Luis Bermejo

Luis Bermejo Royo was born in Madrid in 1931. He began his career as Manuel Gago's assistant and then he got his own series 'El Rey del Mar', which he did following this artist's style. He also worked as artist on 'Aventuras del FBI' (Rollán, 1951), the 'Apache' series (Maga, 1956) and 'Marco Polo' (Maga, 1962).

At the end of the 1950s the Spanish market for comics came to a crisis so Luis Bermejo started working for the international agencies Bardon, Selecciones Ilustradas and Luis Ferraz. He did a large number of works for Britain, mainly war stories and contributions to the Thriller Picture Library. Then he took over the character 'Heros the Spartan' from his creator Frank Bellamy. Although Bermejo's production for the Spanish market rated low during this period, it didn't cease. In addition he entered the Italian market by means of the Italian agency d'Ami.

Luis Bermejo was present in US magazines from Warren publishers like Eerie and Vampirella with several horror comics in the 1970s. He also worked for DC comics. In 1980 Bermejo wrote and illustrated an adaptation of Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings'.

Some of the adult magazines that spawned in Spain from late 1970s published works drawn by Bermejo: the westerns 'Mestizo' and 'Jon Khe', the series 'Orka' (1982), 'Paco Rusque' (1983) and some short stories that appeared in Cimoc, Metropol and Zona 84. In 1987 Bermejo illustrated 'El Capitán Trueno'. He also did adaptations from books by Isaac Asimov and Raymond Chandler. In addition to his comics, Luis Bermejo has got an important career as an illustrator.