Marco Abate was born in Milan in 1962. He is an Italian comics writer with published stories on books such as Lazarus Ledd, Samuel Sand and Martin Mystere. He is professor of Geometry at the Second University of Rome.

The thing that most amazes me in Alan Moore is his feeling for the structure of the stories.

Every one of his best works is perfectly balanced; is structured in such a way that each part plays perfectly its own role; and it is realized with an almost obsessive attention to details ensuring that each scene be meaningful both on its own and related with the whole story.

This is particularly true in the longer works, where re-reading reveals that there are no casual sentences, that every detail is a basic piece of a plan larger than the sum of its parts, in a constant cross-reference between the local and the global, the microcosm and the macrocosm and conversely... and if all this begins to feel sort of mystical-magical-like, it is not a coincidence either, I suspect...

And that bastard writes damned good stories. Just tell me the magical rituals needed to get the rest of "Big Numbers" and "Lost Girls", and I'll do anything.