of Michael Manning with an introduction by Patrick Califia-Rice, was published by Last Gasp in 2005 just after Manning moved to Los Angeles. The second volume in the Tranceptor series, Iron Gauge, was published in 2007. Manning's artwork has been exhibited in galleries in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Boston, Omaha, Miami, Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Milan. In 2002, mural-sized reproductions of panels from his In A Metal Web graphic novel were featured as part of a special installation at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts comic book-themed exhibition Fantastic! Comics and the Art of Illusion, <ref.. Manning's work appears illustrating Tales of Gor, a role-playing game based on the works of John Norman, written by James Desborough. Publications Michael Manning, Cathexis, Amerotica, 1997. . Michael Manning, Lumenagerie, Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing, 1997. . Michael Manning, Patrick Conlon, Tranceptor: The Way Station (Tranceptor Series), Amerotica, 1998. . Michael Manning, Inamorata, Last Gasp, 2005. . Michael Manning, Patrick Conlon, Tranceptor: Iron Gauge (Tranceptor Series), 2007. Michael Manning, Erwin Tschofen, Michael Manning's The Nibelungen, SUM Legio Publishing, 2010. Michael Manning, Erwin Tschofen, Michael Manning's The Nibelungen 1st Edition, SUM Legio Publishing, Jan 2010. Spider Garden Michael Manning, The Spider Garden (Spider Garden), Amerotica (NBM Publishing), 1995. . Michael Manning, Hydrophidian (Spider Garden), Amerotica (NBM Publishing), 1997. . Michael Manning, In a Metal Web (Spider Garden), Amerotica, 2003. . Michael Manning, In a Metal Web II (Spider Garden), Amerotica, 2003. . Michael Manning, Il giardino della tela di ragno (Italian version of The Spider Garden), Phoenix Enterprise, 1995/1999, . The Spider Garden Series The Spider Garden graphic novel series, written and drawn by Manning, currently consists of four volumes in the following order: The Spider Garden (1995), Hydrophidian (1996), In A Metal Web (2004), and In A Metal Web II (2004). Publication History The first volume of the Spider Garden series was originally produced under contract for Kevin Eastman's Tundra Publishing line. After Manning was released from his contract with Tundra in 1994, The Spider Garden became the inaugural book in NBM Publishing's Amerotica line with the three subsequent volumes in the series also appearing under the NBM/Amerotica imprint. An Italian language edition of the first volume was published by Phoenix Erotica in 1999, followed by French and Italian language editions from BD Érogéne in 2000. Plot Set in a futuristic, matriarchal world of warring clans which vaguely recalls feudal-era Japanese