Cartoonist of Batman, Thor, The X-Men, The Fantastic Four or The Avengers, dies two months after announcing he suffered from ALS. The Cádiz cartoonist was a comic book titan who triumphed for three in the Marvel and DC factories
Superman, Batman, Thor or Captain America will have shed tears over the death of Carlos Pacheco, a comic book genius who brought these and other superheroes to life in their epic adventures and who was a huge star in the competitive comic book market on Marvel and DC stamps in the past three decades. There was shock and pain in the comic book world to sack the cartoonist of Cadiz, a legend of his trade, the first Spanish cartoonist signed by Marvel, a beacon for a generation and who also drew the X-Men, The Avengers, The Fantastic Four or Green Lantern.
Pacheco died at the Hospital de La Línea de la Concepción, in Cádiz, five days before his 61st birthday and two months after announcing that he was suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and that he would have an “unexpected twist on the script”. to get. as he said when he confirmed in September that he was suffering from a neurodegenerative disease.
“It is what it is and it is what you have to face, but that doesn’t stop me from continuing to feel happy for all I’ve lived, for the experiences I’ve had, the achievements achieved and the people I’ve had the fortune to cross,” he said on social networks when announcing his condition. He celebrated “a life beyond the wildest dreams of that child I ever was.” So wrote, thankfully, this pioneer in the American comics industry, one of the most famous Spanish cartoonists in the world.
Born in San Roque (Cádiz) in 1961, he started his professional career while studying biology in Seville. His work at Planeta de Agostini in the 1980s allowed him to adapt the Spanish editions of Marvel Comics with covers, posters and illustrations for sagas and characters such as Captain America, Nick Fury, the X-Men, The Avengers or The Fantastic Four.
His tremendous talent led to him being hired by Marvel’s British division in 1993. Dark Guard was the first complete series he signed and the one that put him in the competitive international market. A year later, DC Comics invited him to collaborate on eight issues of The Flash. Marvel did not let the young talent escape and signed him exclusively.
DC Comics would later do the same to put his talent at the service of legendary superheroes and villains such as Superman, Batman, Captain America, Green Lantern or Ultron. He also created the personal and fantastic series Arrowsmith, together with American writer Kurt Busiek, and wrote and drew Iberia Inc., a six-album miniseries published in 1996 by Dolmen Editorial.
He retired in April after more than 30 years of career. He was given “a sabbatical” that ALS abruptly interrupted when he became paralyzed in his right leg. Publishers, authors, booksellers and readers were then mobilized by “a pioneer, a titan of comics and one of the people who knows most about comics in this country.” The Spanish Association of Comic Book Authors (AACE) recognized his brilliant career last week.
Recognized as the revelation author of the American magazine Wizard, he has been in the publication’s “top ten” authors since 1997. In 2001, it topped the list. He worked for the giants of Anglo-Saxon comics from his refuge in Campo de Gibraltar, as he himself told in the book ‘Carlos Pacheco’s graphic adventure’, (Planeta), in which he describes his personal and professional career.
Source: La Verdad
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