Jose Casanovas

Jose Casanovas, Sr. (1934 to 2009), who was born Jose Maria Casanovas Magri, was a Spanish comic artist who worked in Britain for Fleetway, drawing episodes of Tharg's Future Shocks, Ro-Jaws Robo Tales, Judge Dredd, Tharg's Time Twisters, two one-off stories and three serials from Mark Millar's reimagined Robo-Hunter in 2000 AD, Max Normal in the first four editions of the Judge Dredd Annual, and episodes of The Amstor Computer, Star Rider and a couple of one-off stories in the revived 1980s version of the Eagle, as well as drawing five issues of DC Thomson's SF digest title Starblazer and contributing (unfortunately anonymously) to various girls titles throught the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, including True Life, Love Story, Star Love, June, Tammy, Sandie, Jinty, Lindy, Emma, Penny and Mandy. He also drew for both Star-Lord (notably the memorably horrific one-off story Good Morning Sheldon, I Love You) and Scream! His son, also called Jose Casanovas and also a comics artist, collaborated with him on the Robo-Hunter series. Casanovas also worked extensively in various European publications until at least 2006. He died on 14th March 2009.