Manara is a celebrated French artist renowned for his detailed, beautiful work. Hugo Pratt is one of his long time collaborators, supplying scripts that push the bounds of graphic novel storytelling. This volume collects two of Milo Manara's works based in Colonial America, The Paper Man and Indian Summer. The Manara Library Vol. One art by Milo Manara script by Hugo Pratt Dark Horse Books November 2011 Indian Summer is a dark tale set in the village of New Canaan and its vicinity. When two Indians find and rape a colonial woman near the ocean and are subsequently killed by a passerby there seems to be no escaping an inevitable war. The story is filled with colonial cliché: Reverend Black is a hate-filled man who abuses his authority, and participates in incest; the family at the center of the story also dabbles in incest, as well as capricious sexuality and perversion (multiple male characters mock pleasure themselves, for instance); the Indians attack even when they know what happened living up to the "savage" cliché; and the colonialists are generally whimpering simpletons. The art is beautiful, even if the coloring is dated (this was originally published in the 1980s), but the blasé attitude towards incest, rape and sexuality combined with simple characters and cliché left me disappointed. The Paper Man is in like the mid-Summer Sun to Indian Summer's star-less night. Whereas Indian Summer was perverted and crude, The Paper Man surprises with depth and whimsy. An English sergeant and a young man travel north together - the Englishman to join his comrades in arms in Quebec; the young man to find his lost love in Maine. On the way they are joined by an Indian who does everything backwards, a reverend who becomes a berserker when it rains and a captured Sioux Indian girl. The story moves well from plot point to plot point and the artwork shines, as always. The ending is one that will stay with you. Volume One collects just two of Manara's works and if it weren't for The Paper Man it wouldn't be worth your time. But with The Paper Man, and Manara's excellent art this title deserves a look from all serious readers of the graphic novel genre.