Edmond Ripoll

{{Short description|Spanish comics artist}} {{BLP sources|date=January 2016}} thumb|Edmond Fernández Ripoll in 2010 '''Edmundo Fernández Ripoll''', better known as '''Edmond''' (born 1938), is a Catalan comic book artist and illustrator, born in 1938 march in Barcelona.<ref name="bruguelandia7">Edmond en ''Comic Story-7'', encarte del séptimo número de ''Bruguelandia'', Editorial Bruguera, Barcelona, 11/01/1982, p. 28 a 29.</ref> His most famous creation was ''Jan Europa''.<ref name="dolmeneu1">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.</ref>

== 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''.<ref name="bruguelandia7"/> 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.<ref name="bruguelandia7b">Guiu, Armando Matías en ''Comic Story-7'', encarte del séptimo número de ''Bruguelandia'', Editorial Bruguera, Barcelona, 11/01/1982, p. 30.</ref>

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''),<ref name="bruguelandia7b"/> holandés (''Elsje de Windt'', ''Mimi'', ''Meta de Bokesprong'', ''Oberon''),<ref name="bruguelandia7"/><ref name="atlas">Cuadrado (2000), p. 407.</ref> Swedish market and even in Zaire.<ref name="bruguelandia7b"/> In Spain, creates with the script of Víctor Mora {{ill|Supernova (Spanish comic)|lt=''Supernova''|es|Supernova (historieta)}} (''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''<ref name="bruguelandia7b"/> and in April 1979, ''Jan Europa'', his more popular series, to ''Mortadelo''.<ref name="bruguelandia7"/>

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.<ref name="dolmeneu1"/>

== Style == Armando Matías Guiu wrote about this author {{blockquote|Edmond is a methodical, rhythmic, extremely correct cartoonist. Very cerebral. His style, photographic. When he draws a building, a situation, it is exactly as it exists in reality or as if there would be.<ref name="bruguelandia7"/>}}

== Work == {| sortable wikitable'' |- !Year !Title !Writer !Publication |- |1967 |''Bonanza'' |Vicente Palomares |''Tele Color'' (Editorial Bruguera) |- |1969 |''The Handcuff Hotspurs'' | |''Smash!'' (IPC Magazines) |- |1971 | ''Tyler the Tamer'' | |''Smash!'' (IPC) |- |1972 |''Brigade Temporelle (Time Brigade)'' |Claude J. Legrand |''Futura'' |- |1973 |''Supernova'' |Víctor Mora |''Súper Mortadelo'' (Editorial Bruguera) |- |197- |''Los Titanes'' |Andreu Martín |''Super Sacarino'' (Editorial Bruguera) |- |1978 |''Fantasía S.A.'' |Andreu Martín |''Tío Vivo'' (Editorial Bruguera) |- |1979 |''Jan Europa'' | |''Mortadelo'' y ''Super Mortadelo'' (Editorial Bruguera) |- |1983 |''Mimí'' | |''Jana'' (Sarpe) |- |1983 |''Barracuda'' | |''Jana'' (Sarpe)<ref name="guiral">Guiral (11/2007), p. 150.</ref> |- |1984 |''Doctor Impossible'' | |''Mortadelo'' |- |1986 |''Erika'' | |''Chicas'' (Editorial Bruguera) |- |1986 |''Marga'' |Armando Matías Guiu |''Chicas'' (Editorial Bruguera) |- |1988 |''Cinemateca TBO'' |Víctor Mora y Jaume Ribera |''TBO'' (Ediciones B) |- |1988 |["Fede and his Colleagues," an urban drama in installments] |Jaume Ribera |TBO de Ediciones B.<ref name="dolmeneu1" /> |- |198- |''Supertrailers'' | |''Super Mortadelo'' (Ediciones B) |- |198- |''Sindy'' |Edmond Ripoll |''TBO'' (Editorial Bruguera) |- |198- |''La Tribu'' |Edmond Ripoll |''TBO'' (Ediciones B) |- |1989 |''La vida crítica y la crítica de la vida'' |Jaume Ribera, Edmond Ripoll |''TBO'' (Ediciones B) |}

== References == {{Reflist}}

== 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. {{ISBN|84-89384-23-1}}. * {{cite book | author-link = Antoni Guiral | last=Guiral |first=Antoni | title = Los tebeos de nuestra infancia: La Escuela Bruguera (1964-1986). Colección Magnum nº 7 | date = November 2007 | location=Barcelona | publisher= Ediciones El Jueves, S.A. | isbn=978-84-9741-589-7 }}

==External links== * [https://lambiek.net/artists/e/edmond.htm Edmond (Edmundo Fernández Ripoll)] in the Comiclopedia by Lambiek * [https://www.bedetheque.com/auteur-30123-BD-Ripoll-Edmond.html Entry in the Bedetheque]

Category:1938 births Category:Living people Category:Spanish comics artists Category:Romance comics artists Category:20th-century Catalan people Category:21st-century Catalan people