Vartan is an Italian comic book

Italian comics

Italian comics are comics made in Italy. They are locally known as fumetto – plural form fumetti – although this latter term is often used in English to describe a specific comic genre . The most popular Italian comics have been translated into many languages...

 created and drawn by Sandro Angiolini

Sandro Angiolini

Sandro Angiolini was an Italian comics creator.In 1966 he was the first to illustrate one of Italy's most important adult comics, 'Isabella', written by Renzo Barbieri and Giorgio Cavedon...

 (1920-1985), and published in 200 issues between 1969 and 1977 by Furio Viano. Its genre was 'Western' and its main concern was the erotic adventures of its heroine.

Vartan is one of many such characters from the Italian 'fumetti

Fumetti

Fumetti is an Italian word which refers to all comics. In English, the term refers specifically to photonovels or photographic comics, a genre of comics illustrated with photographs rather than drawings. Italians call these fotoromanzi...

' tradition. Other female figures from the same era, and with similarly erotic preoccupations, include Zora la Vampira

Zora (vampire)

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, Maghella

Maghella

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, Biancaneve

Biancaneve

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, Lucifera

Lucifera

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, Jacula

Jacula (fumetti)

Jacula was the eponymous vampire in an Italian fumetti title. In common with Zora and Sukia, the series contained strong sexual imagery: together with her vampire husband Carlo Verdier, the predatory Jacula seduced the unwary and corrupted the innocent...

, Yra

Yra (vampire)

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, Jolanda de Almaviva, Sukia and Dylan Dog

Dylan Dog

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.