{"id":62,"date":"2026-03-18T14:49:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T14:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milomanara.it\/2026\/?page_id=62"},"modified":"2026-04-27T16:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T16:56:13","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/milomanara.it\/fr\/milo\/biografia\/","title":{"rendered":"","raw":""},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false,"raw":""},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false,"raw":""},"author":1,"featured_media":264,"parent":307,"menu_order":32,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-biografia.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_it_post_content":"Nato il 12 settembre 1945 a Luson, un piccolo comune in provincia di Bolzano, <\/span>Milo Manara<\/b> \u00e8 universalmente riconosciuto come uno dei pi\u00f9 grandi maestri del fumetto mondiale, un artista capace di unire la potenza del racconto per immagini a un inconfondibile stile che ha fatto della sensualit\u00e0 e dell'eleganza la sua firma.<\/span>\r\n\r\nIl suo viaggio nel mondo della nona arte inizia alla fine degli anni '60, un periodo di grande fermento culturale, in cui Manara muove i primi passi come autore di storie che intrecciano l'erotismo e le atmosfere poliziesche. Gli anni '70 segnano la sua ascesa e l'inizio di importanti collaborazioni: il suo talento approda sulle pagine del Corriere dei Ragazzi e di altre riviste a fumetti che definirono un'epoca. \u00c8 in questo periodo che, su testi di Alfredo Castelli e Mario Gomboli, realizza un'opera di forte impatto civile come <\/span>Un fascio di bombe<\/span><\/i>. La vera svolta verso un fumetto pi\u00f9 maturo e personale avviene per\u00f2 con il sodalizio con Silverio Pisu, da cui nascono due personaggi emblematici: <\/span>Lo Scimmiotto<\/span><\/i> e <\/span>Alessio, il borghese rivoluzionario<\/span><\/i>, che segnano il suo definitivo ingresso nel fumetto d'autore.<\/span>\r\n\r\nIl 1978 \u00e8 l'anno della consacrazione: Manara crea, sceneggia e disegna il suo primo, grande personaggio di successo, <\/span>Giuseppe Bergman<\/b>. Questa figura, un avventuriero alter-ego dell'autore stesso, diventa il veicolo per esplorare mondi onirici, esotici e filosofici, segnando una svolta decisiva nella sua poetica. Il decennio successivo si apre con un'opera che lo proietta sulla scena internazionale: nei primi anni '80, con <\/span>Il Gioco<\/span><\/i>, Manara non solo conquista un successo planetario, ma ridefinisce l'immaginario erotico nel fumetto, grazie a un tratto raffinato e a una narrazione audace.<\/span>\r\n\r\nLa sua statura di artista completo attira l'attenzione di altri giganti del racconto. Nascono cos\u00ec collaborazioni leggendarie, come quella con il suo grande amico e maestro <\/span>Hugo Pratt<\/b>, per cui disegna due capolavori, <\/span>Tutto ricominci\u00f2 con un\u2019estate indiana<\/span><\/i> ed <\/span>El Gaucho.<\/span><\/i> \u00c8 anche il periodo in cui d\u00e0 vita a una delle sue creature pi\u00f9 iconiche e amate, la sensuale e ingenua <\/span>Miele<\/b>, indimenticabile protagonista di storie come<\/span> Il profumo dell'invisibile<\/span><\/i> e <\/span>Candid Camera<\/span><\/i>. Un altro incontro fondamentale \u00e8 quello con il genio del cinema, <\/span>Federico Fellini<\/b>, con cui stringe un sodalizio artistico a partire dal 1987. Da questa amicizia e stima reciproca nascono due sogni a fumetti: <\/span>Viaggio a Tulum <\/span><\/i>e il successivo<\/span> Il viaggio di G. Mastorna detto Fernet<\/span><\/i>.<\/span>\r\n\r\nInstancabile e versatile, Manara si dedica anche alla trasposizione a fumetti di grandi classici della letteratura, riletti con la sua sensibilit\u00e0 unica, dando vita a opere come <\/span>Gulliveriana, Kamasutra<\/span><\/i> e<\/span> L'asino d'oro.<\/span><\/i> Parallelamente, non abbandona l'impegno sociale, che traspare in storie come <\/span>Ballata in Si bemolle, Rivoluzione<\/span><\/i> e <\/span>Tre ragazze nella rete,<\/span><\/i> che affrontano temi di grande attualit\u00e0.<\/span>\r\n\r\nCon l'espandersi della comunicazione multimediale, l\u2019attivit\u00e0 di Manara si diversifica orientandosi anche verso la realizzazione di storyboard e la consulenza per campagne pubblicitarie, come quelle per Chanel, per lo spot firmato da <\/span>Luc Besson<\/b>, Sisley, Fastweb, Eminence, Permaflex, Yamamay e Lavazza.<\/span>\r\n\r\nTra le varie collaborazioni come illustratore, non si possono dimenticare la realizzazione del manifesto per <\/span>La fortuna di Cookie<\/span><\/i> di <\/span>Robert Altman<\/b>, la lunga collaborazione con <\/span>Repubblica Auto<\/b>, le copertine e i disegni per L'Espresso e Panorama, le illustrazioni per Ciak, le cover per i dischi, tra gli altri, di <\/span>Lucio Dalla, Enzo Avitabile, Riccardo Cocciante, David Riondino, Grazia De Marchi<\/b> e per il disco Kufia del Coro di Al Aqsa, i disegni sui film di Fellini per <\/span>Costa Crociere<\/b>, i manifesti per festival di fumetti e spettacoli teatrali, come l'affiche per il <\/span>Falstaff <\/span><\/i>e <\/span>Tristano e Isotta<\/span><\/i> al <\/span>Teatro San Carlo<\/b> di Napoli, le illustrazioni per Iris e lo sceicco di <\/span>Lina Wertm\u00fcller<\/b>, <\/span>L'arte della sculacciata<\/span><\/i> di Jean-Pierre Enard, <\/span>Aphrodite<\/span><\/i> di Pierre Lou\u00ffs, <\/span>L'uccello del Sole<\/span><\/i> di Wilbur Smith e l'anonimo romanzo epistolare <\/span>Lettere di una monaca portoghese<\/span><\/i>. Su testi di Rudolph Angerm\u00fcller, realizza <\/span>P\u00e8ntiti!<\/span><\/i> sulla celebre trilogia di <\/span>Mozart - Da Ponte<\/b> (<\/span>Don Giovanni, Cos\u00ec fan tutte, Le nozze di Figaro<\/span><\/i>), per le celebrazioni dei 250 anni della nascita del grande musicista salisburghese, fino ad arrivare in tempi recenti alla realizzazione di un murale sulle pareti dello scalone monumentale dell'Istituto di Anatomia Umana dell'<\/span>Universit\u00e0 di Padova<\/b>, nell\u2019ambito delle celebrazioni nel 2022 per gli 800 anni dell\u2019Ente e alla realizzazione delle scenografie e costumi per la messa in scena del <\/span>Cos\u00ec Fan Tutte<\/span><\/i> su regia di Stefano Vizioli, coprodotto dai <\/span>teatri di Jesi, Modena, Rovigo, Pisa <\/b>in Italia e<\/span> Metz<\/b> in Francia, nel 2023.<\/span>\r\n\r\nLa sua fama travalica da tempo i confini europei. Nel 2009, la <\/span>Marvel Comics<\/b> gli affida, in coppia con una leggenda come Chris Claremont, un'elettrizzante storia tutta al femminile del gruppo mutante pi\u00f9 famoso: <\/span>X-Men: Ragazze in fuga<\/span><\/i>. Collabora anche con la <\/span>DC Comics<\/b>, dialogando con un altro maestro del fantastico, <\/span>Neil Gaiman<\/b>. Tra i suoi progetti pi\u00f9 ambiziosi e personali c'\u00e8 <\/span>Il pittore e la modella<\/span><\/i>, un'esplorazione continua del rapporto tra l'artista e la sua musa a cui lavora sin dal 2000. Su testi del visionario<\/span> Alejandro Jodorowsky<\/b>, d\u00e0 forma e colore alla scandalosa epopea de <\/span>I Borgia<\/span><\/i>, pubblicata tra il 2004 e il 2010 in quattro volumi.<\/span>\r\n\r\nIn anni pi\u00f9 recenti, si \u00e8 immerso nella storia dell'arte per raccontare la vita di uno dei suoi pi\u00f9 grandi ispiratori, <\/span>Caravaggio<\/b>, in una acclamata biografia in due volumi pubblicata da Panini Comics: <\/span>La Tavolozza e la spada<\/span><\/i> (2015) e il conclusivo <\/span>La Grazia<\/span><\/i> (2019). Proprio il 2019 segna il traguardo dei cinquant'anni di una straordinaria carriera, celebrata con una grande retrospettiva che il prestigioso <\/span>Festival de la Bande Dessin\u00e9e di Angoul\u00eame<\/b>, l'appuntamento pi\u00f9 importante d'Europa per il fumetto, gli ha dedicato per la prima volta.<\/span>\r\n\r\nNel 2021 Feltrinelli ha pubblicato la sua prima e unica autobiografia <\/span>A Figura Intera<\/span><\/i>, a cura di Tito Faraci, mentre in occasione dei suoi ottant'anni, compiuti a settembre 2025, \u00e8 stato presentato alla <\/span>Mostra del Cinema di Venezia<\/b>, nella sezione delle Giornate degli Autori, un documentario che ripercorre la sua ricca carriera e la sua interessante vita, per la regia di Valentina Zanella.<\/span>\r\n\r\nAttualmente, Manara \u00e8 impegnato in due progetti di portata eccezionale: l'adattamento a fumetti del capolavoro di <\/span>Umberto Eco<\/b>, <\/span>Il Nome della Rosa<\/span><\/i>, il cui primo volume \u00e8 stato pubblicato nel 2023 da La Nave di Teseo\/Oblomov con il secondo uscito a fine 2025, e una collaborazione attesissima con un'altra icona del fumetto mondiale, <\/span>Frank Miller<\/b>, per una storia ambientata nel suo universo narrativo di <\/span>Sin City<\/span><\/i>, prevista per il 2026. Un'ulteriore testimonianza della vitalit\u00e0 di un artista che non smette mai di esplorare e di incantare.<\/span>","_it_post_name":"biografia","_it_post_excerpt":"","_it_post_title":"Biografia","_en_post_content":"Milo Manara was born in Luson, a small mountain town near Bolzano, on September 12, 1945. Both his parents are workers, so Milo and his brothers start doing small jobs since their teenage years in order to be self-sufficient (when Milo was 12 he made decorative panels on commission). Following his natural inclinations, he graduates from a private art school. He moves to Verona where he starts working as an assistant to the famous Spanish sculptor Miguel Ortiz Berrocal and at the same time he applies for the Faculty of Architecture in Venice. The 1968 movement in Italy brings Manara and other artists, such as the painter Emilio Vedova, to strongly challenge La Biennale di Venezia. During this period Manara reflects on the social role of figurative art; by the coming of Pop Art in 1963 his artistic idea suddenly changes, shifting from the center to unpredictable and dematerialised directions. Between the Sixties and Seventies avant-garde artistic movements (Body Art, Minimal Art, Arte Povera, Conceptual Art, Kinetic Art, Land Art and Happenings) undermine the main structures of figurative art.\r\n\r\nManara, like his fellow artists, is not indifferent to the changes concerning his world, but he takes advantage of them to open his mind to new reflections. One day, thanks to Berrocal\u2019s French wife, who brings from Paris the latest bandes dessin\u00e9es released, such as Barbarella by Forest or The Adventures of Jodelle and Pravda by Guy Peellaert, Manara finds out about comics, that never interested him during his childhood and adolescence, partly because of his mother bans. What fascinates him is the production series of the medium, more similar to literature than to the uniqueness of a painting, considering also the comics affordable prices which allow more people to buy them. Manara sees comics as an opportunity to build his own role in the society, thanks to the wage standards in publishing that are more honest and closer to the economic reality that surrounds him than in the arts; so he decides to experiment this new language moving away from painting to embrace pop culture, closer to people (the painting where Manara himself is shown kicking a cow which stands for the figurative art, belongs to that period ).\r\n\r\nIn the late \u201860s he takes his first steps in comics publishing, he meets Mario Gomboli, already active in the arts field with Alfredo Castelli, who introduces him to the publisher Furio Viano, who will launch Manara as an author of erotic-cop stories belonging to the Genius series. Genius was in the first place a novel (the main character is a masked anti-hero inspired by Diabolik), then it turns into a comic book with the publication of Il morso della lupa, which will be released on newsstands on September 15, 1969 with art by Manara.\r\n\r\nLater he will draw Jolanda de Almaviva, a famous sexy series. The pirate series of Jolanda will be on newsstands from 1970 to 1974, Manara will debut in issue 14 out on May 1971. Meanwhile, Manara drops out of college; thanks to the help of Castelli he starts his partnership with il Corriere dei Ragazzi, a weekly magazine of Corriere della Sera, where he draws comics written by Milo Milani, La parola alla giuria, concerning historical figures being prosecuted. In the same years he delivers Un fascio di bombe, a story based on the strategy of tension in Italy involving a series of covert attack on the population.\r\n\r\nRight after that, Manara with Silverio Pisu, co-founder of the satirical magazine Telerompo, launches two important works for his career: The Ape and Alessio, which mark his debut as a comic book author. He works with the French publishing company Larousse, and creates some stories appeared in the collections L\u2019Histoire de France en bandes dessin\u00e9es, La decouverte du monde e L\u2019Histoire de la Chine. During these years Manara finds his own style starting from the confrontation with a master of the Ninth Art: Jean Giraud\/Moebius.\r\n\r\nIn 1978 he creates his first successful character and for the first time he is also credited as the writer of the story, published on the French magazine (A SUIVRE): HP and Giuseppe Bergman, where HP stands for his master and mentor Hugo Pratt, one of the main characters in the story; later he publishes some other stories dedicated to Giuseppe Bergman, who resembles both the author and Alain Delon (to whom Manara used to be compared to by some girls). These works will be published in Italy in 1980 on the first issue of Totem, a magazine published by Roberto Rocca.\r\n\r\nTowards the end of the decade and the beginning of the 1980s he is one of the authors of Storia d\u2019Italia a fumetti by Enzo Biagi and creates, for Playmen magazine, Click! a series of erotic Italian comics that gives him an unexpected worldwide success (a movie will be inspired by Click! with the beautiful Florence Gu\u00e9rin playing Claudia, based on the best-selling title known in France as Le D\u00e9clic that sales over one million copies). From now on Manara\u2019s career fully focuses on erotic productions.\r\n\r\nAlso, from that period, is one of the two works based on the scripts by Hugo Pratt; he draws two key stories for his career and for Italian adventure comics: Indian Summer, serialized on the Corto Maltese magazine from 1983 to 1985, and El Gaucho published by Il Grifo from 1991 to 1995. The first one, set in New Canaan, recreates the colonial period with detailed historical references and tells about the difficult co-existence between the inhabitants of a village founded by English colonists and the Indian native tribe of Squando. On the other side El Gaucho is set in Argentina in the early 1800s while the English Navy tries to conquer Buenos Aires from the Spanish. Within this scenario the story of the English drummer Tom Brown will be intertwine with the one of the beautiful Irish fishmonger Molly Malone, forced to live in misery and work as a prostitute on the Encounter ship, a floating brothel.\r\n\r\nIn 1981 Manara releases another important work for his career once again published in France by Pilote magazine: The Paper Man. The western story written by Manara will be released almost at the same time in Italy on Pilot magazine. Later, Manara illustrates The Snowman, based on a script by Castelli, for the Un uomo, un\u2019avventura series issued by Cepim, now known as Sergio Bonelli Editore. Right after that he introduces Miele (Honey), probably his most famous female character, who appeared on the volumes Butterscotch and in the Hidden Camera series.\r\n\r\nIn 1987 he starts working with Federico Fellini, thanks to Vincenzo Mollica who introduces him to the director some time before. The great Maestro from Rimini, to whom Manara had dedicated a short story, Senza Titolo (Untitled), had been a big influence on him especially after he made 8 \u00bd. After their meeting, Fellini asks Manara to illustrate a script he will later publish on Corriere della Sera. So Manara, with the director\u2019s consent, turns Fellini script into an amazing comic book: Trip to Tulum, published on Corto Maltese. Their relationship consolidates: Fellini revisits one of his projects and together with Manara creates Il viaggio di G. Mastorna detto Fernet, published by Il Grifo magazine, directed by Vincenzo Mollica. Manara also creates the movie posters for Fellini\u2019s La voce della luna and Intervista.\r\n\r\nIn the early 1990s he draws the panels for Enzo Biagi\u2019s Cristoforo Colombo. During this period, he also does the artworks for Pedro Almodovar\u2019s El fuego y las entra\u00f1as; he illustrates Fantasex, a collection of erotic and fantasy tales, followed by the comics transposition of three classics: Gulliveriana, Manara\u2019s Kama Sutra and The Golden Ass. He later draws three stories on social matters: Fatal Rendezvous on the usury issue, Revolution, on the brutalisation caused by television and www. on the internet world. The decade ends with the return of Giuseppe Bergman involved in one of his most amazing stories, The Urban Adventures of Giuseppe Bergman a reflection on art at the beginning of the new millennium through the memory of three great deceased friends: Andrea Pazienza, Federico Fellini, Hugo Pratt.\r\n\r\nAfter his French experience he tries to publish in USA; thanks to a collaboration with DC Comics, Manara illustrates for the its more adult brand Vertigo the story of Desire, appeared on the book Sandman: Endless Nights by Neil Gaiman. A few years later he pencils an X-Men project written by Chris Claremont for Marvel Comics: X-Men and X-Women.\r\n\r\nIn the years to come he starts doing variant covers for Marvel comic books which feature the most important heroines of the Marvel universe, from Black Widow to Gamora to Thor\u2019s female version and to the much talked about cover of Spider-Woman.\r\n\r\nHe creates 46, a comic book story between dream and reality on Valentino Rossi, whose title is inspired by the Italian champion\u2019s motorbike number, published on Rolling Stones. He then publishes Pandora\u2019s Eyes based on a script by Vincenzo Cerami on his debut as a comic book writer.\r\n\r\nSince the beginning of the 2000s Manara works on a project called The Model, the history of women modelling whether for painters, sculptors or as muses to well-known artists and creators of all types.\r\n\r\nFrom 2004 to 2010 he works on The Borgias, a four-part sweeping saga on the powerful and turbulent house, based on texts by the ingeniuos Chilean author Alejandro Jodorowsky.\r\n\r\nThe emerging multimedia communication brings Manara to diversify his production, so he does storyboards and provides advice for advertising products, such as Chanel for the spot directed by Luc Besson, for Sisley, Fastweb, Eminence, Permaflex, Yamamay and Lavazza. Also worthy of mention, is his support for the projects concerning the internet and computers, such as Gulliveriana, a story with an interactive Cd-rom, followed by the game Kamasutra.\r\n\r\nWe should mention his artwork for the poster for Cookie\u2019s Fortune, a movie by Robert Altman, the long collaboration with Repubblica Auto, the covers and the drawings for L\u2019Espresso and Panorama, the illustrations for Ciak magazine, the artworks for the albums of Lucio Dalla, Enzo Avitabile, Riccardo Cocciante, David Riondino, Grazia De Marchi and for the album Kuf\u00eca by Al Aqsa choir, the drawings for Costa Crociere based on Fellini movies, the posters for comics festivals and for theatre plays, such as Falstaff and Tristan and Isolde at San Carlo Theatre in Naples, the illustrations for Iris e lo sceicco by Lina Wertm\u00fcller, for The Art of Spanking by Jean-Pierre Enard, for Aphrodite by Pierre Lou\u00ffs, for The Sunbird by Wilbur Smith and for the anonymous epistolary novel Letters of a Portuguese Nun. He also works on P\u00e9ntiti! in the famous Mozart-Da Ponte trilogy (Don Giovanni, Cos\u00ec fan tutte, Le nozze di Figaro) based on texts by Rudolph Angerm\u00fcller, issued during the 250th anniversary of Mozart\u2019s birth and the illustrations that appear in the play Il Trombettiere by David Riondino.\r\n\r\nIn 2008 he signs for an exclusive partnership with COMICON for the curation and the management of his exhibitions in Italy and abroad; as a result, recently many events, exhibitions, festivals have been celebrating his art in Brazil, France, Germany, Belgium, Poland, Norway and South Korea.\r\n\r\nAfter several international awards and achievements, on February 20, 2009 L\u2019Accademia di Belle Arti in Macerata awards him with a Honoris Causa Degree. In 2015 he publishes his newest work Caravaggio Volume 1: The Palette and the Sword, chronicling the painter\u2019s early years in Rome. The volume, presented for the first time during the 17th edition of COMICON, in Naples, is one of his most successful works. The master from Luson has spent a very long time exploring the figure of Caravaggio and the historical period in which he lived, and as a result, he has been able to create a truthful and accurate artwork for the book. The second volume will be released on 2018 and will be about the final adventures of the great Michelangelo Merisi.\r\n\r\nManara\u2019s future is still a blank page but we are not how long it will stay like that\u2026","_en_post_name":"biography","_en_post_excerpt":"","_en_post_title":"Biography","_fr_post_content":"","_fr_post_name":"","_fr_post_excerpt":"","_fr_post_title":"","edit_language":"fr","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-62","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milomanara.it\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milomanara.it\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milomanara.it\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milomanara.it\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milomanara.it\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milomanara.it\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"https:\/\/milomanara.it\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions\/461"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milomanara.it\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milomanara.it\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milomanara.it\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}