Luis García Mozos

Infobox Comics creator
name = Luis García


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birthname = Luis García Mozos
birthdate = 1946
location = Puertollano, Spain
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nationality = Spanish
area = artist
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notable works = "Creepy", "Eerie", "Vampirella"
awards = Warren Award, 'Best Art in a Story', 1972

Luis García Mozos (born 1946) is a Spanish comic book artist.

Career

More widely known in English as just Luis García, he was born in Puertollano, Spain in 1946. García began his career drawing European romance comics for Fleetway. In the 1960s he joined the well known Spanish agency Selecciones Illustradas. In 1971 García joined Warren Publishing, where he drew nine stories for "Creepy", "Eerie" and "Vampirella". García's first story published for Warren, "The Men Who Called Him Monster" ("Creepy" #43, January 1972) is notable as having the first interracial kiss in mainstream comics. Ironically this kiss, which occurred between a black detective and a white teenager he was interviewing happened only because García misunderstood the line "This is the clincher" in writer Don McGregor's script.cite book | year=2001 | title=The Warren Companion by David A. Roach and Jon B. Cooke| page=114| publisher=TwoMorrowsPublishing| language=English ] Another story of García's, "Welcome to the Witch's Coven" ("Vampirella" #15, January 1972) won the Warren award for best art in a story for 1972.

García left Warren in 1973 to join the French Magazine "Pilote", where he teamed up with writer Victor Mora. Five of these stories would be reprinted in "Vampirella" in 1975 ("Around the Corner... Just Beyond Eternity!", "The Wolves at War's End", "Love Strip", "Janis" and "The Secret Legacy of Gaslight Lil!"). "The Wolves at War's End" was rated as the second best story to ever appear in a Warren magazine by David A. Roach, co-author of "The Warren Companion". "Love Strip" also appeared on his list in tenth place.cite book | year=2001 | title=The Warren Companion by David A. Roach and Jon B. Cooke| page=253-4| publisher=TwoMorrowsPublishing| language=English ]

García's art would later appear in "La Isla del Tesoro" (1977), "La Gran Aventura" (1978), "Etnocidio" (1979) and "Chicharras" (1985). He was one of the founders of the magazines "Trocha" and "Rambla". After "Rambla" went out of business in 1985, García ended his career as a comic book artist to focus on painting.Cite web|last=Lambiek Comiclopedia|title= Luis García |url= http://lambiek.net/artists/g/garcia_luis.htm]

Selected Bibliography

*"Davy Crocket" (1963)
*"5 Por Infinito" (1968)
*"Aventuras en la Selva" (1969)
*"Creepy" issues 43,46,47 (1972)
*"Eerie" issues 41,43 (1972)
*"Vampirella" issues 15,17,18,20,21,42-45,47 (1972,1975)
*"Pilote" (1973-1980)
*"La Isla del Tesoro" (1977)
*"La Gran Aventura" (1978)
*"Etnocidio" (1979)
*"Totem" (1981)
*"Heavy Metal" (1982)
*"Chicharras" (1985)

ources

* "The Warren Companion", by David A. Roach and Jon B. Cooke
* [http://bdoubliees.com/journalpilote/auteurs2/garcia.htm Luis García publications in "Pilote"] BDoubliées fr_icon;Footnotes

External links

* [http://lambiek.net/artists/g/garcia_luis.htm Luis García biography] on Lambiek Comiclopedia