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{{Short description|Spanish comics artist and cartoonist (1927–2010)}}
'''Víctor de la Fuente''' (1927 - 2 July 2010) was a Spanish comic book artist and writer. He worked mostly in the [[western comics|western]] and [[fantasy comics|heroic fantasy]] genres.
==Biography==
De la Fuente was born in [[Ríocaliente]], and started his comics career in [[Adolfo López Rubio]]'s studio in 1945. In this period he worked for Spanish magazines such as ''Chicos'', ''Flechas y Pelayos'' and ''Zas''. In his mid-40s he moved to Latin America, first to [[Cuba]], then to [[Argentina]] and [[Chile]], where he signed a contract with [[Editorial Zig Zag]]. In 1957 he became director of the ''El Peneca'' magazine and founded his own advertisement agency.
In 1961 he returned to Spain, and subsequently worked for local publishers as well as British ones including [[Fleetway]] and [[DC Thomson]]. In 1968 he started a collaboration with the French magazine ''[[Pilote]]'', published by [[Dargaud]], with the series ''Les diamants sanglants'' ("The bloody diamonds"). The following year he began the western comic ''[[Sunday (comic book)|Sunday]]'', written by [[Víctor Mora (comics)|Víctor Mora]] and published by Spanish [[Selecciones Ilustradas]].
In 1969–1971, de la Fuente wrote and drawn the heroic fantasy series ''[[Haxtur]]'' for the Spanish magazine ''[[Trinca (comic)|Trinca]]''; in 1971 he also drew a single story for American publisher [[Warren Publishing|Warren]], "I Am Dead, Egypt. Dead", written by [[Doug Moench]], which appeared in ''[[Eerie (magazine)|Eerie]]'' #35. The story won the 1972 Warren Award for best story. In 1972 he created, again for ''Trinca'', the post-apocalypse series ''[[Mathai-Dor]]'', which remained unfinished due to rights problems. In the same year he moved to France, and executed the erotic-western series ''Mortimer'' for Italian publisher E.P. In 1973 Haxtur won two awards at the [[Trieste]] and [[Genoa]] comics festivals in Italy.
In 1974 he created another western series, ''Amargo'', for [[Hachette (publisher)|Hachette]]. In 1976 he took part to the comics adaptation of the [[Holy Bible]] and the history of France for [[Larrousse]]. In 1977 he collaborated with the Belgian magazine ''[[Tintin (magazine)|Tintin]]'' and, in 1978, he created another heroic fantasy character, [[Haggarth]], for the Belgian magazine ''[[À Suivre]]''. In 1979, he began the long western series ''Los gringos'', written initially by [[Jean-Michel Charlier]] and, from 1992 onwards, by [[Guy Vidal]]. In 1980 de la Fuente won the [[Yellow Kid Award]] in [[Lucca]].{{cn|date=July 2024}}
His last works were a series of  [[Tex Willer]] stories for Italian publisher [[Sergio Bonelli Editore]] and the French album ''Aliot'', written by [[Alejandro Jodorowsky]]. De la Fuente died in 2010 and was buried at [[Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis]].
==External links==
*[http://www.lne.es/sociedad-cultura/2010/07/03/muere-victor-fuente-grandes-comic-tiempos/937884.html Obituary] {{in lang|es}}
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