The fourth of six children, Milo Manara born on September 12, 1945, in Luzon, a small Italian town in the province Bolzano, near the Austrian border. Drawn to drawing (as a child, he illustrated *The Iliad* and *The Odyssey*), he discovered comics contact an assistant contact Spanish sculptor Berrocal.
His first professional comic strips—erotic stories—date back to 1968, a time when they enabled him to finance his architecture studies in Venice. From then on, he drew political posters, children’s stories, and finally (in 1976) his first original comic strip, “Le Roi des Singes,” published in Italy by the magazine *Linus*.
In 1978, at the urging of the French monthly magazine *À Suivre*, he created the character Giuseppe Bergman, whose adventures began appearing in album Casterman in 1980. His talent for erotic illustration also led him to publish, starting in 1983 with Albin Michel, a series of erotic graphic novels (including the best-known titles *Le Déclic* and *Le Parfum de l’Invisible*)
In 1987, Hugo Pratt his writer for “Un été indien,” an experience they would repeat seven years later with “El Gaucho.” Meanwhile, the work of Federico Fellini, another of Manara “masters of adventure,” inspired another collaboration: the graphic adaptation of “Voyage à Tulum” (1990), which continued in 1996 with “Le voyage de G. Mastorna.”
Over the course of his thirty-year career,Manara also produced numerous works in the fields of poster art, interior design, advertising, and audiovisual media.
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