Walter driver

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Walter Driver (born December 10, 1939 in Santa Fe , Argentina ) is an Argentine cartoonist and illustrator .

life and work

Driver, who was already producing illustrations for various magazines at the age of 18, completed an art degree in Buenos Aires . His first comic titled Tee Howard , which was very much based on the style of Milton Caniff , he published in 1958. In the following year, he continued the Ernie Pike series created by Hugo Pratt on texts by Héctor Germán Oesterheld . He traveled to Milan with Pratt in 1962 , settled in Paris a year later and returned to Argentina in the mid-1960s. During this time, he drew comics such as Robert Gaillard and Mandrin in addition to illustrations . In the late 1960s, he began working with Greg , who acted as a writer, to draw various short stories and the crime series Cobalt for the magazine Tintin . In the mid-1970s, the crime series Harry Chase was created in collaboration with the author Claude Moliterni . In the 1980s, the medieval series Le Casque et la Fronde was created in collaboration with François Corteggiani . In 2000, he drew the comic book Mon Nom n'est pas Wilson for the Casterman publishing house based on Carlos Trillo's text .

Between 1981 and 1984, five German albums from the Harry Chase series were published by Driver at Carlsen Verlag .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Walter Driver on lfb.it (Italian) , accessed on June 1, 2012
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Andreas C. Knigge: Comic Lexikon . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 189.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Walter Driver on lambiek.net (English) , accessed on June 1, 2012
  4. ↑ Walter Driver on comicguide.de , accessed on August 24, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Driver, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian comic book artist and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Fe , Argentina