Rocca/Corpus Christi. Original plate #23 from album T1 "Le shérif unijambiste". A quality work with a very successful atmosphere. India ink and graphite circa 1991. TBE+. 32 X 43 cm Georges Ramaïoli (1945), alias Rocca, learns to read from comics. He followed advanced technical studies and wasted some fifteen years of his life in administration. He really began his career in comics in 1974. At a signing session, he showed his western illustrations to Jean Giraud, one of his idols. Giraud entrusted him with the illustration of a western scenario, which was published, on Wolinski's initiative, in "Charlie Mensuel". The following year, he met scriptwriter René Durand, with whom he created "La terre de la bombe". 1976 saw the birth of "L'indien français", a peculiar western tinged with science fiction and fantasy, published for "Circus" magazine. His first western series, "Corpus Christi", appeared in 2 volumes, featuring a one-legged Sheriff. Fascinated by history and stories, this author carries out extensive documentary research for each of his albums: the life of the Zulus as illustrator for "Zoulouland", the Gallo-Roman period for "Vae victis", or the Mongol period with "Le Khan" as scriptwriter, under the pseudonym of Rocca. Westerns are one of his favorite themes. With Thierry Girod on the drawing board, he wrote the adventures of the bounty hunter "Wanted". In 1995, in collaboration with cartoonist Christophe Bec, he tackled the American legend with "Princesse rouge". In the same niche, thanks to Soleil, he fulfilled a childhood dream by adapting James Fenimore Cooper's novels into comics, with the 6-volume "Saga de Bas de cuir" series. In 2003, while continuing with "Zoulouland", he produced "Colorado" with Jean-Yves Mitton for Éditions Carpe Diem. Influenced by Giraud, this author moves with ease from science fiction to the historical genre, from the western to adventure.