comics & the mainstream

01 mayo 2008

Comics+Movies: Manara/Fellini

Milo Manara, (born 1945) is an Italian comic book creator (writer and artist), best known for his erotic approach to the medium.
Federico Fellini, (1920–1993) was an Italian film director. Known for a distinct style which meshes fantasy and baroque images, he is considered as one of the most influential and widely revered film-makers of the 20th century.
In 1991 Fellini's graphic novel Trip to Tulum was translated into English by Stefano Gaudiano and published in the magazine Crisis with artwork by Milo Manara.    Wiki®


storyboard bajo las indicaciones de Fellini


"El viaje de G. Mastorna. llamado Fernet sigue siendo una pelicula, sólo que en comics.  Los lápices , tintas chinas y las medias tintas y los lapices del amigo Manara son el equivalente de las escenografías, de los trajes , de las máscaras de los actores, del mobiliario y de las luces con los que cuento en mis peliculas " Fellini 1992 en Fellini & Manara.  El viaje fe G Mastorna Ed.B 1996



In 1966, after a terrifying nightmare, the Italian director Fellini decided to abandon the making of a film called The Journey of G. Mastorna . Fellini's memory of that movie serves as the inspiration for artist Manara's transformation of the director's failed screenplay into a fantastic journey to a land of mystery and ancient wisdom. A beautiful woman fallsp.59 into a pond chasing Fellini's windblown hat. Under the water's surface is an eerie world of preserved shipwrecks and planewrecks, p.60 a resting place for ghostly references to Fellini's films. Inside a submerged seaweed-encrusted 747 the woman is astonished to find Fellini himself.P.64 He sends her off with a very handsomely drawn Marcello Mastroianni--Fellini's alter ego--to make a movie of unknown content. They stop in Los Angeles p.68 and finally reach a grand hotel on the Mexican coast where magical transformations abound. Fellini and Manara have brought the dreamlike beauty of Fellini's cinematography to the comics medium. A consummate linear draftsman, Manara's deft portraits of Fellini and Mastroianni are complemented by his dazzling imaginary architecture, his characteristic lyrical eroticism and the playfully self-referential exchanges between Fellini and the characters in his story. This unusual and engaging encounter between two exceptional artists is in color and includes short essays by Fellini and Manara. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. Amazon®