The Manara Library, Vol. 6: Escape from Piranesi & Other Stories

by Milo Manara (Illustrator)

Dark Horse's celebrated series collecting the work of master cartoonist Milo Manara is a wrap! In this final volume of The Manara Library, the Maestro's unmatched draftsmanship and versatility are on full display, with stories spanning science fiction, Westerns, war, creature features, and more! Featuring the sexy political space opera Escape from Piranesi; the provocative illustrated history of the human race, The Story of Humanity; Manara and Castelli's classic tale of spiritual discovery, The Snowman; and Manara's Reality Comics, published in English for the first time ever. The sixth and last volume in this multi-award-winning series ends on a strikingly high note!

Genres: Comics

320 pages, Hardcover

First published September 23, 2014

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

[Ryan · Rating 3 out of 5]

This really should have been the volume a liked the most. It has the most going for it: most of the stories are beautifully colored in all different styles, a lot of different types of stories. But by now I'm just over it all. Maybe this is a sacrilege to admit this, but while this collection is great at presenting Manara's many talents as an artists. It also shows me that I don't really like much of the writing in the stories. If you want to collect Manara art and don't care about the stories, by all means, pick this whole series up. But if you are looking for some fine stories to read over and again, outside to the first two volumes, you might be a little disappointed.

[Dragan Nanic · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is the weakest book in the collection, predominantly because of the banality and the emptiness of the stories, not to mention predictability and the ridiculousness of plots. Manara's drawings are still captivating but they cannot make up for the disappointment or the feeling of a wasted time.

If there wasn't for The Snowman and the beauty and the quality of the edition itself, there would not have been a second star.

[Ruz El · Rating 4 out of 5]

This one is the final volume in the Dark horse series and mostly collects shorter stories. IT's one of the best volumes in my mind. Stories range from sci-fi to "Realistic" and make for a nice change of pace and allows Manera to flex his art into other genres while maintaining a constant need to draw women undressed situations.

[Leslie Jonsson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some stories are excellent, some are just odd in this artistic story collection by Manara, the master. My favorite was the story the title art comes from-but it's bizarre. While these collections won't win any new fans they will please the old ones.