Fernando Fernandez (comics)

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name = Fernando Fernandez


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Fernando Fernandez (born 1940) is a Spanish comic book artist.

Biography

Fernandez was born in Barcelona, Spain in 1940. In 1956 Fernandez joined the well known Spanish agency Selecciones Illustradas, at the age of 16. From 1958 through 1964 Fernandez worked on war comics (including "Air Ace" and "War Picture Library") and romance comics (including "Valentine", "Roxy" and "Marilyn") for British publishers. He also paintedcovers for paperbacks and picture libraries like "Commando" and "Chiller". Fernandez left the comics industry for a period of time in the 1960s, returning in 1970. He drew the strip "Mosca" from 1970 to 1973.Cite web|last=Lambiek Comiclopedia|title= Fernando Fernandez |url= http://lambiek.net/artists/f/fernandez_fernando.htm]

Fernandez started working for Warren Publishing in 1973 due to his connections with Selecciones Illustradas. Unlike many of the Spanish artists from S.I., Fernandez both wrote and drew his stories. During his period with Warren from 1973 to 1975 a total of 11 of these stories were made, all of which were published in "Vampirella" (issues 28-32,35-6,40-3). The story "Rendezvous" (issue 35) was included in a list of the top 25 Warren stories of all time in the book "The Warren Companion" by author David A. Roach. Fernandez won a Warren Award in 1975 for Best Artist/Writer on the story "Goodbye My Love, Goodbye" (issue 41). An additional story written by Fernandez, but drawn by Jose Miralles appeared in issue 57 of "Vampirella" in 1977. Warren would later reprint three additional Fernandez stories originally done in Spain in "Eerie" in 1978 (issue 94), 1980 (issue 117) and 1981 (issue 118).

After Warren, Fernandez worked on french educational comics for Afha as well as the "Cuando el Comic es Arte" series for Jose Toutain. He also worked on the series "Circulos" in 1979 and "Zora y los Hibernautas" in 1980, which would later be reprinted in the U.S. in the magazine "Heavy Metal". In 1982 he drew the comic version of "Bram Stoker's Dracula" for the Spanish edition of "Creepy". He adapted Isaac Asimov stories in 1983 for the book "Firmado por: Isaac Asimov", and collaborated with Carlos Trillo to create the medieval fantasy "La Leyenda de las Cuatro Sombras" for Zona 84".

He would later adapt Asimov again with "Lucky Star" in 1989. Fernandez eventually left the comics field in the 1990s to focus exclusively on painting.

Selected Bibliography

* "Vampirella" issues 28-32,35-36,40-43 (1973-1975)
* "Eerie" issues 94,117,118 (1978,1980-1981)
* "Circulows" (1979)
* "Zora" (1980)
* "Firmado Por: Isaac Asimov" (1983)
* "Heavy Metal" (1984)
* "Lucky Star" (1989)

ources

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

External links

* [http://lambiek.net/artists/f/fernandez_fernando.htm Fernando Fernandez biography] on Lambiek Comiclopedia