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Milo Manara?

(PROGRAMME thousand words. 3 DECEMBER 2009)

About ten or twelve years, with a situation still very economical, elegant and fellow student, ie very poor, some half-crazed editor decided to publish the complete works of Manara Maurillo, widely known by Milo Manara. This writer, like any good addict hoarding and collecting, and despite great effort, said the acquisition weekly until the kiosk where he bought them from closed overnight without warning. Through the glass of the booth could see who had reserved copies and could not collect, for lack of money, I must say. The fact is that I was about to attack that place and collect the back issues, but I did not. And that was the first loss of Milo Manara.

Who does not know, about who should introduce Milo Manara. More than biography interested in knowing the work of one of the great cartoonists Italians, known for drawing the most erotic women (some call lubricate) the comic. But stay only in the image of an author is to relegate Manara erotic quality to specialist without initiative. According to her own statements about eroticism and adventure: "The Adventure as ethics, as a culture, as a way of life. The adventure is not passively follow the events. The adventure is self-determination", "Sex is a key component of culture . When fully live your sexuality, you break with the social brutalization. And when drawing erotic scenes is not free. I think that expresses one of the essential dimensions in man and is one of the objectives of the adventure. "

is because Italian intellectuals of the '70s, heavily influenced by ideas of breaking and fighting the system, communism, Maoism, the ideas of May 68, considered by all the political struggle, social struggle and sexual liberation. And no wonder, because the Italian company, but secular and democratic, a priori, since the 40's, was heavily influenced by the Catholic moral doctrine and the Vatican. And the adventure, at least the fictional, and sex, perceptions and practices constituted a form of argumentative evasion to official standards.

Manara, born in Bolzano, close to Austria and known locality for mathematics students to name a theorem, although those who enunciated, Bernard Bolzano was Prague, discovered a child's natural talent for drawing and illustration, so at first tries to devote himself to painting, but fails live it and begins working at a toy factory and as an aide to English sculptor Berrocal who lived in Verona. He then studied architecture at the University of Venice and in contact with Maoist organizations and cultural movements, as part of an artistic group.

All this training and influences are important to understand the dimension of artistic, intellectual and argumentative Milo Manara prints in his comics. Because Milo Manara not begin to attach importance to age 23, when he discovers Barbarella and adult comics. From that moment in comics Manara is a way of living and to exploit his artistic vocation. His early years as a comic series by children passes on thematic issues and pseudoerótica police.

"Monkey King" is her first major work, for many a masterpiece, in collaboration with writer Silverio Pisu. This work is based on a fantastic work of the sixteenth century China and tells the story of a humanoid, king of a people that has conquered apes and that immortality resignation to its rightful place in heaven to return to his village. The Monkey King embodies the revolutionary spirit and the courage to abandon the gentrification to be free. From an aesthetic standpoint, the work is wonderful, because it combines the oriental fine pattern which is based Manara its own personla and character. Although there are those who prefer the Chinese versions illustrated by saying that the comic book is much dirtier than the illustrations in which they claim is based. Package failure, because, and this is a great work, Manara not limited to copy and tell the original novel and make rubbings of Art, but that translates the novel to the story and provides original and different elements to illustrations, from the composition, dialogue and action.

It is from this point that the real race begins as a comic Manara quality. His meticulous and very clean design, its sense of space and detail, making it the ideal artist for a historical work, working with Larousse for a story in comics in France and Italy made a series on famous figures Attila history, Custer, Nobel or Helen of Troy.

Until 1977 all the stories have a script Manara you do not own, until the birth of HP. HP is the name of the adventurer that Manara created to become in himself and to live the adventures that he not live. As a tribute to another great adventure that he admires, Hugo Pratt, the creator of Corto Maltese, gives his name. In the first book, HP et Giuseppe Bergman, will, in Search of An Author Six Characters and Dies Irae (The African Adventures of Giuseppe Bergman 1 and 2) and later (1989) Tal Vez Dream (Oriental Adventures of Giuseppe Bergman .)

This world of adventure and eroticism make it a comic book character consgarado author. The 1983 publication of The Click also gives the critical acclaim, fame, popularity and money. While the title has been exploited in a series it leads, in time, to The Click 4. The Perfume of the Invisible, is his other great success in the form of erotic comics, which we must add works as Gulliveriana, Kamasutra, The Art of Whip, which explores sensual land from the lightest SM to the gendered tansversión Jonathan Swift's classic.

Manara enjoys a good reputation, so much has been chosen by Fellini and Almodovar to illustrate and translate their scripts. The result of this collaboration is Journey to Tulum, scripted by Fellini, a wonderful work that reflects a exactísima is how the holy city of Tulum, which, thanks to my wife, I live in 2002.

His best collaborations come from the hand of Hugo Pratt. His two albums together, El Gaucho and Indian Summer, an episode of the colonization of New England are undoubtedly masterpieces. They are joined Pratt's poetry and drawing tormented Manara. And both shocked Europe.

The reason why is Milo Manara a genius does not lie, as I said before, in the shocking way that draws women and erotic comics. His training as an illustrator, architect, sculptor's assistant, will provide a point than other cartoonists. Is heir to an Italian school in which outstanding artistic quality of the drawing and is a great artist who has been able to work with the best writers and develop their own scripts. The depiction of the human face and Manara are worthy of study because it seems impossible that so few traces his characters to express such a variety of emotions. From his training as an architect, or his passion for architecture, must come the complexity that represents cities, buildings and scenery. An example of this is the vignette in which two Knights Templar fighting before a stunning setting, a large crenellated tower. In the face of the knights to guess Once the fear and stress. The scene takes on a dreamlike tone, moreover present in all the works of Manara, after dark. Shame we could not teach in this blog.

The second loss was recently Manara. Lent it to several friends, on the few notebooks, some five or six, and of fair quality, black and white A4 standard format, which had obtained from that collection. Life takes us many times when you do not pay attention to these things, so I forgot about the loan until I tried to sort my collection of comics. I know that Manara is not among my things, anyone who knows me knows that when I do look for something really, so I turned to the friends list to provide guidance on whom I had my comics. The truth is that all say letting me back, and remember vaguely that left them. I know they are wrong and their sin I carry my penance for having made these comics who do not appreciate having read HP or Gulliveriana. I do not think these fish again, but I hope it does not mean a loss and forgetfulness over Milo Manara, the Great.

Works Milo Manara:

• Genius (1968).
• Jolanda de Almaviva (1972), Francesco Rubino script.
• La parola alla Giuria (1975).
• The Monkey King (1976), adaptation of the famous Chinese fable. Silverio Pisu script.
• HP and Giuseppe Bergman (1978), launching a series that reflects on the sense of adventure in the modern world.
• discovery of the world (1979), written by Jean Ollivier and Pierre Castex.
• The monk of Tibet (1979), screenplay by Alfredo Castelli.
• Dies Irae: The African Adventures of Giuseppe Bergman (1980). Male
• paper (1981).
• Click! (1983), his most famous work. Glamour
• Book (1984).
• misleading appearance (1984).
• The perfume of the invisible (1985). Journal
• Sandra F. (1985).
• Indian Summer (1986), historical melodrama written by Hugo Pratt.
• Candid Camera (1988).
• Foemina (1988).
• Rosa Shocking (1988).
• dream ... Maybe: The Adventures of Giuseppe Bergman East (1989).
• 1789. The Rivoluzione Francese (1989).
• Tulum Travel (1990), adapting an unpublished screenplay by Federico Fellini. Click
• 2 (1991).
• The Gaucho (1991), written by Hugo Pratt.
• Oengus
  's Dream (1991), screenplay by Giordano Berti.
• G.
  's Journey Mastorna called Fernet (1992), screenplay by Federico Fellini.
• The Game (1992).
• Milomanara (1992). Click
• 3 (1994).
• The perfume of the invisible 2: Nude Tour (1995).
• Gulliveriana (1996). Quote
• fatal (1997).
• Kamasutra (1997).
• a Monaca Portoghese di Lettere (1997). Camino
• hidden: Urban Adventures of Giuseppe Bergman (1998).
• Aphrodite (1998), screenplay by Pierre Louÿs.
• WWW (1998).
• Revoir les etoiles
  (1998).
• The metamorphosis of Lucius (1999).
• Legambiente (1999).
• Bolero (2000).
• Revolution (2000). Click
• 4 (2001). Manara
• Memory (2001).
• Sensualitars: The Host (2001).
• Piranèse: Prison Planet (2002).
• Creature di Sogno (2003).
• Los Borgia (2005), screenplay by Alejandro Jodorowsky.
• City Hunters (2006), created by Gaston and Alberto Stagnaro Gorali.
• Quarantasei (2007)
• X-Men: Ragazze in fuga (2009) written by Chris Claremont

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