Milo Manara was born in Italy in 1945. Equally at ease as a cartoonist and screenwriter, he has established himself over the years as a world leader in erotic comics. He began drawing in 1969 with Genius. Among his many works are an adaptation of Boccaccio's Decameron in 1974, Giuseppe Bergman in 1978, Le Déclic in 1983, Le Parfum de l'Invisible in 1985, Candide Caméra in 1988, as well as L'Été Indien and El Gaucho, two comic strips produced in collaboration with his friend and mentor Hugo Pratt. With the famous Italian director and screenwriter Federico Fellini, Manara produced the two albums Voyage à Tulum (1990) and Le Voyage de G. Mastorna (1996). But Manara is also a genius illustrator, as can be seen in The Art of Spanking or The Model. In 2004, he signed the first volume of the sulfurous Borgia series, with the illustrious Jodorowsky in the script. Manara developed his art of direct color to paint the flesh and blood of fifteenth-century Italy. In 2018, Manara completed an ambitious diptych dedicated to the famous painter Caravaggio. He celebrates his fifty-year career anniversary in 2019 with the beautiful book Sublimating Reality, an imposing sum that evokes all the facets of his work.