collaborations with Neil Gaiman and other artists. Later work In connection with their joint project Quarantasei, in July 2006, Manara designed a helmet for Moto GP rider Valentino Rossi, specifically made for the Italian GP in Mugello. Rossi declared: In 2003, Manara's work featured on the cover of Scottish rock band Biffy Clyro's second studio album The Vertigo of Bliss. Manara also created the artwork for all the singles released from this album. In October 2006, Manara developed character designs for the animated television series City Hunters. The series, of ten 11-minute episodes, blends traditional animation techniques with modern CGI, to be broadcast across all of Latin America on the FOX network throughout 2006 and 2007. Manara penciled an X-Men project written by Chris Claremont for Marvel Comics called X-Men: Ragazze in fuga that released in April 2009 in Italy, and was later reprinted in short circulation by Marvel Comics in English as X-Women. In 2013 he started to do low print variant covers for issues of Marvel comic books. He was profiled in the 2011 documentary film Derailments (Deragliamenti). Awards 1978: and for an Italian artist 1998: Harvey Awards: Inducted into the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame 2004: Eisner Award, with various artists for Best Anthology, for The Sandman: Endless Nights Bibliography Adaptations Series Click (1997) City Hunters (2006, animated TV series created by Gastón Gorali & Alberto Stagnaro) Films Le Déclic (1985) Le Parfum de l'invisible (1997 IMDb) La Légende de Parva (2003) The Erotic Misadventures of the Invisible Man (2003 IMDb) See also Fernando Carcupino Hugo Pratt Guido Crepax Italian comics Notes References Manara publications in (A SUIVRE) Pilote, L'Écho des Savanes'' and BoDoï – BDoubliées Manara albums – Bedetheque Manara publications in English – Europeancomics.net External links Milo Manara biography on Lambiek Comiclopedia } Manara Eurotica catalog NBM Graphic Novels publisher 1945 births Living people People from Lüsen Italian comics writers Italian comics artists Italian erotic artists