Manfred Sommer (May 27, 1933 – October 3, 2007
) was a Spanish
comics
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artist
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, best known for the reporter comics series ''Frank Cappa''.
Career
Sommer was born at
San Sebastián
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.
He began his career as an informal pupil of
Jesus Blasco
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, and received creative support from the Blasco family during his young years.
Sommer's main influences were
Milton Caniff
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Biography
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,
Frank Robbins
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and
Hugo Pratt
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.
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Sommer created the series ''El Lobo Solitario'', ''Polux'', and ''El Tigre'', before launching his first great success in 1981, ''Frank Cappa'', which was published in the comics magazine ''Cimoc''.][ Joining the Spanish creators such as ]Jordi Bernet
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Career
He was born in Barcelona, the son of a Spanish comic book ar ...
, Antonio Segura
Antonio Segura (June 13, 1947 – January 31, 2012) was a Spanish comics writer.
Biography
Antonio Segura's earliest work appeared in the early 1980s after meeting the experienced artists José Ortiz, Luis Bermejo and Leopoldo Sanchez who we ...
, and José Ortiz, Sommer was part of the ambitious though short-lived Metropol initiative which published three magazines in the early 1980s, ''Metropol'', ''Mocambo'' and ''KO cómics''.
Bibliography of French titles
* ''Frank Cappa''
**1. ''Frank Cappa au Brésil'' (1984, Les Humanoïdes Associés, )
**2. ''Somoza et Gomorrhe'' (1986, Kesselring)
**3. ''Le dernier africain'' (1988, Kesselring)
**4. ''Viet-Song!'' (1989, Dargaud, )
References
Manfred Sommer publications in ''Métal Hurlant''
an
BDoubliées
Bedetheque
Footnotes
External links
on Lambiek Comiclopedia
"Manfred Sommer portarà una antologia de Cappa a la Massana"
''Diari d'Andorra'' article
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1933 births
2007 deaths
People from San Sebastián
Spanish comics artists
20th-century Spanish artists