Luis Bermejo (born 1931 in
Madrid
, full name Luis Bermejo Royo,
frequently credited as Bermejo), is a Spanish
illustrator and comics
artist known for his work published in Spain, Italy
, Great Britain
, and the United States
. He has illustrated a number of novels, and
worked for a while with
DC Comics.
Biography
A sample of Bermejo's work, from
Creepy #71
Bermejo initially learned the trade as the assistant of Manuel
Gago, before he began his comic book artist career in Britain in
the late 1950s when through the agency A.L.I., he worked in the
titles
Girls Crystal and
Tarzan Weekly. He worked
on
Thriller Picture,
John Steel,
War,
Battle Picture Libraries, and
Pike Mason in the
early 1960s. In 1962 he started drawing the war-themed comic strip
Mann of Battle for
The Eagle, and would draw the
strip
Heros the Spartan for that title in 1963. Later in
the 1960s he would draw the super hero
Johnny Future. For
much of the 1960s, Bermejo worked out of a studio in Valencia,
Spain for the agency Bardon Arts with other artists including
Jose Ortiz, Miguel Quesada,
and Emilio Frego. These artists including Bermejo started working
with Italian agent Pierro D'Ami in 1968, where they would do many
paintings for books and magazines. During this period Bermejo would
do a number of comic strips for the magazines
Tell Me Why,
Once Upon a Time,
Look and Learn and
Tiny
Tots.
In 1974 Bermejo, along with fellow Valencia Studio artists José
Ortiz and Leopoldo Sanchez joined the agency
Selecciones Illustrada and soon
started working for
Warren
Publishing in U.S.A. Bermejo quickly became one of the most
prolific artists for Warren, and would draw a total of 78 stories
from 1974 through 1983, more than any other artist except for José
Ortiz and
Esteban Maroto. Highlights
of Bermejo's period with Warren included a full issue of
Creepy (issue 71) dedicated to him,
as well as the role of the primary artist for
The Rook,
which was Warren's most well known recurring character after
Vampirella. Bermejo would also
draw the serial
The Fox in
Vampirella in 1981 -
1982. He would win the award for Best All Around Artist at Warren
in 1981.
Bermejo would write and draw an adaption of
El Señor de los
Anillos (
The Lord of the
Rings) in Spain in 1980. After Warren's collapse, he would
draw for
Skorpio and
Lancio in Italy, as well as
Relatos Nuevo Mundo,
Metropol and
Zona
84 in Spain. He also created comics adaptations from the works
of
Isaac Asimov and
Raymond Chandler.
Sources
- David A. Roach and Jon B. Cooke, The Warren
Companion
- Footnotes
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