Milo Manara''s Pandora''s Eyes

About Milo ManaraVincenzo Cerami

Born in Luson Milo Manara initially earned a living by assisting sculptors and only became interested in comics in the late sixties. He is one of the few comic artists who managed to create erotic comics and still maintain a reputation as an acclaimed artist. In 1995 Manara made Gullivera for Humanoids loosely based on the classic novel Gullivers Travels by Jonathan Swift. He worked with Federico Fellini on two stories with Neil Gaiman for DC/Vertigo in 2003 and collaborated with Alejandro Jodorowsky on the series Borgia about the 15th century papal family. He also drew X-Women and a variant cover of Spider-Woman for Marvel in addition to his praised erotic comics such as Pandoras Eyes and The Golden Ass. In 1998 Manara was inducted into the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame and in 2004 he won an Eisner award in the Best Anthology category for The Sandman: Endless Nights.Born in Rome Vincenzo Cerami was an Italian screenwriter novelist and poet. From 1967 on he contributed or wrote or adapted screenplays for more than 40 feature films. In 1976 his first novel A Very Normal Man was published and was an immediate hit and subsequently adapted into a film in 1977 by Mario Monicelli. Also critically acclaimed was his novel Goodbye Lenin published in 1981. In 1996 he was a member of the jury at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival and in 1999 he was nominated for the Academy Award for Original Screenplay for the Roberto Benigni film Life Is Beautiful.