Blas Gallego (born 1941 in

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) is a Spanish artist, painter and illustrator with a career spanning six decades. He has created and drawn comic books and strips,

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cards, and

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s, among other formats, for publishers in tens of countries. Gallego is internationally known for his specialization in

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Work history

Gallego learned artistic drawing while working for the movie advertisement industry in 1955–56, for companies such as

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, and

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, among others. In 1960 he founded a publicity company. From 1962 to 1966 he worked for Creaciones Editoriales, before going in 1966 to work for Selecciones Ilustradas, where he remained until 1968. The next year he moved to England, but came back to Barcelona to get married in 1973. Around that time, he drew the comic of ''

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'' (1974), started

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, lived for a few years in London and for a short while in Stockholm, and drew for publications in Germany, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Italy, Australia, Japan, among other countries. In 1977 he worked for the British magazine ''

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'' and for the German magazine ''Roman Woche''. In 1978 he drew for '' Woman's Weekly''. He also did the illustrations for the series ''Grandes Amantes'' ("Great Lovers"), commissioned for Neue Revue (Germany) and published in Norway, Sweden and in the Spanish weekly news magazine''

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'', images for the British magazine ''

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'' and calendars. In 1983, he published erotic paintings in Japan via Tank Incorporated. After that, he worked for more than 20 years for the United States market, making illustrations for

s and for the

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Holy Bible in 1990. He drew for ''

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'' as well. During this time, SQP Productions published a collection of his

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. He drew dozens of covers for

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' ''

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'' (also published in Scandinavia) and covers as well as regular pages for ''

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'' comics (1988–96). Later, he published role-playing game cards (1996) and a daily strip, ''Ben & Katie'' in the British '' Daily Star'' newspaper in 1998–99.

Bibliography

*''Flesh and Fire'' (1999) *''John Sinclair "Doctor Tod"'' (2004) *''John Sinclair "Sakuro"'' (2004) *''John Sinclair "Jason Dark"'' (2004) *''Gespenster'' (2004) *''Dolly'' (2005) *''Animal Rescue Unit'' (2007 – 4 books) *''Horse Angel'' (2007)

References

External links

Official website

Official oil painting page
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