In addition to his long career as a designer for French and American newspapers, magazines, and companies, he was the author of a 14-year collage diary[permanent dead link‍] (1976–1989).

[1] He began studying graphic art and engraving techniques in 1947, but was arrested by the political arm of the police in 1951, and sent to a coal mine deep in the Gulag.

[citation needed] In 1964, after two short film features in England and Canary Islands, he started a 5-year association with French television, introducing a new graphic style.

[citation needed] After frequent study trips through Europe, Asia, and Africa, in 1966 he visited the United States and settled permanently in Manhattan in 1970, as a free-lance artist.

[citation needed] In 1974 he published, "The Student who Became King in Spite of Himself", his first book in English with Holt Rinehart & Winston incorporating his collage style into the illustrations.