Ramón Torrents (born 6 December 1937) is a Spanish

comic book A comic book, comic-magazine, or simply comic is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panel (comics), panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by descriptive prose and wri ...

artist.

Career

Ramón Torrents was born in

Barcelona Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c ...

Catalonia Catalonia is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationalities and regions of Spain, nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 2006, Statute of Autonomy. Most of its territory (except the Val d'Aran) is situate ...

, northern Spain. He began his career drawing for the comic ''Space Ace''. He later worked on romance comics for British publisher

Fleetway Fleetway Publications was a magazine publishing company based in London. History It was founded in 1959 when the Mirror Group acquired the Amalgamated Press, then based at Fleetway House, Farringdon Street, London. It was one of the companies t ...

, including ''Marilyn'' and ''True Life Library''. In the late 1960s, Torrents worked with Esteban Maroto in the Spanish science fiction series ''Cinco x Infinito''. Through his connections with agency Selecciones Ilustradas, Torrents began working for American company

Warren Publishing Warren Publishing was an American magazine company founded by James Warren (publisher), James Warren, who published his first magazines in 1957 and continued in the business for decades. Magazines published by Warren include ''After Hours (magazin ...

in 1972. For them, he drew 42 stories until 1979. The majority of his work appeared in ''

Vampirella Vampirella () is a vampire superheroine created by Forrest J Ackerman and comic book artist Trina Robbins in Warren Publishing's black-and-white horror comics magazine ''Vampirella'' #1 (Sept. 1969), a sister publication of '' Creepy'' and ''E ...

'', with 8 stories done for ''

Creepy Creepiness is the state of being creepy, or causing an unpleasant feeling of fear or unease to someone and/or something. Certain traits or hobbies may make people seem creepy to others; interest in horror or the macabre might come across as 'c ...

'' and one story done for ''

Eerie Eerie may refer to: * Feeling of creepiness * Eerie (magazine), ''Eerie'' (magazine), an American horror comic first published in 1966 * Eerie (Avon), ''Eerie'' (Avon), a 1947 horror comic * Eerie (film), ''Eerie'' (film), a 2018 Filipino horror fi ...

''. Torrents drew primarily stand-alone stories except for a three part series titled ''Fleur'' and a single story where he drew Vampirella herself. Torrents also worked for Warren competitor Skywald for a period of time in the early 1970s. After leaving Warren, Torrents retired from the comic book industry.

Bibliography

Interior art includes: * ''

'' #51-53, 57, 59, 65, 92 * ''

'' #50, 81, 133, * ''

'' #23-26, 28–29, 35–36, 40, 44, 47–48, 49, 52, 57–58, 61–63, 67–68, 70, 76

References

Sources

External links

Ramon Torrents biography
on Lambiek Comiclopedia 1938 births Living people Artists from Barcelona Spanish comics artists 20th-century Spanish artists Spanish science fiction artists Romance comics artists Spanish horror artists {{Spain-artist-stub