About the Author
Manuela Santoni is an illustrator and a cartoonist from Rome, Italy. Born in 1988,
she studied art at Rome’s Liceo Artistico (High School of the Arts). In 2012 she
received a degree in contemporary art history from Sapienza Università di Roma
(Sapienza University of Rome). She also attended Scuola Romana dei Fumetti
(the Roman School of Comics), and in 2013 she received a master’s degree in
illustration at Ars in Fabula in Macerata, Italy. Passionate about graphic novels and
comics, Santoni works as a freelancer, creates books for children, and publishes
her online comic
Nowhere Fast
at Verticomics. She has also illustrated the young
adult stories
Girl R-Evolution
by Alberto Pellai (De Agostini, 2016) and
Storie proprio
buffe
by Paul Jennings (Il Castoro, 2016). She lives in Fonte Nuova, a community in
the countryside of Rome.
Acknowledgments
Thanks to those who helped me to realize this graphic novel. To Mara Barbuni,
who assisted me on the historical facts of Jane’s life. To Veronica He, who was my
official photographer. To Eleonora Delprato and Claudio Lodi. To the friends who
supported me. And above all, to BeccoGiallo.
—M.S.
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