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Leopoldo Sánchez "THE DREAM" Barcelona: 9th Arte Collective, 1980 Limited edition of 333 copies. Eight sheets. The first page is signed in pencil by Leopoldo Sánchez. Prologue by Mariano Hispano. Folder made with Super Alfa wire paper and Ingres wire paper sheets (both from Guarro Casas). Leopoldo Sánchez Ortiz (Cartagena, August 12, 1948 – November 13, 2021) was a Spanish painter and cartoonist. In the 1970s he collaborated with Spanish and foreign publishers, in Trinca he published an adaptation of Don Quixote, and, through the Toutain agency, he began to work with several Warren Publishing publications, such as Creepy, Rufus, Vampus and Vampirella, and the German magazine Kung-Fu, for which Jeff Blake, Pinkerton's man, is responsible. During the so-called adult comic boom era, he created memorable works such as Bogey, mainly for Norma Editorial's Cimoc magazine. In 1982, together with other renowned cartoonists such as his cousin José Ortiz, Jordi Bernet, Mariano Hispano and Manfred Sommer, he joined the management of Ediciones Metropol, taking advantage of the expansion of comic magazines for adults, a publisher that published three magazines. : Metropol, Mocambo and KO Strips, all short-lived.
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