Robin Wood (24 January 1944 – 17 October 2021) was a

Paraguay Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay, is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the Argentina–Paraguay border, south and southwest, Brazil to the Brazil–Paraguay border, east and northeast, and Boli ...

comic book writer A script is a document describing the narrative and dialogue of a comic book in detail. It is the comic book equivalent of a television program teleplay or a film screenplay. In comics, a script may be preceded by a plot outline, and is almost al ...

and author. He is mostly known for his classical work in

Argentine comics Argentine comics (Spanish: ''historietas'' or ''cómics'') are one of the most important comic traditions internationally, and the most important within Latin America, living its "Golden Age" between the 1940s and the 1960s, extending into the 198 ...

and his later work in

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Biography

Born to a family of Australian-Paraguayan origins in 1944, Wood spent his childhood between Paraguay and Argentina with his mother, before leaving to do various jobs, such as dishwasher, truck driver, salesman, wood chopper, journalist and factory worker in those two countries as well as in Brazil. Anne Whitehead's 1997 book on

New Australia New Australia was a utopian socialist settlement in Paraguay created by the New Australian Movement. The colony was officially founded on 28 September 1893 as Colonia Nueva Australia and comprised 238 people. History The New Australi ...

, ''Paradise Mislaid'', provides a chapter on Robin Wood's childhood with his extended Australian-Paraguayan family. Wood settled in

Buenos Aires Buenos Aires, controlled by the government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires is classified as an Alpha− glob ...

while working as a correspondent for Argentine newspaper ''El Territorio'', and worked a series of unqualified jobs before he started writing scripts for popular comic book publishing company

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. His first published work was ''Aquí la retirada'', illustrated by his friend

Lucho Olivera Ricardo Luis Olivera, better known as Lucho Olivera (1942–2005), was an Argentine comic book artist and writer. Olivera made himself a recognised name in his country, working many years in important Argentine comics, like the classic ''Nip ...

, in the magazine ''D'artagnan'', and would soon become one of the most important comic writers not only of Argentine comics, but that of

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. In the 1980s Wood moved to Europe, where he continued with his writing success, especially in Italy, where he won the ''

Yellow Kid award The Yellow Kid Awards (Italian: ''Premio Yellow Kid'') are comic book awards presented in Italy from 1970 to 1992 at Salone Internazionale dei Comics in Lucca, then from 1994 to 2005 at the Salone Internazionale dei Comics in Rome. The Yellow Kid ...

''. Wood settled in Denmark with his Danish wife Anne-Mette and their children. Wood died on 17 October 2021 at the age of 77 in

Asunción Asunción (, ) is the capital and the largest city of Paraguay. The city stands on the eastern bank of the Paraguay River, almost at the confluence of this river with the Pilcomayo River. The Paraguay River and the Bay of Asunción in the north ...

, Paraguay.

Works

Among Wood's most important works are ''

Nippur de Lagash ''Nippur de Lagash'' () is an Argentine historical comic series, published between 1967 and 1998. It is set in the 23rd century BC (according to the short chronology), about a fictional homonym warrior of Sumer, created by Paraguayan comic scriptwr ...

'' (1967, art by Olivera), ''Dennis Martin'' (1967), '' Dago'' (1980, Alberto Salinas), ''Savarese'' (1978, Mandrafina), ''Mark'', ''Big Norman'', ''Martin Hel'', ''Merlin'', ''Wolf'', ''Gilgamesh el inmortal'' (Olivera), ''Morgan'', ''Dax'', ''Los Amigos'', ''El Cosaco'', ''Aquí la Legión'', ''Mojado'' and ''Helena'', and the humour comics of Pepe Sánchez and ''Mi novia y yo'', both illustrated by Carlos Vogt.

References

External links

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''Blancas Murallas'' by Ariel Avilez and Germán Lanzillotta Paraguayan people of Australian descent Paraguayan comics writers Argentine comics writers 1944 births 2021 deaths Immigrants to Denmark Expatriates in Argentina {{comics-writer-stub