A true visionary, with a fluid line and an uncanny sense of colour and composition, Pazienza's innovative graphic style served up stories that were iconoclastic, outrageous, humorous and deeply personal, often based on himself and his microcosm of friends and collaborators. Pazienza was a revolutionary cartoonist who ushered an underground sensibility to Italian and European comics, breaking from the more staid tradition of genteel adult (and children's) graphic albums.