Víctor of the Furtherature — Wikipedia

Victor de la Fuente ( April 12, 1927 in Llanes, Spain – July 2, 2010 , Mesnil-Saint-Denis) ^{[ first ]} is a Spanish comic book designer.

He is the older brother of Ramón and Chiqui de la Fuente.

• 1940: He went to live in Chile and began his career in Lopez Rubio’s studio. At the same time, he cooperates with magazines like Wonders , Arrows and palayos or Guys . When he leaves this country, it is to found an advertising agency in the United States, but he still continues to draw for the magazine The Peneca or for Dell Publishing At New York.
• 1959: he returned to Europe where he will work for British agencies Fleetway And DC Thomson .
• 1967: he meets Víctor Mora with whom he will draw Sunday From the following year for 12 episodes which will be published in France in wild tracks ( n ^O 1 to 18). We will find this series later in France-Soir as well as in two albums published by Hachette in 1975 ( My name is Sunday And Cursed judges ). Then he still returns to advertising, no doubt more lucrative.

We then find him in the Spanish review Crack with Haxtur And Mathaï-door taken up in albums at Dargaud and Hachette then for a few stories in Creepy And Eerie The Warren.

• mid -1970s: he drew Bitter , another western for Hachette and then illustrates The history of France in comics And Discover the Bible At Larousse. An experience made bitter due to problems on the exploitation of rights. In the same register, he will draw an educational comic book on the life of Charles de Gaulle.

He then participated in the creation of the review (To be continued) With its heroic-fantasy series Haggarth , always in the dark and white that he likes.

• 1979: with Jean-Michel Charlier, he draws Les gringos In Super AS (Fleurus ^{[ 2 ]} ). A reactivated hero after the death of his screenwriter by Guy Vidal in 1990 for two albums.
• 1973: he created alone Mortimer , an erotic western published in the eponymous review at Elvifrance. A character taken up in album, but strangely expurgated with the erotic part !!! For the same publisher, he will perform some erotic stories.
• 1983: he finds his friend Víctor Mora with Steel Angels appearing in Pilot And Charlie monthly , Then Iron heart At Bayard. Meanwhile, he also imagined Siberian At Albin-Michel and a series of religious comics for Bayard.
• 1987: he signs Francis Falko With François Corteggiani at Novédi, but this series will only know one album. In the 1990s, we see it alongside Patrick Cothias Joshua of Nazareth , Ou Alejandro Jodorowsky Jealous gods or Aliot which will be the subject of a plagiarism trial (for the scenario).

In the late 1980s, he also illustrated some novels by Philippe Ebly in the Green Library.
De la Fuente will also work for Sergio Bonelli and her emblematic character: Tex Willer that we can find in an album published recently as well as in Rodeo at semic.

In 1998-1999, he signed with Patrick Cothias a diptych dedicated to Jesus of Nazareth at Glénat ^{[ 3 ]} .

Despite the immensity and diversity of this work, his work is not always appreciated at its fair value when some consider it the largest Spanish designer of realistic comics.

Victor de la Fuente Meurt July 2, 2010 . It is buried in the Mesnil-Saint-Denis cemetery ^{[ 4 ]} (Yvelines).

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• Victor from Fountain (you. Par Henri Philippines), « Interview with Victor de la Fuente », Shedding crop , n ^O 23, October 1978 , p. 3-14 .
• Patrick Gaumer, «De la Fuente, Victor» , In Global comic book dictionary , Paris, Larousse, 2010 (ISBN  9782035843319 ) , p. 238 .
• Henri Filippini, ” I remember Víctor de la Fuente », dBD , n ^O 46, September 2010 , p. 104-105 .

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