Juan Zanotto
Juan Zanotto, (September 26, 1935 – April 13, 2005) was a comic book artist who was active in both Europe and Argentina. Born in Cuceglio in Turin, he moved with his family at thirteen to Argentina. There he studied at the "North American School of Art" (later the "Pan-American School of Art". In 1953 he started to work at Editorial Codex where he worked on stories by other authors, and in subsequent years did adventure comics, westerns and drew early stories for Tatin and The Phantom.
In 1955, with writing by Alfredo Grassi, he created Ric de la Frontera, and that same year began work on El Mundo del hombre rojo (Indian legends of North America). In 1958 he began an association with the English publisher Fleetway. In 1965 he took the position of Artistic Director at Editorial Codex and did various covers and illustrations. In 1974 he became artistic director of Ediciones Record. With Ray Collins he created the prehistoric Henga (Yor in Italian) using his and Diego Navarro's scripts, the western Wakantanka with scripts by Héctor G. Oesterheld, and the science fantasies Barbara and Nueva York año cero (in 1984 for la EPC di Roma) both written by Ricardo Barreiro, Cronicas del Tiempo Medio written by Emilio Balcarce and Penitenciario with scripts by Barreiro. The American publisher Eclipse Comics published Nueva York año cero and Cronicas del Tiempo Medio in the states in the late Eighties. in 1991 he did Warman, a graphic novel for Marvel.
External links
- Lambiek.net's biography the apparent source for this article.
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