A highly acclaimed Italian comics scriptwriter of long standing, Alessandro Sisti (1960-present) started out his comics career at Staff di IF, a funny animal art studio tasked in the 1980s with various commercial franchises, both Disney and non. Coming into his own in the 1990s, Sisti earned especial acclaim for writing many early issues of Paperinik New Adventures , a series (reprinted today as IDW's Duck Avenger) bringing Donald Duck's superhero exploits into a more modern, scary, and serious environment. Following up on this popular triumph, Sisti went on to scribe long adventures starring the Junior Woodchucks and short ones featuring a wealth of Disney feature film characters, from the rats of Ratatouille to Jack Sparrow and the Pirates of the Caribbean . Apart from basic Disney comics work, Sisti has acted as a teacher of other Disney talents, at Milan's Accademia Disney, and has continued a wealth of non-Disney comics work--as both a historian and as an artist, for instance on a classic Anne of Green Gables comics adaptation. Rodolfo Cimino (1927-2012) was an Italian cartoonist who began working on Disney comics in 1958 and continued until 1976 when he committed full time to a political career. In 1987 he returned full-time to comics and in 1991 won the Prix Anaf for Best Writer and in 2007 won the Prix Papersera. Giorgio Cavazzano is an Italian artist that started his career at the age of 14 inking for Romano Scarpa producing stories for Disney with the characters Micke Mouse, Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck, and others. He is known for combining the traditional appearance of Disney characters with realistic illustration of technological gadgets and machinery.