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Born | José Antonio Fernández Fernández 16 May 1949 Mansilla de las Mulas, León |
Died | 14 September, 2020 (aged 71) |
Nationality | Spanish |
Area(s) | comics artist and writer |
Notable works | Puti-Club |
José Antonio Fernández Fernández (May 16, 1949 – September 14, 2020[1]), better known as Fer, was a Spanish comic artist.
He was the main promoter of the Gat Perich International Humor Prize, an award that he received in 2005.[2]
Biography
[edit]He was born in Mansilla de las Mulas, León. His family moved to Mollet del Vallès from León when he was four years old. He graduated in History and became a teacher.
He started drawing in the magazines Mata Ratos, En Patufet and Oriflama as well as the newspaper La Prensa.
He directed the comics magazine El Papus.[3] In 1982 he created for El Jueves the series Puti-Club, set in a brothel and later the series Historias fermosas about a group of clumsy medieval soldiers.
References
[edit]- ^ Mor el ninotaire Fer, un dels fundadors de El Jueves (in Catalan)
- ^ El dibujante Fer recoge el premio que él mismo creó in elperiodicoextremadura.com (in Spanish)
- ^ José Antonio Fernández ‘Fer’: "Quiero recuperar la seriedad que tuvo El Jueves en otros tiempos" in lanuevacronica.com (in Spanish)