Gianfranco Manfredi

Gianfranco Manfredi is a quintessentially multimedia figure, born in Senigallia but always a resident of Milan, where he earned a degree in the History of Philosophy. The author of more than three hundred songs, numerous film and television screenplays, various essays of music criticism, and over a dozen novels, he made his debut in comics in 1991, creating the character Gordon Link for Editoriale Dardo.

He has collaborated with Sergio Bonelli Editore since 1994, writing numerous scripts for Dylan Dog and Nick Raider. In 1997 he created the western series Magico Vento, which also blends horror and magical elements. In 2005 he made his debut as a writer for Tex with La pista degli agguati, published in that year's Maxi Tex. Two years later the publisher presented the fourteen-issue graphic novel Volto Nascosto, whose sequel, Shanghai Devil, began in 2010. The character Adam Wild reached newsstands at the end of 2014, followed in 2018 by Cani sciolti.