Carlos Giménez (comics)
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Carlos Giménez (born 16 March 1941) is a Spanish
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.


Biography

Giménez was born in
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. His father, a welder, died shortly after his birth, and subsequently Giménez lived for years in an orphanage. Aged 17, he showed his drawings to Manuel López Blanco, who hired him as assistant for his works for Ibergraf agency. After 1962, he shared a studio with
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and Adolfo Usero, executing war stories for Editorial Maga and the series Buck Jones. After a period working for the Selecciones Illustradas agency at
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, in 1963 Giménez launched ''El Gringo'', a western series, for
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; for the same publisher he also worked to several romantic comics books. In 1967-1968 he worked at ''Delta 99'', a science fiction series, and produced several humour stories for the German market (Tom Berry and Kiko 2000). The following year, Giménez began his first famous series, Dani Futuro, with script by Víctor Mora: initially appearing in the magazine ''Gaceta Junior'', it lasted until 1975 after moving to the Belgian magazine ''
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'' in 1972. In 1975 Giménez began the autobiographical series ''Paracuellos'' for the magazine ''Muchas Gracias'', as well as a series about the first years of democratic government in Spain, which were later collected in the albums ''España Una...'', ''España Grande...'' and ''España Libre!''. Together with
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and Adolfo Usero (as Premia 78), in 1978 he started the ''Dossieres Mystère'' series in the magazine '' Pif''. His other series of this period include the conclusion of the erotic series ''Ulysses'' for the German magazine '' Pip'', ''Hom'' (an adaptation of
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' science fiction novel ''
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'') and ''Koulau el Leproso'' (adapting a short story by
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). He also contributed to the satirical weekly magazine ''
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''. In 1980 he began ''Érase una vez el futuro'' ("Once Upon a Time in the Future", also based on a Jack London story) for the Spanish version of ''1984''; for the same magazine Giménez produced ''Diarios de las estrellas'', based on
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's work. In 1982 Giménez launched his most famous series, ''Los profesionales'', depicting the economical background and personal deeds of people producing comics in Spain. In 1989 he published the first of the 51 ''Historias de sexo y chapuza'', short stories without a fixed character, about the use of sex and erotism in creative. His later works include ''Bandolero'' (1987); ''Une Enfance Éternelle (1991, script by
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), and ''Jonás, la isla que nunca existió'' (1992-2003), the latter published directly in the Internet, the adaptation of ''El capitán Alatriste'' (2005, with art by
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) and ''36-39. Malos tiempos'', set during the
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(2007-2008). His last work is a biography of Spanish comics artist José González. In 2016 "Paracuellos" was published for the first time in English in the United States by
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's EuroComics imprint.


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External links


Official website


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