The Adventures of Giuseppe Bergman

by Milo Manara

Travel the world of adventure with Milo Manara's most beloved character, Giuseppe Bergman! Revered for his peerless draftsmanship, Manara is also a wily satirist, and his Bergman tales are hilarious send-ups of adventure comics. Longing to escape his boring life, Bergman joins the mysterious H. P. (a loving caricature of Manara's mentor Hugo Pratt) on a bizarre, televised adventure for which he proves laughably unprepared. Also featuring Bergman's subsequent escapades though India, this volume is an essential addition to the Eisner Award-winning Manara Library!

Genres: Comics

220 pages, Hardcover

First published February 26, 2013

About the author

Maurilio Manara – known professionally as Milo Manara – is an Italian comic book writer and artist, best known for his erotic approach to the medium.

Reviews

[Dragan Nanic · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reading The Adventures of Giuseppe Bergman for the first time in 2017 is a strange experience. Omni present reality shows make it way more familiar and not-surprising today. What is left is a great sense of humor and a beautiful artwork. I really enjoyed it.

The Indian Adventures of Giuseppe Bergman are way more ambitious and incomprehensible. More a series of dreams, stories within stories and unexplained powers-to-be behind the scenes make this a huge esoteric mess. Manara made a loose connection of the motives he was interested in, tying the characters and the situations just enough for the plot to go on. Stop to think about it and it falls apart at numerous places. Still, it reads like an erotic version of Dylan Dog - highly entertainable post-modernism.

[Ryan · Rating 4 out of 5]

A significant improvement over the previous volume. The quality of the stories is much higher. There are really only two stories in this one. The first is about Giuseppe Bergman going on an "adventure" and the second just happens to have a younger, calmer version of the character in it. In fact, I would argue that Bergman is not really the main character in the second story. And once again, Dark Horse was lazy and refused to color either feature. They really should have.

[Ruz El · Rating 3 out of 5]

As per all the other volumes in the series, the presentation is top notch. There are two stories featured in this. The first one seems to find Manara being very experimental, which leads to some spectacular art that is missing a cohesive story. It's a real mess. The second story is much better plotted and has a pretty interesting angle featuring a team sent out to India to find a missing film crew.

I'm finding that the "good stuff" has already been presented, but even lesser Manara is fun to read.

[Leslie Jonsson · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was supposed to be one of Manara's most award winning and provocative works, however, I found the translation hard to understand and incoherent at times. The characters are not interesting. The entire work is in black and white, which I do not understand as the colorization of his work is exquisite. Only for die hard fans. The cover was the best part of the book, as it is in color.

[Kim · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great stuff, One of Milo's finest!!

[Alex Hern · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful, but damn, Manara likes writing the creepiest fucking rape scenes again and again and again.