Eduardo Teixeira Coelho (January 4, 1919 in
Angra do Heroísmo
Angra do Heroísmo (), or simply Angra, is a city and municipality on Terceira Island, Portugal, and one of the three capital cities of the Azores. Founded in 1478, Angra was historically the most important city in the Azores, as seat of the Roma ...
– May 31, 2005) was a
Portuguese comic book artist best known for his adventure series ''
Ragnar le Viking
Ragnar ( non, Ragnarr ) is a masculine Germanic given name, composed of the Old Norse elements ''ragin-'' "counsel" and ''hari-'' "army".
Origin and variations
The Proto-Germanic forms of the compounds are "ragina" (counsel) and "harjaz" or " ...
''. In some of his early work he used the pseudonym Martin Sievre.
Born in
Terceira island, in the
Azores, Coelho's career began, when he moved to the Mainland Portugal. His most notable work there was for the magazine ''
Mosquito'', beginning in 1943. He moved to
Brazil in the 1950s and taught at the
Pan-American School of Art in
São Paulo. In 1955 he moved to
France and for the next several decades worked on a number of series, many of them for the magazine ''
Vaillant'', including ''Ragnar''.
Coelho died in
Florence, aged 86, where he had lived for several years.
External links
Lambiek Comiclopedia entry
BDzoom obituary
1919 births
2005 deaths
Portuguese comics artists
People from Angra do Heroísmo
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