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He began working for a local publisher writing guidebooks.

Returning to his fondness for comics, he wrote a Maltese romance comic named Imħabba Vera (" True Love "), one of the first art-comics in the Maltese language.

" Because Malta has no history of comics, comics weren't considered something for kids ," he told The Village Voice.

" In one case, for example, the girl got pregnant and she went to Holland for an abortion.

Malta is a Catholic country where not even divorce is allowed.

It was unusual, but it's not like anyone raised a stink about it, because they had no way of judging whether this was appropriate material for comics or not.