Born in Puglia, when he was a teenager, he moved to Milan where he attended the Brera Academy and then the Cimabue Art Institute; he debuted as a cartoonist in 1964, drawing the last five albums of the western series "Capitan Audax" published by Editoriale Corno together with Sergio Montipò, with whom he will also produce "Cap Il Fumetto Capellone", comic series published by ErreGI since 1966 to 1967.