Leopoldo Sánchez (12 August 1948 – 12 November 2021Homenaje a Leopoldo Sánchez (1948-2021)
) was a Spanish

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artist.

Career

Sánchez was born in 1948 in

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. Sánchez started his career in the comic book industry at the age of 14, as an assistant for the artist Gines Garcia. Throughout the 1960s he assisted the artists José Ortiz and Leopold Ortiz. He eventually started working on his own in Britain and France. This included work for the agency Bardon Art as well as Aredit. Leopold Sánchez was part of the Valencia Studio in Spain along with José Ortiz and Luis Bermejo and the three of them were part of a group that joined with the agency Selecciones Illustradas in 1974 to start work for

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 ...

. During his stay with Warren, Sanchez would work for all three horror magazines, ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

Vampirella Vampirella () is a 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'' and ''E ...

'' and would draw 50 stories in total. His story ''Godeye'' from ''Eerie'' No. 68 (written by Budd Lewis) was included among a list of the top 25 stories to ever appear in a Warren Publication by David A. Roach, author of the Warren Companion. He worked on the series ''The Spook'', ''The Unholy Creation'', ''The Freaks'', and ''The Pea Green Boat'' for ''Eerie'', and also drew three stories featuring Vampirella herself. In 1981, Sánchez created the series '' Bogey'' with

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 w ...

, which would be syndicated around the world. He also worked on the series ''El Justiciero Enmascarado'' in 1983.

Selected bibliography

*''Atletas'' (1965) *''El Quijote'' *''

'' issues 68,77,84–86,88–90,92,93,97–99 (1975–1978) *''

'' issues 58,60–65,67,68,70–77,79–82,85,87–89 (1974–1978) *''

'' issues 39–41,51,56,59, (1975–1978,1981,1982) * '' Bogey'' (1981)

References

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External links

Leopoldo Sanchez biography
on Lambiek Comiclopedia.
Leopoldo Sanchez and his series Bogey
on Fandecomix (in Spanish). {{DEFAULTSORT:Sanchez, Leopold 1948 births 2021 deaths People from Cartagena, Spain Spanish comics artists 20th-century Spanish artists