RanXerox New York 1

Tanino Liberatore is an Italian artist whose anatomical, muscular painted style emerged from the Frigidaire magazine scene of the early 1980s. With writer Stefano Tamburini he created RanXerox, a violent, post-punk science-fiction serial that became one of the defining European comics of its decade. Liberatore’s extravagant figuration — drawn with anatomical-study precision and aggressive colour — has influenced generations of painter-cartoonists and illustrators.