Isidre Monés Pons, also Isidro Monés (born 1947) is a Spanish

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Career

Isidro Monés was born in Barcelona, Catalunya. He started his career as an artist doing children's books, covers and trading cards. He joined the agency Selecciones Illustrada in the early 1970s and started drawing for

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in 1973. He was miscredited as 'Munes' in his early stories at Warren. At Warren he would do a number of horror stories for all three of Warren's horror magazines, ''

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''. His work included the art for the series ''Dr. Archaeus'', which ran in ''Eerie'' #54-61, as well as the art for a number of story adaptions including ''The Golden Kris of Hadji Mohammed'' by Frederick Moore, and "Oil of Dog" by Ambrose Bierce. Monés would leave Warren in 1976 and appeared in ''Commando'' and ''

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'' in Britain. He returned to Warren briefly in 1979, where he would draw the series ''Götterdämmerung'' in ''Eerie'' as well as a number of stand alone stories. He departed Warren once more, but would return for one final story in 1982 shortly before Warren's bankruptcy. His work in Bruguera books, advertising, SF comic and Spanish pulp is huge and continues working.

Selected bibliography

*''

'' issues 56–58,62,66,67,70,77,81,106,117,118,143 *''

'' issues 49,50,52,54-58,60,61,94,100,101 *''

'' issues 26,28-30,33,38,43,44,49,75-77

References

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

External links

Isidro Mones biography
on Lambiek Comiclopedia 1947 births Spanish comics artists Spanish children's book illustrators Spanish horror artists Spanish advertising artists and illustrators Spanish science fiction artists Living people {{Spain-artist-stub