This is a first: Rick Veitch with an article about a road trip to an Italian comic convention where he got to meet Moebius and Hugo Pratt. There’s a mention in the article about Hector Oesterheld, widely reckoned to be a great comic writer who is almost unknown in English.

(Heavy Metal issue #47, February 1981 – Page 76 The Tip of the Iceberg at Lucca 14 by Veitch)