The story follows the adventures of little Nelson
Bartholomew Miller Jr., who is sent away by his rich father, it grows up in the
wild west becoming the fearsome gunslinger Philadelphia Miller Mancino. From
there he has a series of dramatic events which leads to a tragic end, but he
will remain in his son Arthur, who was born from his beloved Clara and grows up
hiding the true identity of his father. Arthur now an adult will find himself
in a more modern west (in the era of gangsters and prohibition), and must come
to terms with his past.
Maurizo Bovarini was born in Bergamo, Italy on July 31,
1934. In his hometown he celebrates his first experiences in print, then moves
to Milan where he continues his work as an illustrator and occasional
cartoonist. He published his first drawings and cartoons in the musical world,
in the fifties, in The Hours (not to
be confused with the eponymous erotic magazine a few years later).
Early on he worked as an illustrator at the Corriere directed by Guglielmo Zucconi,
with illustrations like those for "Mutiny on the Bounty" (from no. 31
to no. 35 of 1961, on Tolomei texts).
He was an art director for several publishing houses in
the capital of Lombardia. In compiling his autobiographical notes, fifty years
later, he will write in the third person: "He has worked hard to become
famous and rich as a result, but has always gone wrong: almost every morning he
goy out of bed, with the wrong foot."
He worked in many different venues from LP covers, to
Playboy magazine clones to comic books to specialized magazines.
Maurizio would die from a heart attack he suffered in
Milan, Italy on the night between the 12th and 13th of July 1987.
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