The company was founded in Rome in 1993 as Lizard Edizioni by Hugo Pratt, who helped designing the logo, Patrizia Zanotti and Marco Steiner. Since 2008 it's part of Rizzoli-Corriere della Sera (RCS) Media Group and its official name has been changed to Rizzoli Lizard Edizioni.

It's the owner of Corto Maltese rights.