Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri was born in Venice. He began studying at the Fine Art Academy in Rome and became a pupil of Renato Guttuso. Serpieri took courses in painting and architecture. In 1966, he pursued a career in painting, achieving much acclaim from the critics. In 1975, he finally discovered comics. Together with writer Raffaele Ambrosio, he created a series of stories about the history of the West, published in the magazines Lancio Story and Skorpio. Some memorable titles are 'L'Indiana Bianca' and 'L'Uomo di Medicina'.
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From 1980 on Paolo Serpieri worked on collections like 'L'Histoire du Far-West' and 'Découvrir la Bible', as well as short stories for magazines such as L'Eternauta, Il Fumetto and Orient-Express. In 1985, he created the saga of 'Druuna', of which many titles appeared through the 1990s: 'Morbus Gravis', 'Creatura', 'Carnivora', 'Mandragora', 'Aphrodisia', 'Obsession', 'Druuna X' and 'Croquis'. These erotic/galactic epics became a great success, selling more than a million issues in twelve languages. Serpieri's depiction of the well-endowed heroine has earned him the undisputed title of the "Master of the Ass".
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