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, at the time, not even divorce was 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."