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