A third chapter of the Winter World saga was also planned, titled Winter War. He continued working for the Argentine comic market, but focused on his work as a painter.Ī follow up to Winter World called Winter Sea was entirely written and drawn for Marvel Comics, but was never published due to changes of Marvel's policy on creator-owned books at the time. Zaffino’s last work in the US was a story written by Dixon for the 1996 Batman Black and White mini series. comics industry, where he is mostly known for his art in Punisher, Clive Barker's Hellraiser and The 'Nam for Marvel Comics. He did relatively little work in the U.S. During this time, Zaffino worked regularly with comics writer Dan Chichester on various comics, including Critical Mass, and Terror Inc.

They continued to collaborate on comics, producing the seminal Punisher graphic novels Kingdom Gone and Assassin's Guild, and a Savage Sword of Conan story titled The Horned God. On that trip, Zaffino met comics writer Chuck Dixon, and together they produced Winter World, a three part series for Eclipse. with Ricardo Villagran, who was working for Comico at the time. In the mid-1980s, Zaffino made a trip to the U.S. Zaffino made himself a recognised name in his country, working many years in important Argentine comics, like Nippur de Lagash. At the age of 16, he began working as an unpaid apprentice at the comics studios of Ricardo and Enrique Villagran in Buenos Aires, where his father had requested that they take him on. Zaffino spent a lifetime working as an artist in and out of comics. Jorge Rubén Zaffino (1959–2002) was a comic book artist born in Argentina.

Winterworld by Chuck Dixon