IPER by Eugenio Marica & Francesco Bortolotti IPER © - Eugenio Marica & Francesco Bortolotti Published in ULTRAZINE with permission by the authors This comic can't be reproduced or used in any form without permission. Contact: Eugenio Marica - chiamamiiena@telemail.it English translation: Alessio Ligas & Smoky Man Lettering: Roberto Ledda ________ Credits ________ to the Story Eugenio Marica writer was born in Cagliari at the beginning of the 70s (music is dead with disco, baby). He just believes in comics icons, in Paul Thomas Anderson's films, in the axe of Gimli, son of Gloin, in Solomon Kane's justice and in the fact that myths can resist any upheaval always remaining the same. Iper comes out from his worship of Superman. Sometimes he'll kill Tex as well. Francesco Bortolotti artist was born in 1971. After getting the school leaving certificate has studied drawing, anatomy and Art history. In 1994 he attended in Cagliari his first course in comics. The following year he joined the Art School of Florence where he still studies and where he is preparing a thesis about the technique of oil painting from the origins to Impressionism. In 1997 he won the second prize at the national comics contest "Nuvole Parlanti" in Carbonia. From 1997 to 1999 he collaborated with the fanzine Clark's Bar. In January 2001 he attended the international meeting "The Picture as a universal language" set up in Angouleme by People to People International, a cultural association for the promotion of the entente between nations.