Eduardo Barreto

Eduardo Barreto

Eduardo Barreto (* 1954 in Montevideo ; † December 15, 2011 there ) was a Uruguayan artist and comic artist .

Life

Barreto began his comic book career in 1979 in his native Uruguay when he drew the Sunday pages of the newspaper comic El Cid. Since the 1980s he worked as a professional comic book artist in the United States. He worked both as a pencil draftsman and as a revising ink draftsman.

From 1983 on, Barreto drew almost exclusively for DC Comics . There he was initially responsible for the Atari Force and Infinity Inc.

In the 1990s Barreto continued to work predominantly for DC, where he took over the drawing duties for the comic novel Under a Yellow Sun written by John Francis Moore . He was also a regular ink artist for the series The New Teen Titans as well as some one-shots such as Vengeance of Bane II or Huntress / Spoiler: Blunt Trauma and some mini-series such as Martian Manhunter: American Secrets (1992), Man-Bat (1996) or Gotham Nights II (1995) and often did the job of a guest draftsman or artist for individual issues of series such as Robin , Superman , Martian Manhunter , Batman , Xero , Detective Comics or Justice League Quarterly .

He has also overseen series such as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark for Claypool Comics , The Long Haul series for Oni Press and the Marvel Knights series for Marvel Comics . In 2006 he took over the comic strip Judge Parker , which appeared in several US daily newspapers and which he drew to the end - apart from an illness-related break of several weeks during which he was represented by Graham Nolan .

Barreto lived in Montevideo with his wife Alice Barreto, with whom he had three children (Diego, Andrea and Gullerno).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Murió el dibujante Eduardo Barreto - Fin" on www.montevideo.com.uy from December 15, 2011, accessed on December 15, 2011