MANARA LIBRARY HC (2025)

"Italian comics legend Milo Manara brings a comprehensive collection of his catalog to the United States! The first of nine volumes, The Manara Library Volume one collects two of Manara's seminal works in a magnificently appointed, deluxe hardcover edition. The sweeping epic Indian Summer, a collaboration with celebrated creator Hugo Pratt, is collected here along with Manara's The Paper Man, both translated by Euro comics expert Kim Thompson. "

"Dark Horse continues to bring the works of Italian comics master Milo Manara to American audiences with volume 2 of The Milo Manara Library! This deluxe hardcover, newly translated by Eurocomics expert Kim Thompson, features the sweeping historical epic El Gaucho, the second of Manara's storied collaborations with his mentor Hugo Pratt, author of the internationally acclaimed Corto Maltese. Rounding out this volume is Trial by Jury, a series of shorts, never before published in the US, in which some of history's most notorious figures undergo a mock trial. "

"Milo Manara's collaborations with legendary filmmaker Federico Fellini take center stage in this volume of The Milo Manara Library! Together, these two masters produced the beautiful, surreal stories 'Trip to Tulum' and 'The Voyage of G. Mastorna,' the latter of which is presented in English for the first time! Completing this volume is Manara's collaboration with Silverio Pisu on the satirical update of a Chinese fable, 'The Ape,' as well as a large selection of short stories displaying the maestro's illustrative versatility! Introduction by comics historian Paul Gravett!"

"Travel the world of adventure with Milo Manara's most beloved character, Giuseppe Bergman! Revered for his peerless draftsmanship, Manara is also a wily satirist, and his Bergman tales are hilarious send-ups of adventure comics. Longing to escape his boring life, Bergman joins the mysterious H. P. (a loving caricature of Manara's mentor Hugo Pratt) on a bizarre, televised adventure for which he proves laughably unprepared. Also featuring Bergman's subsequent escapades though India, this volume is an essential addition to the Manara Library!"

"Giuseppe Bergman is still looking for adventure in all the wrong places: from Africa to the Aegean, Manara's signature character stars in a film with a vanished director; re-creates the legendary voyage of Ulysses; and babysits a woman whose urge to reenact classic paintings lands her in Dante's hell! Manara's artwork and satirical voice are both in top form, and these stories, spanning two decades, are among his funniest, sexiest, and most beautiful! Collects the classic An Author in Search of Six Characters and Dies Irae, along with Bergman's Odyssey and The Urban Adventures. "

"Milo Manara and Alejandro Jodorowsky's (Metabarons, The Incal) sweeping saga of sex, blood, and religion is collected in a single edition for the first time, in the latest volume of The Manara Library! When Pope Innocent VIII dies, the corrupt, licentious Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia schemes, murders, and seduces his way into becoming the new Pope and immediately secures positions for his family to ensure a Borgia dynasty. With breathtakingly beautiful painted artwork by Manara, this account of Italy's first Mafia family is among comics'-and history's-sexiest, most violent, and most engrossing epics!"