One of the excellent artists on Commando, Ricardo Garijo, has sadly died aged just 55. There's a very warm tribute to him over on D.C. Thomson's Commando website:
http://www.commandomag.com/index.php?id=1074#c000462
More information is also on John Freeman's essential Down the Tubes blog:
http://downthetubescomics.blogspot.com ... mando.html
Ricardo Garijo
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Re: Ricardo Garijo
"Need To Know" is actually right at the top of my "to read" pile. Might go and read it right now. Every Commando artist has a distinctive style, when one dies or leaves it's like a part of the comic's history has come to an end (apart from reprints!)
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Re: Ricardo Garijo
He was one of my favourite Commando artists because of the amount of detail he put into each panel. He must have been a pretty fast worker to turn out 64 pages of that stuff on a regular basis. I was a big fan of Alfredo Alcala for the same reason.