Edmundo Fernández Ripoll, better known as Edmond (born 1938), is a Catalan comic book artist and illustrator, born in 1938 march in Barcelona.Edmond en Comic Story-7, encarte del séptimo número de Bruguelandia, Editorial Bruguera, Barcelona, 11/01/1982, p. 28 a 29. His most famous creation was Jan Europa.Esteba, Miquel (12/2008). Jan Europa. Las aventuras de una catalán por la nueva Europa en "Dolmen Europa" #1, Dolmen Editorial, pp. 93 a 94.
Career The young Edmond works in a hardware store, selling T-shirt's by mail and as an assistant in an advertising agency till 1959 when is hired by Editorial Bruguera to adapt television characters as Rintintín, Bonanza, Daniel Boone or Bronco. In the seventies also publishes romance stories in girls magazines like Celia, As de Corazones, Sissi, Sissi-gráfico o Sissi-juvenil and adaptations of books like Tom Sawyer and La capitana del Yucatán for Joyas Literarias Juveniles collection.Guiu, Armando Matías en Comic Story-7, encarte del séptimo número de Bruguelandia, Editorial Bruguera, Barcelona, 11/01/1982, p. 30.
Lately he works internationally for the British market (Adarés Anglians, How The West Was Won, The Handcuff Hotspurs, The Quest, Tyler the Tamer), French bande dessiné (Brigade Temporelle, Mike Nelson), holandés (Elsje de Windt, Mimi, Meta de Bokesprong, Oberon),Cuadrado (2000), p. 407. Swedish market and even in Zaire. In Spain, creates with the script of Víctor Mora (Súper Mortadelo, 1973) and with Andreu Martín Fantasía S. A. (Tío Vivo, 1975) and Los Titanes (Super Sacarino and Super Ases).
In 1976 creates Eva Star for Can Can and in April 1979, Jan Europa, his more popular series, to Mortadelo.
Similar to Jan Europa is Doctor Impossible in 1984. His last creation was Fede y sus colegas, dramón urbano por entregas, scripted by Jaume Ribera for the TBO magazine of Ediciones B.
Style Armando Matías Guiu wrote about this author
Work YearTitleWriterPublication1967BonanzaVicente PalomaresTele Color (Editorial Bruguera)1969The Handcuff HotspursSmash! (IPC Magazines)1971 Tyler the Tamer Smash! (IPC)1972Brigade Temporelle (Time Brigade)Claude J. LegrandFutura1973SupernovaVíctor Mora Súper Mortadelo (Editorial Bruguera) 197-Los TitanesAndreu MartínSuper Sacarino (Editorial Bruguera) 1978Fantasía S.A.Andreu MartínTío Vivo (Editorial Bruguera) 1979Jan EuropaMortadelo y Super Mortadelo (Editorial Bruguera) 1983MimíJana (Sarpe) 1983BarracudaJana (Sarpe)Guiral (11/2007), p. 150.1984Doctor ImpossibleMortadelo1986ErikaChicas (Editorial Bruguera) 1986MargaArmando Matías GuiuChicas (Editorial Bruguera) 1988Cinemateca TBOVíctor Mora y Jaume RiberaTBO (Ediciones B) 1988["Fede and his Colleagues," an urban drama in installments]Jaume Ribera TBO de Ediciones B.198-SupertrailersSuper Mortadelo (Ediciones B) 198-SindyEdmond RipollTBO (Editorial Bruguera) 198- La TribuEdmond RipollTBO (Ediciones B) 1989 La vida crítica y la crítica de la vidaJaume Ribera, Edmond RipollTBO (Ediciones B)
References
Sources Cuadrado, Jesús (2000). Atlas español de la cultura popular: De la historieta y su uso 1873-2000, Madrid: Fundación Germán Sánchez Ruipérez. 2 v. .
External links Edmond (Edmundo Fernández Ripoll) in the Comiclopedia by Lambiek Entry in the Bedetheque