Milo Manara is an Italian cartoonist. Attracted by the drawing (he illustrated his childhood in The Iliad and The Odyssey), he discovered comics in contact with the Spanish sculptor Berrocal which he is the assistant.

His first professional boards - erotic stories - date from 1968, when they allow him to finance his studies in architecture in Venice. Therefore, he designed all at once political posters, children's stories and finally (in 1976) first solo band, The Monkey King, published in Italy by the magazine Linus.

In 1978, at the instigation of the French monthly (To Follow), he created the character of Giuseppe Bergman, whose adventures were published by Casterman album from 1980.

His talent for drawing erotic leads also to publish from 1983 Albin Michel, a series of erotic albums (The Spark'). In 1987, Hugo Pratt became his scriptwriter for An Indian summer, they experience rééditeront seven years later with El Gaucho.

Meanwhile, the work of Federico Fellini, another 'master of adventure' 'Milo Manara, inspired another collaboration with the imaging of the Travel in Tulum (1990), which will continue in 1996 with journey of G. Mastorna. Manara has also, in thirty years of career, done much work in the fields of the poster, decoration, advertising and broadcasting.