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Milo Manara
A famous Italian artist highly respected in both mainstream and erotic niche. Worked with Hugo Pratt and Federico Fellini. His the most well known erotic series Déclic (Click) started in 1983 and has finished with fourth chapter in 1998. His erotic books were published in U.S. by Eurotica of NBM Publishing, NYC.
Dick Matena
Very established artists from Netherlands with long list of published works. As far the adult genre goes, he’s most known by They Are So Nice softcore series.
Giuseppe Manunta
Italian artists with very special pencilling and coloring style, most of his works can be found in the Selen Magazine and the best known series are Eros and Souvenir. Although he has illustrated famous series like ‘Dylan Dog’, he is mostly known for his erotic work. Most of his work in this genre is published in the erotic magazine Selen, where he created series like ‘Eros’ and ‘Souvenir’. An album appeared in 2002, ‘Contrôle de Peau Liste’.
Mónica & Beatriz
Mónica & Beatriz came to work for erotic comics magazine El Vibora straight from school. Thanks to their stories full of ghoulish humor, these two bouncy girls from Madrid quickly captured the hearts of the magazine’s readers. Right now they’re the most popular and successful team working in Spanish erotic comics – with Mónica the most admired cover artist – at both the national and international level, triumphing in all those countries where censorship permits: France, Italy, Denmark and Sweden.
Paula Meadows
Paula Meadows comes from a middle class British background. During the late ’80s, she shared a London apartment with writer Frank Russell, and painted erotic art under the name Lynn Paula Russell.
As an actress, she appeared in Hair, then began posing nude for English sex magazines in the late ’70s. Paula met Mike Freeman and debuted in Truth or Dare, based on a script by Frank Russell. Meadows then fought with Freeman and moved to New York to pursue her porn career.
Michael Manning
Born in Queens NYC and raised on Massachusetts’ North Shore, Manning went on to study film and animation at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He began publishing his black and white erotic comix in 1987 while working as an animator and director of short films, commercials, and music videos.
A move to San Francisco in 1991 coincided with his decision to focus on comix and erotic illustration full-time. Manning continued to self-publish and produce work for San Francisco’s emerging SM/sex-zine community while his artwork and stage/costume design for multi-media performances appeared regularly at local music venues and fetish events. Much of his graphic work from this period has been collected in Lumenagerie (1996/NBM) and Cathexis (1997/NBM). His artwork has been exhibited in New York, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles, Japan, and Italy. The Spider Garden has been translated into French, German, and Italian.
Early exposure to Japanese animation, fairy tale book illustration, American and European comix, and mythology of many cultures has contributed to the formation of Manning’s style. He is a great admirer of the Symbolist and Pre-Raphaelite art movements as well as the classical ukiyo-e prints of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi and Unagawa Kuniyoshi.
Stefano Mazzotti
Stefano Mazzotti is an artist of erotic comics for the Italian Selen magazine. His stories are characterized by the varying historical settings and locations.
Suehiro Maruo
Suehiro Maruo is a self-taught high school dropout and former shoplifter who began drawing comics at the age of eighteen. His first work, submitted to the weekly manga Shonen Jump, was promptly rejected. His dark style fantasy dreams didn’t fit in the commercialized, mass-market magazines. It took five more years before he started drawing comics again, this time for Ero-manga. Besides trying to make a living out of his talents, it was also part of a quest for artistic freedom. Maruo draws nightmares. In the tradition of muzan-e (atrocity print) woodblock masters of the 19th century, he drew short stories of axe murders, abortion, rape and incest in as much graphic detail as the obscenity codes allowed.
But Maruo is not just another “sex and violence” manga artist – he is one of the greatest retro-artists working in the manga field today. His drawings are elegant, and he uses innovative page designs. Today, Maruo’s art and stories go far beyond the readers of Ero-manga; his work is sold in deluxe hardback book format, and limited editions of his lithographed prints sell for high prices. He has realized that his work is most powerful and lyrical when he refrains from sex and violence, and so today he is working on a new series for the mainstream manga magazine Young Champion. Maruo’s most famous works are ‘Planet of the Jap’ and ‘Mr. Arachi’s Amazing Freak Show’.
Matrix (Thierry Martin)
Thierry Martin was born in Beyrouth, but moved to France in 1975 during the civil war. During his art studies, he had his first publications in some erotic magazines, adapting the pseudonym Matrix. He then worked in the animation field for several years. In 2002, he began his comics series ‘Le Pil’ in cooperation with scriptwriter Olivier Taïeb at Dargaud.
Youji Muku
Youji Muku was the editor of the Japanese S&M magazine Uramado. When he was 40 years old, he made his professional debut as an artist, specializing in erotic pencil drawings of bondaged women. When he died at age 72, he left an impressive oeuvre. A selection of Youji Muku’s comics, prints and illustrations have been collected in the book ‘Jyo’ (‘Rope’).
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