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Silvio Cadelo
Before embarking on a career as a comics artist, Silvio Cadelo worked as an industrial designer, advertising professional, and an actor. Inspired by Moebius, with whom he later collaborated, Cadelo decided to move into comics in 1979. He drew his first stories for magazines like Linus, Alter and Frigidaire. He made his debut in France with 'Skeol' in 1981, followed by the portfolio 'Strappi'.
He teamed up with the writer Alexandro Jodorowsky and created 'Le Dieu Jaloux' and 'L'Ange Carnivore', two stories later reprinted as 'La Saga d'Alendor'. He joined the magazine À Suivre in 1987, where he continued the adventures of 'Envie de Chien', created two years earlier in Frigidaire. He also produced two erotic albums, 'Perverse Alice' and 'La Fleur Amoureuse', first published in L'Écho des Savanes. In 1993, he illustrated Jean-Pierre Andrevon's 'L'Homme aux Dinosaures'. A year later, he did 'Les Plaisirs de Saturnin' at Glénat.
In 1995, he illustrated 'Les Fleurs Secrètes', with an erotic text by Pierre Louÿs, published by Vertige Graphic. In that same year, he began a collaboration with the Japanese publisher Kodansha. Together with the writer Bettina Sand, he conceived the trilogy 'Les Enfants de Lutèce', and later 'Sulis et Demi-Lune'.
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Salomon Grundig
Master fetish artist from France. I don't know much about his biography, but apparently Salomon Grundig is a pseudonym of an argentinian artist: Carlos Pedrazzini. The drawings will be made by the Argentine sketcher Carlos Pedrazzini is another reference to his skills in putting together a story board for a comic series.
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Shintaro Kago
Shintaro Kago's style has been called "fashionable paranoia", dealing with themes like extreme sex, violence and abnormality. He has been published in several adult manga magazines, gaining him considerable popularity. His short story 'Punctures' (about a man who is so paranoid about getting holes in anything that he rather makes the punctures himself before it really happens) has been translated into English and published in the 'Secret Comics Japan' collection of underground publications. Offers have been made to publish his work in France.
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Stefano Mazotti
Stefano Mazzotti is an artist of erotic comics for the Italian Selen magazine. His stories are characterized by the varying historical settings and locations.
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Suehiro Maruo
Suehiro Maruo is a self-taught high school dropout and former shoplifter who began drawing comics at the age of eighteen. His first work, submitted to the weekly manga Shonen Jump, was promptly rejected. His dark style fantasy dreams didn't fit in the commercialized, mass-market magazines. It took five more years before he started drawing comics again, this time for Ero-manga. Besides trying to make a living out of his talents, it was also part of a quest for artistic freedom. Maruo draws nightmares. In the tradition of muzan-e (atrocity print) woodblock masters of the 19th century, he drew short stories of axe murders, abortion, rape and incest in as much graphic detail as the obscenity codes allowed.
But Maruo is not just another "sex and violence" manga artist - he is one of the greatest retro-artists working in the manga field today. His drawings are elegant, and he uses innovative page designs. Today, Maruo's art and stories go far beyond the readers of Ero-manga; his work is sold in deluxe hardback book format, and limited editions of his lithographed prints sell for high prices. He has realized that his work is most powerful and lyrical when he refrains from sex and violence, and so today he is working on a new series for the mainstream manga magazine Young Champion. Maruo's most famous works are 'Planet of the Jap' and 'Mr. Arachi's Amazing Freak Show'.
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