Enrique Breccia (born 1945) is an Argentine
comic book
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artist and writer.
Biography
Enrique Breccia, the son of noted comic artist
Alberto Breccia
Alberto Breccia (April 15, 1919 – November 10, 1993) was a Uruguayan-born Argentine artist and cartoonist. His son Enrique Breccia and daughter Patricia Breccia are also comic book artists.
Comic book author Frank Miller considers Breccia a ...
, drew his first work in 1968, when together with his father illustrated ''
Vida del Che'' ("Life of Che"), a biographical ''
Historieta'' of the famous revolutionary
Che Guevara
Ernesto "Che" Guevara (14th May 1928 – 9 October 1967) was an Argentines, Argentine Communist revolution, Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, Guerrilla warfare, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and Military theory, military theorist. A majo ...
written by
Héctor Germán Oesterheld. In 1972, he started his collaboration with the British publishing house Fleetway, drawing the comic book ''Spy 13'' under a
pseudonym
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, and later a series of war stories for the Italian magazine Linus.
His collaboration with writer
Carlos Trillo
Carlos Trillo (May 1, 1943 – May 8, 2011) was an Argentine comic book writer, best known worldwide as the co-creator and writer of the '' Cybersix'' comics. With a long and prolific career in the '' Historieta'' medium, he is considered as one ...
began in 1976 with the comic ''El Buen Dios'' ("The Good God"), immediately followed by ''Alvar Mayor'', his most famous character with whom he entered the world comic book scene. He had several other successful collaborations with Trillo, the mini series ''El peregrino de la Estrellas'', the surreal series ''Los Viajes del Marco Mono'' and the painted ''El Reino del Azul''. In 1983, he drew ''Ibáñez'' from the script of
Robin Wood, and the next year the highly successful ''El Sueñero'' and ''El Cazador del Tiempo'' from his own scripts. He also drew several comic book adaptions of famous novels such as ''
Till Eulenspiegel
Till Eulenspiegel (; ) is the protagonist of a European narrative tradition. A German chapbook published around 1510 is the oldest known extant publication about the folk hero (a first edition of is preserved fragmentarily), but a background i ...
'', ''
Treasure Island
''Treasure Island'' (originally titled ''The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys''Hammond, J. R. 1984. "Treasure Island." In ''A Robert Louis Stevenson Companion'', Palgrave Macmillan Literary Companions. London: Palgrave Macmillan. .) is an adventure a ...
'' and ''
Moby Dick
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''. In 1987, he published the graphic novel ''Lope de Aguirre'' and in 1995 ''De Mar a Mar''.
In 2000, Breccia began his collaboration with American comic book publishers, working on an issue of ''
X-Force
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'' for Marvel, and ''Legion Worlds'' and ''Batman: Gotham Knights'' for DC Comics. In 2002, he drew the graphic novel Lovecraft, about the life of writer
H.P. Lovecraft written by Hans Rodionoff, for DC comics' Vertigo imprint. In 2005, he became the head artist for the Vertigo series ''
Swamp Thing
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'', drawing 22 issues till 2007. In 2012, he won a
Konex Award
Konex Foundation Awards, or simply Konex Awards, are cultural awards from the Konex Foundation honouring Argentine cultural personalities.
History and purpose
Konex Awards are granted by the Konex Foundation, created in 1980 in Argentina. The p ...
from Argentina.
Breccia currently lives in
Spoleto
Spoleto (, also , , ; ) is an ancient city in the Italian province of Perugia in east-central Umbria on a foothill of the Apennines. It is south of Trevi, north of Terni, southeast of Perugia; southeast of Florence; and north of Rome.
H ...
, Italy, and is working on the second volume of the comic book saga ''Sentinelles'' for the French market, written by Xavier Dorison.
External links
Enrique Breccia biographyon Lambiek Comiclopedia
Official website - Sito web ufficiale
1945 births
Argentine comics writers
Argentine comics artists
Artists from Buenos Aires
Argentine people of Italian descent
Living people
Writers from Buenos Aires
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