Juan Zanotto (Giovanni Zanotto, September 26, 1935 – April 13, 2005) was an

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-born

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comic book artist who worked both in

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and Argentina.

Biography

Born in

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, in the

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(

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), Zanotto moved with his family at age thirteen to Argentina. There he studied at the North American School of Art (later the Pan-American School of Art). In 1953 he started to work at ''Editorial Codex'' where he worked on stories by other authors, and in subsequent years did adventure comics, westerns and drew early stories for ''Tatin'' and ''

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''. In 1955, with writings by Alfredo Grassi, he created ''Ric de la Frontera'', and that same year began working on ''El Mundo del hombre rojo'' (Indian legends of North America). In 1958 he began an association with the

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. In 1965 he took the position of artistic director at Editorial Codex and did various covers and illustrations. In 1974 he became artistic director of Ediciones Record. With Ray Collins (Eugenio Zappietro) he created the fanta-prehistoric '' Henga'' (''Yor'' in Italian) using his and Diego Navarro's scripts (the 1983 film ''

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'' was based on this graphic novel), the western ''Wakantanka'' with scripts by Héctor Germán Oesterheld, and the science fiction '' Bárbara'' (1979–1983) and ''Nueva York año cero'' (in 1984 for ''la EPC'' of Rome), both written by

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, ''Cronicas del Tiempo Medio'' ("Chronicles of the Middle Time") written by

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and ''Penitenciario'' with scripts by Barreiro. The

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publisher

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published ''Nueva York año cero'' and ''Crónicas del Tiempo Medio'' in the late 1980s. In 1991 he drew '' War Man'', a graphic novel for

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, written by

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and published in 2 parts in Heavy Hitters'

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. ''Falka'', the continuation of ''Horizontes Perdidos'' of 1993, was Zanotto's first work also as a writer, and lasted until 2003. Juan Zanotto died in 2005 in

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, Argentina.

Partial bibliography

* '' Henga, el cazador'' (1974, written by Ray Collins) * ''Wakantanka'' (1976, written by Héctor Germán Oesterheld) * ''Barbara'' (1979, written by

) * ''Nueva York año cero'' (1984, written by

) * ''Cronicas del Tiempo Medio'' (written by

) * ''Penitenciario'' (1989, written by

) * ''Horizontes Perdidos'' (''Falka'', 1993) * ''Los Ladrones del Tiempo'', (1998)

Footnotes

References

Juan Zanotto dossier
FFF

External links

on Lambiek Comiclopedia

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