Manfred Sommer
{{Short description|Spanish comics artist (1933–2007)}}
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| birth_date = May 27, 1933
| birth_place = San Sebastian, Spain
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| nationality = Spanish
| area = artist, writer
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| notable works = Frank Cappa
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Manfred Sommer (May 27, 1933 – October 3, 2007{{cite web|last=Lambiek Comiclopedia |title= Manfred Sommer |url= http://lambiek.net/artists/s/sommer_manfred.htm }}) 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.{{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}} Sommer's main influences were Milton Caniff, Frank Robbins and Hugo Pratt.
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. 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.{{cite web | last =murciacomic.com | title = Ortiz | url = http://www.murciacomic.com/quienesquien/ortiz.htm |language=Spanish }}
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
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- [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}}
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Footnotes
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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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Category:People from San Sebastián