Jaime Brocal

Jaime Brocal was born in Valencia, Spain. He began drawing when he was just a child. At the age of twenty, he worked for several countries making every kind of comic. Brocal made adapted classicals like Jules Verne's 'From Earth to Moon' and Leslie Chartiers' 'The Saint'. In 1960 he created his first heroic fantasy hero, a 50-issue collection 'Katan' and the series 'Ogan'. From then on, Brocal would hardly leave the heroic fantasy subject. He made horror comics for Warren Editor (USA), and his artwork was published in the magazines Creepy and Eerie, making a lot of one-episode stories, and the hit 'The Mummy Walks'.

Brocal created the character 'Kronan' around 1970. With Dargaud, Brocal created another barbarian hero, called 'Arcane', that were published in color along with his own stories. Then, with a scenario by writer Claude Moliterni, Brocal Remohi created another barbarian character called 'Ta-ar'. At the same time he made hard-cover books for Dargaud such as 'Gandhi', 'Lawrence of Arabia', 'The Jewish People' and 'The History of Islam', which were published in all the arabian countries.

Brocal continued the Ta-ar albums for Dargaud but finally left the company since he didn't agree with the new owner's ideas. Later on Brocal tended to make mostly illustrations, doing covers and illustrations for Planeta de Agostini. At the time, Remohi drew for Kodansha, Japan, the series 'Kami No Ude', another fantasy character placed in a mythic and legend-filled Japan following the Japanese Sintoic religion myths. This story occupied 360 pages. It was published later by Planeta, which currently also publishes the 'Ta-ar' albums.

Recently, Brocal released the illustrated book 'Heroic Fantasy', published by Planeta. He died on 29 June, 2002 at the age of 66 in Valencia, Spain.