Selecciones Ilustradas (sometimes known as ''S.I.'') is a Spanish art agency founded by
Josep Toutain Josep is a Catalan language, Catalan masculine given name equivalent to Joseph (Spanish ''José'').
People named Josep include:
* Josep Bargalló (born 1958), Catalan philologist and former politician
* Josep Bartolí (1910-1995), Catalan painter ...
.
Warren Publishing
Selecciones Ilustradas is probably most well known in America due to its connections with
Warren Publishing
Warren Publishing was an American magazine company founded by James Warren (publisher), James Warren, who published his first magazines in 1957 and continued in the business for decades. Magazines published by Warren include ''After Hours (magazin ...
, where S.I.'s artists drew hundreds of stories between 1971 through 1983. The deal with Warren and S.I. began in 1971 when Toutain met with Warren publisher
Jim Warren.
S.I.'s artists began appearing in Warren magazines starting in
Vampirella
Vampirella () is a fictional vampire superheroine created by Forrest J Ackerman and comic book artist Trina Robbins in Warren Publishing's black-and-white horror comics magazine ''Vampirella'' #1 (Sept. 1969), a sister publication of ''Creepy'' ...
11 in May 1971.
By 1973 S.I. artists provided the majority of the covers and interior stories in Warren's magazines, a dominance that continued until the late 1970s. S.I. artists also contributed to Warren rival
Skywald
Skywald Publications was an American publisher of black-and-white comics magazines, primarily the horror fiction, horror anthologies ''Nightmare'', ''Psycho'', and ''Scream''. It also published a small line of comic books and other genre magazine ...
throughout the early to mid-1970s.
Artists
Artists associated with Selecciones Ilustradas include:
In fiction
The cartoonist
Carlos Giménez wrote a fictionalized account on his stint at the studios in his series ', where a thinly-veiled depiction of the studio was given the name ''Creaciones Ilustradas''.
References
Talent agencies
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