A child of the tradition of Orient Express, of Lanciostory in the late 1970s, and then of l'Eternauta and Comic Art in the mid-1980s, he opened up the really big pot of adventure and historical reconstruction comics. Then Metal Hurlant, Torpedo, Seven. He is the last true protagonist of sketch artists and character designers, capable of drawing in any context, from the events of the Roman School of Comics to the sets of Paul Verhoeven and Martin Scorsese.