Joan March | |
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Born | Granollers, Barcelona | 11 October 1952
Nationality | Spanish |
Area(s) | comics artist and writer |
Notable works | Tranqui y Tronco |
Joan March i Zuriguel (Granollers, Barcelona, 11 October 1952) is a Spanish cartoonist, member of the ill-fated third generation the Bruguera School, alongside other authors such as Casanyes, Esegé, the Fresno brothers, Rovira and Rafael Vaquer. His most famous series are El Mini Rey and Tranqui y Tronco. [1]
In 1970 he was hired by Bruguera publisher where he worked illustrating jokes and as an inker for Escobar. [2] A year later he created his first characters for magazines Din Dan (Ruperto, Calixto y Damián) and Pulgarcito (Ataúlfo y Gedeón, La Familia Potosí) and at the same time he began to collaborate with magazines of other publishers such as Gaceta Junior, (where he created Don Meñique ), and in Strong by Argos publisher.
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