Manfred Sommer

{{Short description|Spanish comics artist (1933–2007)}} {{Infobox comics creator

| image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = May 27, 1933 | birth_place = San Sebastian, Spain | death_date = {{death date and age|2007|10|3|1933|5|27}} | death_place = | nationality = Spanish | area = artist, writer | alias = | notable works = ''Frank Cappa'' | awards = }} '''Manfred Sommer''' (May 27, 1933 – October 3, 2007<ref name=lamb-ms>{{cite web|last=Lambiek Comiclopedia |title= Manfred Sommer |url= http://lambiek.net/artists/s/sommer_manfred.htm }}</ref>) was a Spanish comics artist, best known for the reporter comics series ''Frank Cappa''.

==Career==

Sommer was born at San Sebastián.

He began his career as an informal pupil of Jesus Blasco, and received creative support from the Blasco family during his young years.<ref name="space">{{cite web| last =SpaceRockHeaters| title =Si yo fuera Frank Cappa| url =http://www.spacerockheaters.com/lyc/sommer.htm| language =Spanish| url-status =dead| archiveurl =https://web.archive.org/web/20070527083515/http://www.spacerockheaters.com/lyc/sommer.htm| archivedate =2007-05-27}}</ref> Sommer's main influences were Milton Caniff, Frank Robbins and Hugo Pratt.<ref name=lamb-ms/>

Sommer created the series ''El Lobo Solitario'', ''Polux'', and ''El Tigre'', before launching his first great success in 1981, ''Frank Cappa'', which was published in the comics magazine ''Cimoc''.<ref name=lamb-ms/> Joining the Spanish creators such as Jordi Bernet, Antonio Segura, Leopold Sánchez and José Ortiz, Sommer was part of the ambitious though short-lived Metropol initiative which published three magazines in the early 1980s, ''Metropol'', ''Mocambo'' and ''KO cómics''.<ref name=murcia-or>{{cite web | last =murciacomic.com | title = Ortiz | url = http://www.murciacomic.com/quienesquien/ortiz.htm |language=Spanish }}</ref>

== Bibliography of French titles == * ''Frank Cappa'' **1. ''Frank Cappa au Brésil'' (1984, Les Humanoïdes Associés, {{ISBN|2-7316-0301-1}}) **2. ''Somoza et Gomorrhe'' (1986, Kesselring) **3. ''Le dernier africain'' (1988, Kesselring) **4. ''Viet-Song!'' (1989, Dargaud, {{ISBN|2-205-03861-3}})

==References== {{refbegin}} * [http://bdoubliees.com/metalhurlant/auteurs5/sommer.htm Manfred Sommer publications in ''Métal Hurlant''] and [http://bdoubliees.com/journalpilote/auteurs5/sommer.htm ''Pilote''] BDoubliées {{in lang|fr}} * [http://www.bedetheque.com/auteur-4601-BD-Sommer-Manfred.html Manfred Sommer albums] Bedetheque {{in lang|fr}} {{refend}} '''Footnotes''' {{reflist}}

==External links== *[http://lambiek.net/artists/s/sommer_manfred.htm Manfred Sommer biography] on Lambiek Comiclopedia *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070929160407/http://www.lamassanacomic.ad/ArticlesDiariAndorra/da05a34.PDF "Manfred Sommer portarà una antologia de Cappa a la Massana"] ''Diari d'Andorra'' article {{in lang|ca}}

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