Milo Manara - Indian Summer

Hugo Pratt : Born in Rimini in Italy in 1927 and dead in Pully (Switzerland) in 1995, Hugo Eugenio Pratt is an italian comic book author. His most famous work is Corto Maltese (1967-1991), which has largely gone beyond the comic book field. Pratt recieved many prizes : The Prize Yellow Kid of the best comic book at Lucques international congress in 1970; The Phénix of the best comic book adventure for Corto Maltese in 1971; The Saint-Michel Prize for the best realistic scenario for The Desert scorpions in 1974; The Prize of the best realistic foreign work for The Ballade of the salt sea at the 3rd Angoulême festival in 1976; The Great Special Prize 15th anniversary at Angoulême festival in 1988; The Great national Prize of graphic arts in 1988. And received posthumously the Prize Max and Moritz of the best comic book translated in german for Saint-Exupéry in 1996, The "Temple de la renommée Will Eisner" in 2005, and the Prize Eisner of the best american edition of an international work for An Indian Summer (with Milo Manara) in 2012.
Milo Manara : Born in 1945 in Luson (Italia), Milo Manara is an italian comic author. His first professional plates (erotic tales) from 1968, allowed him to finance his architecture studies in Venice. He gave up his job of sculptor assistant and published Genius followed by The aventures of Jolanda, pirate woman. In 1974, he realized an adaptation of Boccace's Decameron. In 1976, "The Monkey", his first ambitious tale, was published in Alter-Linus then in Charlie Mensuel. At the same time, he drawn several episodes of the "History of France" and of the "Discovery of the world" in comic book in the Larousse editions. In 1978 the "Snow man" is published. In 1983, "Le Déclic" made his recognition as the master of the erotic comic book. In 1987, Hugo Pratt became his scriptwritter for "An indian summer". Today, Milo Manara continues a regular production of erotic stories with Albin Michel editions and also participates to projects, like the illustration portfolios or the serie Borgia with the scriptwritter Alejandro Jodorowsky.