Jordi Bernet was born on June 14, 1944 in Barcelona,
Cataluna, Spain. He is the son of a Spanish comic book artist, Miguel Bernet. He
made his debut in comics at fifteen, continuing his father's humorous series
Doña Urraca (Mrs. Magpie) after his death in 1960, under the pseudonym
"Jordi". While he was able to support his family, it did not satisfy
his artistic ambitions that were inspired by artists such as Hal Foster, Alex
Raymond and Milton Caniff. From 1962, Bernet developed a more realistic style,
and took on smaller assignments from Italian and British publishers, until he
started illustrating for the Belgian comics magazine Spirou in 1965. He drew the series Dan Lacombe with his uncle Miguel Cussó as writer, and created a
similar series Paul Foran with writer
José Larraz, but due to disagreements over editing decisions by Dupuis, Bernet
ended the relationship with Spirou.
Turning to the German market, in the 1970s he collaborated with Cussó to create
Wat 69, a sexy and humoristic heroine
for the magazine Pip, and Andrax, a science fiction series for
Primo, which both became successful in Germany.
After the fall of Franco, Bernet returned to Catalonia
and Spain and worked for several Spanish comics magazines such as Creepy, Metropol and Cimoc,
eventually meeting three writers with whom he would form productive
partnerships. With Antonio Segura he created the Amazon fantasy series Sarvan, and the series Kraken, depicting a sewer monster
terrorizing a futuristic fascist society.
Bernet's more recent publications include several albums
for the Italian western character Tex
Willer, and a run of work for the
U.S. comics market, including a Batman story, and a trilogy detailing "the
shocking origin" of Jonah Hex. Bernet later continued to work with Jimmy
Palmiotti and Justin Gray on Jonah Hex.
Jordi appeared in one Euro-western the futuristic
“Atolladero” (1994) in the role of a cowboy.
BERNET, Jordi
[6/14/1944, Barcelona, Cataluna, Spain -
] – comic book artist.
Atolladero - 1994 (cowboy)
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