Baghera

In the late 1970s, the Italian publisher Elvifrance launched Baghera, a lushly painted series of 38 issues that ran from 1977 to 1980. Best known for the sumptuous, vividly colored artwork of painter Emanuele Taglietti, the series stands as a prime example of the publisher’s adult-oriented, fantasy-adventure comics, blending exoticism with a distinctive European visual style. Its legacy endures among fans of Italian fumetti for Taglietti’s striking, almost cinematic covers and interiors, which helped define the look of the era’s genre comics.