Manfred Sommer, 1933-2007



The invaluable Forbidden Planet blog brings word through Neorama that the classic comics illustrator Manfred Sommer has recently passed away after a year-long illness. Sommer was best known for series like El Lobo Solitario, Polux, El Tigre and Frank Cappa, and an approach to comics illustration that matched the approach of classic adventure comics artists like Milton Caniff and Hugo Pratt. He began work in comics as a teenager in the late 1940s, and sold several piece through an agent to the British comics market, but most would say the artist hit his stride with the above-mentioned adventure work (Cappa, for instance, was a military correspondent) in the early 1980s. Although I'm not sure when exactly this took place, Sommer would go on to handle some art duties on the Bonelli series Tex, and had 90 pages on a new story completed at the time of his death. He was 74 years old.


 
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