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Milo Manara,
1048 

"il VASCELLO FANTASMA"

Planche originale
1970
Encre de Chine
25-35 cm
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Giuseppe Bergman  in 1970 and 1978
Detail of Manara's talent in the year 1970
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First clear appearance of the historic comic figure Giuseppe Bergman in a Manara story in the year 1970. The drawing style of the young (25) Milo Manara living in Venice and studying archtecture .

This story comes after "Genius" and before "Yolanda De Almaviva".

8 Years later, the start of his biggest succes.

Giuseppe Bergman is the Candide-like protagonist of the works of Italian cartoonist Milo Manara. The anti-heroic Italian youth stars in four graphic novels (comic books) which are an ironic deconstruction of adventure stories and comic books as a medium.

The first adventure, later collected for publication as HP et Giuseppe Bergman (The Great Adventure in Catalan’s English translation), was originally serialized in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine À Suivre beginning in 1978. Giuseppe Bergman appears as a dissatisfied 20-something longing for adventure. Seeking it, he responds to the advertisement of a mysterious company which sends him to HP, "the adventure master”: a caricature of and homage to famed Italian cartoonist Hugo Pratt. Bergman finds himself confronted by hoodlums, rioters, white slavers, drug addicts, revolutionaries, and natives, but his adventures are bumbling disasters as he is consistently unprepared for the situations he encounters. In later adventures, collected in the graphic novels An Author in Search of Six Characters, Dies Irae, Perchance to Dream, and To See the Stars, Bergman’s frustrating adventures take him through Africa, India, and the world of European art. Themes of art and illusion, fantasy and frustration, responsibility and human nature run through the stories.(Wiki)

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A propos de Milo Manara

Milo Manara est un auteur de bande dessinée italien. Il a commencé sa carrière en tant qu'illustrateur publicitaire avant de se tourner vers la bande dessinée dans les années 70. Il est surtout connu pour ses œuvres érotiques et sensuelles, qui ont été publiées dans de nombreux pays à travers le monde.