Robin Wood (24 January 1944 – 17 October 2021) was a

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an comic book writer and author. He is mostly known for his classical work in

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and his later work in European comics.

Biography

Born to a family of Australian-Paraguayan origins in 1944, Wood spent his childhood between Paraguay and Argentina with his mother, before leaving to do various jobs, such as dishwasher, truck driver, salesman, wood chopper, journalist and factory worker in those two countries as well as in Brazil. Anne Whitehead's 1997 book on New Australia, ''Paradise Mislaid'', provides a chapter on Robin Wood's childhood with his extended Australian-Paraguayan family. Wood settled in

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while working as a correspondent for Argentine newspaper ''El Territorio'', and worked a series of unqualified jobs before he started writing scripts for popular comic book publishing company ''Columba''. His first published work was ''Aquí la retirada'', illustrated by his friend

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, in the magazine ''D'artagnan'', and would soon become one of the most important comic writers not only of Argentine comics, but that of

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. In the 1980s Wood moved to Europe, where he continued with his writing success, especially in Italy, where he won the '. Wood settled in Denmark with his Danish wife Anne-Mette and their children. Wood died on 17 October 2021 at the age of 77 in

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, Paraguay.

Works

Among Wood's most important works are ''

Nippur de Lagash ''Nippur de Lagash'' ( en, Nippur of Lagash) is an Argentine historical comic series, published between 1967 and 1998. It is set in the 23rd century BC (according to the short chronology), about a fictional homonym warrior of Sumer, created by ...

'' (1967, art by Olivera), ''Dennis Martin'' (1967), ''

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'' (1980, Alberto Salinas), ''Savarese'' (1978,

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), ''Mark'', ''Big Norman'', ''Martin Hel'', ''Merlin'', ''Wolf'', ''Gilgamesh el inmortal'' (Olivera), ''Morgan'', ''Dax'', ''Los Amigos'', ''El Cosaco'', ''Aquí la Legión'', ''Mojado'' and ''Helena'', and the humour comics of Pepe Sánchez and ''Mi novia y yo'', both illustrated by Carlos Vogt.

References

External links

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''Blancas Murallas'' by Ariel Avilez and Germán Lanzillotta Paraguayan people of Australian descent Paraguayan comics writers Argentine comics writers 1944 births 2021 deaths Paraguayan emigrants to Denmark Paraguayan expatriates in Argentina {{comics-writer-stub