Carlos Pacheco

Carlos Pacheco (May 2009)

Carlos Pacheco (born November 14, 1961 in San Roque , Cádiz ) is a Spanish cartoonist and author.

Life and work

Pacheco, who comes from the Spanish province of Cádiz, began working as a full-time comic artist in the 1980s. He received his first engagements from the European publisher Planeta-DeAgostini Comics, for which he was primarily entrusted with the design of cover images and pin-ups as a contract draftsman.

Together with the author Rafael, Pacheco, whose drawing style is mainly characterized by its clean and dynamic lines, created the concepts for the mini-series Iberia Inc and Triada Vértice . Although he created the visual designs for both series and mitplottete as Rafael's co-author had Pacheco actual drawings for the published at the end booklets of Iberia Inc and Triada Vértice scheduling reasons his colleague Rafa Fonteriz ( Iberia Inc ) and Jesus Merino ( Triada Vértice ) left. Merino, who also works as an ink draftsman, became Pacheco's most important artistic partner with this collaboration.

Pacheco was able to gain a foothold on the American market after the American major publisher Marvel Comics became aware of his work on the Dark Guard series, published by Marvel's British subsidiary Marvel UK , and hired him in 1994 as an illustrator for the four-part mini-series Bishop . Together with author John Ostrander and Tuscher Cam Smith , he told a dark tale about the title character, a mutant anti-hero from the future. For Marvel's competitor DC-Comics , Pacheco took over some editions of the traditional sci-fi adventure The Flash (# 93, 94 and 99) , then written by Mark Waid . José Marzán Jr. was put at his side as an Inker .

With author Terry Kavanagh and Indian ink artist Cam Smith, Pacheco took over the drafting duties for two mini-series from Marvel's X-Men label in 1995. Also with Smith and with the author Warren Ellis , Pacheco put on a miniseries about the space adventurers Starjammers . Thereafter, Pacheco received drawing orders for the Marvel Comics-edited series Excalibur (1996), Fantastic Four (1997; # 415-416) and X-Men (1997-1998; # 62-75), the flagship title in Marvel's publishing program, which to this time was written by Scott Lobdell and Joe Kelly . Tom DeFalco (Fantastic Four) and Art Thibert (X-Men) stood by his side as ink draftsmen .

The twelve-part maxi series Avengers Forever from 1998 marked Pacheco's first collaboration with Kurt Busiek , who has been a frequent artistic partner of Pachecos ever since. Jesus Merino again acted as ink pen.

In 2000 Pacheco again took over the drawings for the science fiction classic Fantastic Four (Volume 3, # 35–50). He also co-wrote the series as the lead writer, a job that Rafael Marin and Jeph Loeb did one after the other . At the same time, Pacheco and his old friend Rafael Marin wrote a four-part mini-series entitled Inhumans , which José Ladrönn and Jorge Lucase implemented visually.

This was followed by the comic novel JLA / JSA: Virtue and Vice , written by David S. Goyer and Geoff Johns , and the series Arrowsmith (2003), a fantasy series written by Kurt Busiek and privately owned and published by WildStorm .

In 2004 Pacheco initially drew five issues of the series Superman / Batman (# 14-18), for which he was paired again with author Jeph Loeb, and finally became author Geoff Johns , together with Ethan Van Sciver , as an illustrator for the restarted author at the end of the year Series assigned to the superhero Green Lantern . In 2006 Pacheco got the job of regular draftsman for a year of Superman , the main series of the same name about the science fiction hero from the planet Krypton. His partner in this project was again Kurt Busiek.