- Jose Bea
Infobox Comics creator
name = Jose Bea
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birthname = Jose Maria Bea Font
birthdate =1942
location =Spain
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nationality = Spanish
area = artist
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notable works = "Creepy ", "Eerie ", "Vampirella "
awards =Jose Bea (also known as Josep Bea or Jose Maria Bea Font) is a Spanish comic book
artist , born in1942 .Career
Jose Bea started his comic book career in the late 1950s when he worked for "Fleetway" in Britain. He also worked on "Miller's TV Heroes" during this period. In the early 1960s he worked on "Space Ace" for Atlas, as well as "Lone Star". In 1962 Bea moved to Paris where he focused on painting rather than comic book art. In 1971 he returned to comic books, working on "Dracula" and "Marilyn".
Due to his connections with the Spanish agency Selecciones Illustrada, Bea started working for
Warren Publishing in America in 1971. Bea worked on artwork for all three of Warren's horror titles, "Creepy ", "Eerie " and "Vampirella ", and also wrote a number of his stories. This would include the three part series "Tales of Peter Hypnos" as well as numerous stand alone stories. His work for "Dracula" was reprinted in a separate book published by Warren, as well as the story "Invasion" in "Eerie" 75. Bea would draw approximately 30 stories for Warren, as well as two covers (one of which was a reprinted, colored panel from one of his stories).After his departure from Warren in 1976, Bea worked on "Tales of the Galactic Inn". In 1979 he was convicted for offenses against morality for the content of one of his stories in this title, and was forbidden from doing anymore artwork. Once this ban was lifted, he worked on the magazine "Rambla" with Luis Garcia, as well as a number of humor magazines.
Selected Bibliography
*"Miller's TV Heroes"
*"Space Ace"
*"Lone Star"
*"Dracula" (1971)
*"Marilyn" (1971)
*"Creepy " issues 44-47, 49-53,56-58,61,80 (1972-1976)
*"Eerie " issues 39-41,72,73,75,76 (1972-1976)
*"Vampirella " issues 13,15,17,22,23,25,26,28,31,34,36 (1971-1974)
*"Tales of the Galactic Inn"
*"Rambla"References
*The Warren Companion, by David A. Roach and Jon B. CookeAndar entre las estrellas
External links
* [http://lambiek.net/artists/b/bea_jose.htm Jose Bea biography] on Lambiek Comiclopedia
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