Edmundo Fernández Ripoll, better known as Edmond (born 1938), is a Catalan comic book artist and illustrator, born in 1938 march in Barcelona.[1] His most famous creation was Jan Europa.[2]
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Career
The young Edmond works in a hardware store, selling T-shirt's by mail and as an assistant in an advertising agency till 1959 when is hired by Editorial Bruguera to adapt television characters as Rintintín, Bonanza, Daniel Boone or Bronco.[1] In the seventies also publishes romance stories in girls magazines like Celia, As de Corazones, Sissi, Sissi-gráfico o Sissi-juvenil and adaptations of books like Tom Sawyer and La capitana del Yucatán for Joyas Literarias Juveniles collection.[3]
Lately he works internationally for the British market (Adarés Anglians, How The West Was Won, The Handcuff Hotspurs, The Quest, Tyler the Tamer), French bande dessiné (Brigade Temporelle, Mike Nelson),[3] holandés (Elsje de Windt, Mimi, Meta de Bokesprong, Oberon),[1][4] Swedish market and even in Zaire.[3] In Spain, creates with the script of Víctor Mora Supernova (Súper Mortadelo, 1973) and with Andreu Martín Fantasía S. A. (Tío Vivo, 1975) and Los Titanes (Super Sacarino and Super Ases).
In 1976 creates Eva Star for Can Can[3] and in April 1979, Jan Europa, his more popular series, to Mortadelo.[1]
Similar to Jan Europa is Doctor Impossible in 1984. His last creation was Fede y sus colegas, dramón urbano por entregas, scripted by Jaume Ribera for the TBO magazine of Ediciones B.[2]
Style
Armando Matías Guiu wrote about this author
Edmond is a methodical, rhythmic, extremely correct cartoonist. Very cerebral. His style, photographic. When he draws a building, a situation, it is exactly as it exists in reality or as if there would be.[1]
Work
| Year | Title | Writer | Publication |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | Bonanza | Vicente Palomares | Tele Color (Editorial Bruguera) |
| 1969 | The Handcuff Hotspurs | Smash! (IPC Magazines) | |
| 1971 | Tyler the Tamer | Smash! (IPC) | |
| 1972 | Brigade Temporelle (Time Brigade) | Claude J. Legrand | Futura |
| 1973 | Supernova | Víctor Mora | Súper Mortadelo (Editorial Bruguera) |
| 197- | Los Titanes | Andreu Martín | Super Sacarino (Editorial Bruguera) |
| 1978 | Fantasía S.A. | Andreu Martín | Tío Vivo (Editorial Bruguera) |
| 1979 | Jan Europa | Mortadelo y Super Mortadelo (Editorial Bruguera) | |
| 1983 | Mimí | Jana (Sarpe) | |
| 1983 | Barracuda | Jana (Sarpe)[5] | |
| 1984 | Doctor Impossible | Mortadelo | |
| 1986 | Erika | Chicas (Editorial Bruguera) | |
| 1986 | Marga | Armando Matías Guiu | Chicas (Editorial Bruguera) |
| 1988 | Cinemateca TBO | Víctor Mora y Jaume Ribera | TBO (Ediciones B) |
| 1988 | ["Fede and his Colleagues," an urban drama in installments] | Jaume Ribera | TBO de Ediciones B.[2] |
| 198- | Supertrailers | Super Mortadelo (Ediciones B) | |
| 198- | Sindy | Edmond Ripoll | TBO (Editorial Bruguera) |
| 198- | La Tribu | Edmond Ripoll | TBO (Ediciones B) |
| 1989 | La vida crítica y la crítica de la vida | Jaume Ribera, Edmond Ripoll | TBO (Ediciones B) |
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