Michael Manning:  Lumenagerie
                                             (1996 - Amerotica / NBM Publishing)  

     Not appropriate for children & adolescents.  Michael Manning is known for a number of graphic novels that have tested the boundaries of depicted sexuality in fantasy milieus.  This book collects instead single black-and-white artworks, most with all the same extreme adult themes and with a graphic design sensibility that would be less effective as part of a continuing narrative.  The drawings are not captioned.  There are 58 art-pages among the book's 80.  The rest are an interview with the artist and a number of double-page chapter breaks (the titles being Aviatrix, Domina, Canus, Servus, Gynandros, Equine and Noctura).  The four double-page art-pieces are not really disturbed by the split across the center.  Again, adult themes dominate the book, so it should be put away from children.

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