Ricardo Garijo
Encyclopedia
Ricardo Garijo is an award winning author
and artist
from Argentina
, best known for his long career in comics.
before moving to European publications in the 1990s.
Since 1981, his work has gained an international audience in the Scottish war magazine, Commando
. He is also co-publisher of his own comic magazine, Gurbos, which often deals with serious social themes.
In 2004, Garijo's first novel, El Fuego (The Fire) won the Honor's Prize from the Buenos Aires Writer's Society.
A year earlier, he painted the politically aware card series, Don't Let It Happen Here for Monsterwax
. That series gained notoriety for profiling little known international atrocities, many of which went on to become well known news stories (like modern day slavery in Africa and honor killings in the Middle East). He has produced other trading card
s for the same company including The Art of H. G. Wells, three series adapting three of Well's books: The Time Machine
, The Island of Dr Moreau and The War of the Worlds
.
Garijo continued to paint and one of his last works was another novel. It is said to be about his father's experiences as a prisoner in the Nazi concentration camp of Mauthausen.
He died on October 3, 2009 and is survived by his wife Adriana and their three children.
Author
An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...
and artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
from Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
, best known for his long career in comics.
Biography
Garijo became known outside his homeland in the early 1980s through his work at D. C. ThomsonD. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd
D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd, is a publishing company based in Dundee, Scotland, best known for producing The Dundee Courier, The Evening Telegraph, The Sunday Post, Oor Wullie, The Broons, The Beano, The Dandy and Commando comics...
before moving to European publications in the 1990s.
Since 1981, his work has gained an international audience in the Scottish war magazine, Commando
Commando Comics
Commando For Action and Adventure, formerly known as Commando War Stories in Pictures, and colloquially known as Commando Comics, are a series of British comic books that primarily draw their themes and backdrops from the various incidents of the World Wars I and II...
. He is also co-publisher of his own comic magazine, Gurbos, which often deals with serious social themes.
In 2004, Garijo's first novel, El Fuego (The Fire) won the Honor's Prize from the Buenos Aires Writer's Society.
A year earlier, he painted the politically aware card series, Don't Let It Happen Here for Monsterwax
Monsterwax
Monsterwax is a trading card company that specializes in Science Fiction and horror themes. It was established in 1992, making it the oldest American card company still in business exclusively producing non-sports sets. Many trading card companies like Topps are corporate subsidiaries that...
. That series gained notoriety for profiling little known international atrocities, many of which went on to become well known news stories (like modern day slavery in Africa and honor killings in the Middle East). He has produced other trading card
Trading card
A trading card is a small card, usually made out of paperboard or thick paper, which usually contains an image of a certain person, place or thing and a short description of the picture, along with other text...
s for the same company including The Art of H. G. Wells, three series adapting three of Well's books: The Time Machine
The Time Machine
The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 for the first time and later adapted into at least two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations. It indirectly inspired many more works of fiction...
, The Island of Dr Moreau and The War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds is an 1898 science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells.The War of the Worlds may also refer to:- Radio broadcasts :* The War of the Worlds , the 1938 radio broadcast by Orson Welles...
.
Garijo continued to paint and one of his last works was another novel. It is said to be about his father's experiences as a prisoner in the Nazi concentration camp of Mauthausen.
He died on October 3, 2009 and is survived by his wife Adriana and their three children.
External links
- Monsterwax pages for The Art of H. G. Wells and The War of the Worlds
- Entrevista a Ricardo Garijo, Prensa Espacial, February 26, 2008
- Commando Artist Ricardo Garijo, Commando official site, October 8, 2009