Antonio Segura (June 13, 1947 – January 31, 2012) was a Spanish
comics writer
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.
Biography
Antonio Segura's earliest work appeared in the early 1980s after meeting the experienced artists
José Ortiz,
Luis Bermejo and
Leopoldo Sanchez Leopoldo is a given name, the Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese form of the English, German, Dutch, Polish, and Slovene name, Leopold.
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who were looking for a scriptwriter untainted by the industry.
Taking this opportunity, he wrote a series for each of them ''
Hombre
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'', ''Orka'' and ''
Bogey'', respectively. With some effort, these became published, and joined in the wave of emerging Spanish adult comics that bloomed in the post-
Franco
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* Francisco Franco (1892–1975), Spanish general and dictator of Spain from 1939 to 1975
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era. ''Hombre'' began a successful run in the magazine ''Cimoc'', and Segura started collaborating with
Jordi Bernet, creating the amazone fantasy series ''
Sarvan'', also appearing in ''Cimoc''.
In 1983, Segura and a collective of artists including Bernet, Ortiz, Sánchez and
Manfred Sommer, made an attempt to establish a monthly comics periodical, on the premise of artists' freedom. It was named ''Metropol'' and bore the tag ''"Papeles falaces urbanos y criminales"'' (''Deceptive, Urban and Criminal Characters/Pages''). Several of Segura's series were featured, among them ''Morgan'' with Ortiz, and ''
Kraken
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'' with Bernet.
The latter was staged in a
dystopic city, also named ''Metropol'', above the sewers where the series' monster, the ''Kraken'', dwelled. The magazine was published for a total of 12 issues.
Later, Segura continued his prolific partnership with José Ortiz, resulting in a large body of work, including ''Las Mil Caras de Jack el Destripador'' (''The Thousand Faces of Jack the Ripper''), and the humorous sci-fi series ''Burton & Cyb''. In the early 1990s, he started the series ''
Eva Medusa'' with
Ana Miralles, a work which won two
Haxtur Awards. In the most recent years, Segura has worked for the
Italian comics
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market, creating two episodes of ''
Magico Vento'' and new stories for the character ''
Tex Willer
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''.
Awards
* 1993:
Haxtur Award, Best Long Comic Strip, for ''Eva Medusa''
* 1993:
Haxtur Award, Best Script, for ''Eva Medusa''
Notes
References
Segura publications in ''Métal Hurlant''BDoubliées
Bedetheque
External links
on TexBR
(Telling Stories) article by Segura
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1947 births
2012 deaths
Spanish comics writers
People from Valencia