Ernesto Rudesindo García Seijas (1 June 1941 – 28 March 2023) was an

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comics artist.

Biography

García Seijas was born in

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, and at age 17 he made his debut in comics by providing art for the series ''Bill y Boss'', published in the Argentine magazine ''Totem''. Also in 1958 he started working for the magazine ''Bucaneros'' in the eponymous series, as well as for other publishers as artist and cover illustrator. In the 1960s and 1970s he worked with Hector G. Oesterheld at the magazines ''Frontera'', ''Hora Cero'', ''Misterix'' and '' Rajo Rojo'': titles he worked on include ''Tom de la Pradera '' and '' Leon Loco''. García Seijas later collaborated substantially for Columba, a publisher specializing in romantic comics books for women and in film adaptations; these include ''Helena'', created by Robin Wood, which was turned into a TV series in the 1980s. García Seijas also worked for Columba's main rival, Record, with adventure/mystery/western works such as '' Skorpio'' and ''Many Riley'' (written by Ray Collins), ''El Hombre de Richmond'' ("The Man of Richmond", script by Andrea Mantelli), ''La estirpe de Josh'' (written by Alfredo Grassi) and ''Los aventureros'' (script by Carlos Albiac). For Columba he drew ''Kevin'', also written by Robin Wood. García Seijas produced comics strips for the newspapers '' El Clarín'' ('' El Negro Blanco'', an erotic comic strip written by

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, 1987), ''

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'' (''Especies en Peligro'', written by Viviana Centol, 2000) and '' La Prensa'' (''Bardo''); ''El Negro Blanco'' later spawned the erotic-thriller series ''Flopi''. Most of these series were translated in Italy by Eura Editoriale in its magazines '' Skorpio'' and ''

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''. In 1990s García Seijas started to work directly for Eura Editoriale and then for

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, Italy's largest comics publisher. Among his series for Eura are ''Radzel'', fantasy comics written by Eduardo Mazzitelli (1999). García Seijas' first work for Bonelli was ''

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'' #80, written by

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. Later he entered the staff of regular artists working for

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, starting with the story "Polizia Apache" (in the ''Almanacco del West'' 2007), followed by his first story for the ongoing series in 2008 (#571, in May). In 2011 Bonelli published his Tex large-format one-shot ''Le iene di Lamont'' (2011), with script by Claudio Nizzi. García Seijas died on 28 March 2023, at the age of 81.Murió el dibujante Ernesto García Seijas

References

External links

Official website

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