Background
Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri was born February 29, 1944 in Venice.
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During the thirteen years of publication of Druuna's adventures in Morbus Gravis, the plot has evolved through several stages, differentiated with numerous jumps in the storyline, with some attendant inconsistencies. In the first volumes in the series, the action unfolds is a place called The City, a futuristic but degraded urban environment. Humans live in a cramped, hostile, and decadent society, controlled by a religious oligarchy based on the knowledge of "Truth." In this society, books are banned and power is exercised by a corrupt and despotic militarized bureaucracy. Although never clearly stated, this current era, known as the "Age of Man", is presumed to be the aftermath of a kind of war. As told by the priests, Evil had been visited on the populace by an incurable, infectious disease that transforms people in a progressive and rapid fashion into amorphous, tentacled mutants. As a precautionary measure, all of the City's inhabitants are forcibly injected with a serum periodically distributed in overcrowded health facilities. Many believe that those found to be "healthy" will be sent to the City's upper levels, a place inaccessible to the majority but where those selected enjoy a better life free from want and hardship. Similarly, those infected with "Evil" are sent to the lower levels. Druuna and her lover Shastar exist in this environment. After a series of adventures, Druuna discover that the City is actually a giant spaceship which left Earth after an unspecified cataclysm and has drifted through space for centuries. At some point, Lewis, the ship's captain, delegated control to the computer Delta, which is responsible for creating the current state of affairs. (The Priests are actually androids operated by Delta.) Delta transformed Lewis into an immortal being, using organic parts from the healthy people who had been admitted to the upper levels of the City.
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Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri was born February 29, 1944 in Venice.
He studied architecture and painting at Rome"s Fine Arts Academy in Rome under Renato Guttuso, and began his career as a painter in 1966, but in 1975 he shifted his focus to comics.
He is best known for his work on the erotic science fiction series. He moved to Rome in his youth. He produced work for the Italian comics magazine Lanciostory.
A big fan of the American Old West, Serpieri co-created L"Histoire du Far-West (The Story of the West), a Western series about the history of the Old West, with writer Raffaele Ambrosio, which was published in the magazines Lancio Story and Skorpio.
Some of the titles were L"Indiana Bianca (The White Indian) and L"Uomo di Medicina (Medicine Manitoba). Beginning in 1980 Serpieri worked on collections like Découvrir la Bible, as well as short stories for magazines such as L"Eternauta, Il Fumetto and Orient-Express.
In 1985, he published Morbus Gravis, the first work of the saga. The series is noteworthy for featuring realistic and explicit content including graphic violence and sexual
These books have been very successful, selling more than a million copies in twelve languages.
The English language translations are published by Heavy Metal. Due to the interest in this series, Serpieri has also published numerous sketchbooks, such as Obsession, X, X 2, Croquis, Serpieri Sketchbook, Serpieri Sketchbook 2 and The Sweet Smell of Woman. Serpieri"s highly detailed portrayals of well-endowed heroines have earned him the distinction of "Master of the Ass".
Serpieri is also credited with design work on the 3-Doctorate video game: Morbus Gravis, based on his heroine.
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