 1974 and the series ', and with writer Mino Milani the series ' in 1975. Manara and Pisú later went on to publish Lo Scimmiotto (The Ape) along the story of the Chinese Monkey King in Alter Linus in 1976, and with Alfredo Castelli, L'Uomo delle Nevi (The Snowman) in 1978.
He was profiled in the 2011 documentary film Derailments (Deragliamenti).
In 2013 he started to do low print variant covers for issues of Marvel comic books. In 2014, Manara's variant cover for Spider-Woman #1 was widely criticized for putting the character in a pose that was deemed over-sexualized and oddly proportioned by many. Defenders of Manara highlighted that this was a rare collector's variant cover, reflective of his art style for those familiar with him. The piece later sold for over £37,000 at auction in 2020.
Awards
- 1978: Yellow Kid and for an Italian artist
- 1995: U Giancu's Prize, International Cartoonists Exhibition
- 1998: Harvey Awards: Inducted into the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame
- 2004: Eisner Award, with various artists for Best Anthology, for The Sandman: Endless Nights
Bibliography
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! Original title
! English title
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! Remarks
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| Jolanda de Almaviva – La Figlia del Mare
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| 1971
| written by Francesco Rubino
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| La parola alla giuria
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| 1975
| written by Mino Milani
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| Alessio, Il Borghese Rivoluzionario
| Alessio
| 1975
| written by Silverio Pisu
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| Lo scimmiotto
| The Ape
| 1976
| written by Silverio Pisu
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| Un uomo un'avventura: L'uomo delle nevi
| The Snowman
| 1978
| written by Alfredo Castelli
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| HP e Giuseppe Bergman
| <!--longtitle: The Great Adventure:--> HP and Giuseppe Bergman
| 1978
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| Le avventure asiatiche di Giuseppe Bergman
|<!--longtitle: Perchance to Dream:--> The Indian Adventures of Giuseppe Bergman
| 1980
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| L'uomo di carta, o Quattro dita
| The Paper Man
| 1982
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| L'ultimo tragico giorno di Gori Bau e Callipigia Sister
| The Last Tragic Day of Gori Bau & The Callipygian Sister
| 1982
|originally in Frigidaire #25, translation in Shorts and Manara Erotica Volume One
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| Tutto ricominciò con un'estate Indiana
| Indian Summer
| 1983
| with Hugo Pratt
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| Il gioco
| Click
| 1983
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| Il diario di Sandra F.
| The Diaries/Diary of Sandra F.
| 1985
| translation in Heavy Metal #199503 and Manara Erotica Volume Two
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| Il profumo dell'invisibile
| Butterscotch
| 1986
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| Candid camera
| Hidden Camera
| 1988
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| L'apparenza inganna
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| 1988
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| Viaggio a Tulum
| Trip to Tulum
| 1989
| with Federico Fellini
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| L'arte della sculacciata
| The Art of Spanking
| 1989
| written by Jean-Pierre Enard
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| Le avventure africane di Giuseppe Bergman
| An Author in Search of Six Characters <!--longtitle: The African Adventures of Giuseppe Bergman Part 1--> and Dies Irae <!--longtitle: The African Adventures of Giuseppe Bergman Part 2-->
| 1990
| Published as a serial in Heavy Metal Magazine (1984-1985)
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| Breakthrough
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| 1990
| Written by Neil Gaiman
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| Il gioco 2
| Click 2
| 1991
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| El Gaucho
| El Gaucho
| 1991
| with Hugo Pratt
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| Il sogno di Oengus
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| 1991
| written by Giordano Berti
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| Il viaggio di G. Mastorna detto Fernet
|The Voyage of G. Mastorna
| 1992
| with Federico Fellini
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| La feu aux entrailles
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| 1993
| with Pedro Almodóvar
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| Il gioco vol.3
| Click 3
| 1994
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| Seduzioni
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| 1994
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| Storie brevi
| Shorts
| 1995
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| I viaggi di Gulliver, o Gulliveriana
| Gulliveriana or Gullivera
| 1995
| based on text by Jonathan Swift
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| Kamasutra
| Manara's Kama Sutra
| 1997
| based on text by Vatsyayana
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| Star, Starlettes e Baguettes
| Fantasies
| 1997
| In L'Echo des Savanes 1997 & Pin-Up Art English in Heavy Metal #199903
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| Ballata in si bemolle
| Fatal Rendezvous
| 1997
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| Appuntamento fatale
| Rendezvous in B-Flat
| 1997
|translation printed in Manara Erotica Volume One
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| L'asino d'oro
| The Golden Ass
| 1999
| based on text by Apuleius
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| <!--longtitle: A riveder le stelle - -->Le avventure metropolitane di Giuseppe Bergman
| <!--longtitle: To See the Stars: -->The Urban Adventures of Giuseppe Bergman
| 1999
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| Bolero
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| 1999
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| Tre ragazze nella rete
| www.
| 2000
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| Rivoluzione
| Revolution
| 2000
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| Il gioco vol.4
| Click 4
| 2001
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| Il profumo dell'invisibile 2
| Butterscotch 2
| 2001
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| Le donne di Manara
| Women of Manara
| 2001
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| Memory
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|2001
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| Fuga da Piranesi
| Piranese: The Prison Planet
| 2002
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| Il pittore e la modella
| The Model
| 2002
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| Pin-up art
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| 2002
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| Aphrodite
| Aphrodite, Book 1
| 2003
| written by Pierre Louÿs
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| Donne e motori
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| 2003
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| Fellini
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| 2003
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| L'odissea di Bergman
| The Odyssey of Giuseppe Bergman
| 2004
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| I Borgia – La conquista del papato
| Borgia 1: Blood for the Pope
| 2004
| with Alejandro Jodorowsky
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| The Sandman: Endless Nights
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| 2004
| written by Neil Gaiman; Manara illustrated one chapter, "What I've Tasted of Desire"
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| I Borgia vol.2 – Il potere e l'incesto
| Borgia 2: Power and Incest
| 2006
| with Alejandro Jodorowsky
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| Quarantasei
|<!--apparently not yet translated: 46 -->
| 2006
| with Valentino Rossi
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| Gli Occhi di Pandora
| Pandora's Eyes
| 2007
| written by Vincenzo Cerami
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| I Borgia vol. 3
| Borgia 3: Flames from Hell
| 2008
| with Alejandro Jodorowsky
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| X-Men: Ragazze in fuga
| X-Women
| 2009
| written by Chris Claremont
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|I Borgia vol. 4 - Tutto è Vanità
|Borgia 4: All is Vanity
|2010
|with Alejandro Jodorowsky
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|Caravaggio vol. 1 - La Tavolozza e la Spada
|Caravaggio 1 - The Palette and the Sword
|2015
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|Caravaggio vol. 2 - La Grazia
|Caravaggio 2 - The Grace
|2018
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Adaptations
- Series
- Click (1997)
- City Hunters (2006, animated TV series created by Gastón Gorali & Alberto Stagnaro)
- Films
- Le Déclic (1985)
- Le Parfum de l'invisible (1997 IMDb)
- La Légende de Parva (2003)
- The Erotic Misadventures of the Invisible Man (2003 IMDb)
Statue
thumb|left|Statue of [[Brigitte Bardot in Saint-Tropez, based on a watercolor by Milo Manara.]]
A statue of Brigitte Bardot created by Milo Manara was donated in 2017 to the city of Saint-Tropez by the Millon Foundation. It was inaugurated on 28 September 2017 by Bernard d'Ormale, the actress's husband, and Jean-Pierre Tuveri, mayor of Saint-Tropez.
The project was initiated in 2013 when auctioneer Alexandre Millon, president of the auction house of the same name, invited Milo Manara to devote a series of works to Brigitte Bardot. The artist then produced 27 watercolors intended to be reproduced and marketed as pigment prints :
"I proposed several projects, and it was Brigitte Bardot herself who selected her preferred one", the artist said.
Produced according to the project chosen by the actress by Adolfo Agolini, from the Mariani foundry in Pietrasanta, Italy, in collaboration with Manara, the statue is installed on Place Blanqui in front of the .
During his career, Manara has depicted numerous figures, including historical characters—most notably the Borgias in a series created with Alejandro Jodorowsky—as well as people from his own circle, such as Federico Fellini and Hugo Pratt. Brigitte Bardot had not allowed an artist to portray her since 1969, when the painter and sculptor Aslan chose her to embody the features of Marianne, the symbolic figure of the French Republic.
See also
- Italian comics
References
Sources
- Manara publications in (A SUIVRE) Pilote, L'Écho des Savanes and BoDoï – BDoubliées
- Manara albums – Bedetheque
- Manara publications in English – Europeancomics.net
External links
- Milo Manara biography on Lambiek Comiclopedia
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- Manara Eurotica catalog NBM Graphic Novels publisher