Fernando Fernández (7 February 1940 – 9 August 2010)
Fernando Fernandez cartoonist dies at 70 (in Spanish) was a Spanish

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Biography

Fernández was born in

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. In 1956, aged 16, he joined the Spanish agency

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. From 1958 through 1964 Fernandez worked on war comics (including ''Air Ace'' and ''War Picture Library'') and romance comics (including ''Valentine'', ''Roxy'' and ''Marilyn'') for British publishers. He also painted covers for paperbacks and picture libraries like ''Commando'' and ''Chiller''. Fernández left the comics industry for a period of time in the 1960s, returning in 1970. He drew the strip ''Mosca'' from 1970 to 1973. Fernández started working for

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in 1973 due to his connections with Selecciones Illustradas. Unlike many of the Spanish artists from S.I., Fernández both wrote and drew his stories. During his period with Warren from 1973 to 1975 a total of 11 of these stories were made, all of which were published in ''

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'' (issues 28–32, 35–6, 40–3). The story ''Rendezvous'' (issue 35) was included in a list of the top 25 Warren stories of all time in the book ''The Warren Companion'' by author David A. Roach. Fernandez won a Warren Award in 1975 for Best Artist/Writer on the story ''Goodbye My Love, Goodbye'' (issue 41). An additional story written by Fernandez, but drawn by Jose Miralles appeared in issue 57 of ''Vampirella'' in 1977. Warren would later reprint three additional Fernandez stories originally done in Spain in ''

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'' in 1978 (issue 94), 1980 (issue 117) and 1981 (issue 118). After Warren, Fernández worked on French educational comics for Afha as well as the ''Cuando el Comic es Arte'' series for Jose Toutain. He also worked on the series ''Circulos'' in 1979 and ''Zora y los Hibernautas'' in 1980, which would later be reprinted in the U.S. in the magazine '' Heavy Metal''. In 1982 he drew the comic version of ''Bram Stoker's Dracula'' for the Spanish edition of ''Creepy''. He adapted Isaac Asimov stories in 1983 for the book ''Firmado por: Isaac Asimov'', and collaborated with

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to create the medieval fantasy ''La Leyenda de las Cuatro Sombras'' for Zona 84''. He would later adapt Asimov again with ''Lucky Star'' in 1989. Fernández eventually left the comics field in the 1990s to focus exclusively on painting.

Selected bibliography

* ''

'' issues 28–32, 35–36, 40–43 (1973–1975) * ''

'' issues 94, 117, 118 (1978, 1980–1981) * ''Circulows'' (1979) * ''Zora'' (1980) * ''Firmado Por: Isaac Asimov'' (1983) * '' Heavy Metal'' (1984) * ''Lucky Star'' (1989)

Sources

*The Warren Companion, by David A. Roach and Jon B. Cooke

References

External links

Fernando Fernández biography
on Lambiek Comiclopedia *
Official website
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