In 1979, he created "The Bloody Garden" based on a script by Henri Filippini for Pilote, then in an album at Dargaud. He then created "Nicéphore Vaucanson" for Okapi.
From 1987, Wininger, who is also a children's book illustrator, dedicated himself to adapting many novels for "Je Bouquine". He illustrated novels by Oscar Wilde, Conan Doyle, Calvino, Carroll, Balzac, Faulkner, Shelley, Stevenson, Saint-Exupéry, Du Maurier, Charlotte Brontë, etc.