Ramaiolli/Illustrated original drawing in colors of dancing American Indians. Superb quality of execution for this artist in the line of Moebius. India ink and gouache. TBE+. 38 X 25 cm Born in Nice in 1945, Georges Ramaïoli learns to read with comics. He starts his career in 1974 during a signing session, he shows his western boards 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 the scriptwriter René Durand, with whom he created LA TERRE DE LA BOMBE. In 1976, a particular western tinged with science fiction and fantasy, L'INDIEN FRANÇAIS, published for the magazine "Circus", was born. The western is one of his favorite themes. Thanks to Soleil, he fulfills a childhood dream by adapting James Fenimore Cooper's novels into comics with the 6-volume series, the SAGA DE BAS DE CUIR. In 2003, while pursuing ZOULOULAND, he realizes with Jean-Mitton COLORADO to the Editions Carpe Diem. Influenced by Giraud, this author passes with ease from science fiction to historical genre, from western to adventure.