Yra The Vampire is the main character from the eponymous series of erotic comic books. She was drawn by Leone Frollo and Rubino Ventura. Her 12-episodes fumetti series, titled Yra, published from 1980 to 1981 in Italy by Edifumetto. Yra is one of many such characters from the Italian erotic fumetti tradition begun around 1966. Other figures from the same era, and with similarly violent or erotic storylines, include Maghella, Lucifera, Biancaneve, Vartan, Zora la Vampira, Jacula, Sukia and Jolanda de Almaviva.