 In 1973 he won a national contest for cartoonists organized by the newspaper "" and started collaborating with the newspaper.In 1976 Panebarco had his breakout with the critically acclaimed noir-humorous series "Big Sleeping", which debuted in the magazine "Il Mago", and was later published in a large number of other publications.He later created other series, such as "Piccolo Lenin", an imaginary account of the Vladimir Lenin's childhood, and "Nick Martello", a satire of Communism.