Víctor Mora (comic author)

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Víctor Mora i Pujades (born June 6, 1931 in Barcelona , Spain , † August 17, 2016 ) was a Spanish author and comic book writer .

life and work

At the age of 20, Mora was already working as a translator for a publishing house in Barcelona. In 1956, under the pseudonym Victor Alcazar, he created the figure of Capitán Trueno drawn by the comic artist Ambrós (Miguel Ambrosio) . In 1958 El Jabato followed with the draftsman Francisco Darnis.

In 1968 he realized Roldán sin Miedo with the draftsman Adolfo Usero .

With the comic series Dani Futuro created in 1969 , Mora became known beyond the borders of Spain in the early 1970s. This science fiction series, drawn by Carlos Giménez , with whom Mora had previously created Delta 99 (German at Kauka), which was first published in the Spanish magazine Gaceta Junior , but then also in the French magazine Tintin , comprises seven albums which are not completely available in German (the series was published in Germany in Zack , as well as three albums by Semic-Verlag).

In 1974 he began to work for Pilote , where he contributed, among other things, the fantasy series Arcane (draftsman: Jaime Brocal Remohi ) and Les Chroniques de l'Innommé (draftsman: Luis Garcia ). At the same time, he joined Pif Gadget in 1975 , for whom he initially wrote Amicalement vôtre , and from 1976 also Taranis, Fils de la Gaule (both with the illustrator Raffaele Carlo Marcello ). Amicalement vôtre is an adaptation of the British television series The 2 . The Western Sunday , drawn by Víctor de la Fuente , also started in 1975 (German, also in Zack and in its accompanying object, the Zack Parade paperback series published by Koralle-Verlag ).

In addition, Mora worked with the illustrator Francisco Hidalgo (Doctor Niebla) , among others .

In 1978 Mora wrote the scenario for the comic Felina drawn by Annie Goetzinger , an erotic fin-de-siècle novel that was published in German by Volksverlag . In the following year he started the SF series Gigantik together with the illustrator José Cardona , this time directly on behalf of the German comic magazine Zack ( Zack was only a licensee of his previous series there ). With the illustrator Alfonso Font he developed a second series for Zack with les Compagnons d'Atlantis , of which only one short story was published in the French Zack edition superAS due to the discontinuation of the magazine and its international sister magazines .

Further series followed in the 1980s: 1982 for Charlie magazine the series Die Rostlosen ( Les inoxydables , drawings by Antonio Parras , German at Splitter), 1983 for Pilote Les Anges d'acier with Víctor de la Fuente (German at Feest) and in 1986, again with Fuente, the political thriller La Sibérienne for L'Écho des Savannes magazine . Finally, La Guerra Civil Española , a series about the Spanish civil war , was created for Cimoc magazine . Here too, Victor de la Fuente acted as a draftsman. In addition, Mora continued in the second half of the 1980s Capitán Trueno (German at Arboris).

For Carícies d'un desconegut , Mora received the Premio Fiter y Rossell in 1998 . In addition to the comics, he has also published the novel Die Platanen von Barcelona (Les platanes de Barcelone) in German.

Trivia

Víctor Mora appears as a supporting character in the 2010 graphic novel El invierno del dibujante (German: The draftsman's winter ) by Paco Roca , which covers the short-lived comic magazine Tío Vivo and the life of Spanish comic artists in the 1950s.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Víctor Mora (Victor Alcazar) . Fondazione Franco Fossati, lfb.it, accessed on August 18, 2016 (Italian).
  2. ^ Luigi Benedicto Borges: Muere Víctor Mora, novelista y creador del 'Capitán Trueno' . Obituary in El Mundo , August 17, 2016, accessed August 18, 2016 (Spanish).
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Víctor Mora Victor Alcazar . Lambiek, July 14, 2016, accessed August 18, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Andreas C. Knigge: Comic Lexikon . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , pp. 337f.
  5. ↑ Mora dans Pilote . BDoubliees.com, accessed August 18, 2016 (French).
  6. ^ Mora dans Vaillant et Pif . BDoubliees.com, accessed August 18, 2016 (French).
  7. ↑ Patrik Gaumer, Claude Moliterni: Dictionnaire Mondial de La Bande Dessinée , Larousse, 1994, ISBN 2-03-523510-3
  8. ^ Víctor de la Fuente . Lambiek, April 9, 2012, accessed August 18, 2016.
  9. ^ Víctor Mora Pujadas. sol-e.com, archived from the original on February 2, 2013 ; Retrieved August 18, 2016 (Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Mora, Victor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mora i Pujades, Victor; Mora Pujadas, Víctor; Alcázar, Víctor (pseudonym); Mulberry, Vincent (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish author and comic book writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona , Spain
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 2016