Ricardo Garijo

Ricardo Garijo is an award winning author and artist from Argentina, best known for his long career in comics. He became known outside his homeland in the early 1980s through his work at D. C. Thomson before moving to European publications in the 1990s.

Since 1981, his work has gained an international audience in the Scottish war magazine, "Commando". He is also co-publisher of his own comic magazine, "Gurbos," which often deals with serious social themes.

In 2004, Garijo's first novel, "El Fuego" (The Fire) won the Honor's Prize from the Buenos Aires Writer's Society.

A year earlier, he painted the politically aware card series, "Don't Let It Happen Here" for Monsterwax. That series gained notoriety for profiling little known international atrocities, many of which went on to become well known news stories (like modern day slavery in Africa and honor killings in the Middle East). He has produced other trading cards for the same company including "The Art of H. G. Wells", three series adapting three of Well's books: "The Time Machine", "The Island of Dr Moreau" and "The War of the Worlds".

Garijo continues to paint and is currently working on another novel. It is said to be about his father's experiences as a prisoner in the Nazi concentration camp of Mauthausen.

Bibliography

* "Planeta de Acero" (Steel Planet) – A daily science fiction comic strip for La Capital newspaper, Mar del Plata city (1979/1980)
* "Lomax – Un viaje al espacio profundo" (Lomax – Journey to the deep space) – A daily science fiction comic strip for La Razon newspaper, Buenos Aires (1981/1982)
* "Commando" (Illustrator since 1982)
* "Corcoveando" - Poetry book on horses Illustrated by Garijo (1985)
* "Carol in Jail" - Comic book released in Spain (1992)
* "Carol in Buenos Aires" - Comic published in Spain (1993)
* "Gurbos" - A comic magazine devoted to famous South American comic artists co-published with Raul Echegaray from 1997-2002)
* "Taller Integral de Historietas" (Making Comics) University textbook on how to make comics, co-written with Raul Echegaray (2001)
* "Diaro de Plaza Moreno" (Diary of Moreno Square) Graphic novel (2002)
* [http://www.monsterwax.com/HappenHereReview.html "Don't Let It Happen Here"] - Trading card series painted by Garijo (2003)
* "El Fuego" (The Fire) Novel, 2004
* [http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/allender/hgw1time.htm "The Art of H. G. Wells"] - Trading card series painted by Garijo (2005)

Awards

* 2004 Honor's Prize from the Buenos Aires Writer's Society, for "El Fuego". [http://www.hcdtandil.gov.ar/actas/todas/2005/25082005.html ]

External links

* [http://www.garijo.com.ar Official homepage]
* [http://www.monsterwax.com/timemachine.html Monsterwax pages for "The Art of H. G. Wells"] and " [http://www.monsterwax.com/waroftheworlds.html The War of the Worlds] "