Pedro Massano

Manuel Pedro Dias Massano Santos was a Portuguese journalist, editor, illustrator, author, critic and comic book promoter.

Life and career

Massano was born in Lisbon on 15 August 1948. He attended the Architecture course at ESBAL, during the 1970s. His first published comic was "BZZZ", which appeared in the supplement Mosca, in Diário de Lisboa, in 1972, signing then as Mané.
Throughout his career, he published a number of comic strips, across a number of publications, including Visão, Eco Regional and Selecções BD.
Massano died on 1 September 2025, at the age of 77.