Rafael López Espí

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Rafael López Espi
Rafael López Espi.jpg
Biographical information
Born: 1937
Died:
Nationality: Mini spain.gif Spanish
Occupation: Cover Artist
Website: López Espí


Rafael López Espi is a Spanish artist.

Biography

Rafael López Espi began his career in 1953, drawing war stories for the publisher "Editorial Símbolo". His work also appeared in the press, varying from comics ('La Atlántida', 'Los Tambores del Bruc' in Solidaridad Nacional) to illustrations (in La Prensa). After having drew comics for the color supplement of the comics revue "La Prensa", he did comics for the British magazine "Glamour" and starts illustrared western titles like 'Rex Raven', 'Billy McGregor' and 'Riffle' as well as war and romance stories for the British "Fleetway" .

In the mid-1960s, he did western stories for the collection "Historias del Oeste" before working for the publisher "Vértice" as cover artist for its various series such as "Flash Gordon", "The Phantom", "Secret Agent X-9" and "Mandrake the Magician".

After sevreal years out of the comics, he collaborates in the Swedish agency "Dalger Press" in 1992 and created the comic "Conny" in the Swedish magazine Min Häst, also reprinted by the German "Bastei Verlag".

Mandrake covers

Links

  • [1], interview for Spanish comics site Tebeosfera.
  • [2], list of various.
  • [3], Wikipedia Spain article.