Carlos Pino (born 1940) is a Spanish comics artist who has illustrated Spanish, British, and American comics. In a quarter of a century he provided the art for around three hundred issues of ''

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'', for which he still continues to work (as of December 2020). Pino began his career at the age of 14, when he was paid for art he had submitted to Spanish comic ''Pumby''. In the late 1950s he worked professionally for other comics including ''Duwarin'' before becoming one of the founders of short-lived comic ''Toucan''. In the 1960s he worked for British comic ''

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''. Pino regularly collaborated with

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under the collective pseudonym "Carvic", working for Spanish war comic '' Chío'' and later for British comics ''

'' and ''

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'', illustrating ''

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'', ''

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'', and '' Department S''. In 1974 they began working for US comics, including '' Monsters Unleashed'', ''

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'', and '' Space: 1999''. When their partnership ended, Alcazar continued to work for US comics, while Pino returned to UK comics, notably illustrating the strip '' Johnny Red'' in ''

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''. Pino went on to illustrate '' Invasion!'' for '' 2000 AD'' in 1977–78, and its prequel ''Disaster 1990'' (1979), as well as ''

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'' for the same comic. He was also the first artist on the series ''

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'' for '' Starlord'' in 1978. He later illustrated ''

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'' for the '' Daily Star'' newspaper (1991–96), although never for that strip's home comic. In the 1980s, Pino went on to work for ''

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'' and other comics, including '' The Victor'' and ''

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''. Since the mid-1990s he has worked continuously for ''Commando''.

References

* "Dispatches From the Front," interview by Stephen Jewell, ''2000 AD'' #2212, 16 December 2020
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External links

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