Fernando Fernández (illustrator)

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Fernando Fernández (born February 7, 1940 in Barcelona ; † August 9, 2010 there ) was a Spanish comic artist.

He began his career in 1956 in an illustration studio (Josep Toutain's Selecciones Ilustradas agency), which worked for French and American publishers. In 1958 he followed his parents to Argentina, where he drew for various magazines (including: Totem). At the same time, he also drew love romances for British magazines (including: Valentina) through the Toutain's agency. In 1959 he returned to Spain and worked from there for the British publisher Fleetway on war comics.

Fernández concentrated on illustration jobs and painting in the mid-1960s, but returned to comics in the 1970s. First he drew humorous comics for a while and for Diario magazine . Between 1973 and 1975 he created impressive black and white comics for the Spanish edition of the US magazine Vampirella , which helped ensure that the magazine enjoys a legendary reputation in comic circles; a German edition was published by Volksverlag . In 1976/77 he drew several didactic comics for Edition Afha. Further commissioned work for various publishers followed, including painting the cover of the first volume of the SF series Sigma Gigantik for the German Koralle publishing house . Fernández achieved his artistic breakthrough with the album Zora und die Hybernauten (German after a preprint in Schwermetall an album edition in Volksverlag). He created this author's comic in 1980/81, first for the Spanish magazine 1984 , then for Heavy Metal , the American sister magazine of Métal Hurlant (German: Heavy Metal ).

In 1982 he adapted Dracula in direct coloring for the Spanish edition of Creepy Bram Stoker's magazine (album edition on Toutain, 1984, the following year a French-language edition on Campus, in German in volumes 1 and 2 of the Bastei album series " Ghost stories presented" ). This was followed by adaptations of science fiction stories by Isaac Asimov for Bruguera , a collaboration with Carlos Trillo and other works that found international distribution. Due to a heart disease, he had to rely on assistants to complete his last comic works in the early 1990s. Fernández then limited himself to illustration work and painting. He died in 2010 at the age of 70 in Barcelona.

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  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Patrik Gaumer, Claude Moliterni: Dictionnaire Mondial de La Bande Dessinée , Larousse, 1994, ISBN 2-03-523510-3
  2. ↑ https://www.comics.org/issue/778866/
personal data
SURNAME Fernández, Fernando
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 2010
Place of death Barcelona