RIP Calpurnio

 

Spanish comic book illustrator and animator Calpurnio died in Valencia, Spain on December 15, 2022. He was 63. Born Eduardo Pelegrín Martínez de Pisón in 1959 in Zaragoza, Spain he began his career at the El Heraldo de Aragón and El País during this time he also was an illustrator on such comic books as The Man of the West (1999), The Molecular Cowboy (2000) and The Samurai Cowboy. Calpurnio created the famous Spanish character Cuttlas which was seen in many comic books. He worked on one Euro-western “Atolladero” (1995) as an animation director.