Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri is the creator of Druuna, the hyper-erotic heroine of his series of post-apocalyptic graphic novels. And not just graphic in the artistic sense, but in the sexual sense as well.

In Serpieri's series-launching book Morbus Gravis, Druuna is introduced as a survivor of a society that has been undone by an incureable, transforming disease.

As the story set forth in the opening publication ends, the Earth is revealed to have been even more terribly ravaged than originally imagined.

Subsequent books in the eight-part series involve less of the sociological impact of the pandemic and begin to relate a succession of intense, erotic, pornographic encounters with Druuna either acting as willing participant or submitting as an overcome victim.

The exquisite artistic talents of Serpieri make the Druuna series of graphic novels a rare and wickedly engaging group of darkwave 'pillow books' for those with a taste for fetish art and explicit sexual images.

Serpieri has been featured prominently in Heavy Metal.