1. Carlos Sanchez Ezquerra was a Spanish comics artist who worked mainly in British comics.
13 Facts About Carlos Ezquerra
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Carlos Ezquerra is best known as the co-creator of Judge Dredd.
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Carlos Ezquerra drew "Rat Pack": inspired by the film The Dirty Dozen, the strip, written by Gerry Finley-Day, featured a gang of criminals recruited to carry out suicide missions.
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Carlos Ezquerra drew nearly 100 episodes in the next two and a half years, basing the character's appearance on the actor James Coburn.
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Carlos Ezquerra was asked to visualise a new character, future lawman Judge Dredd, for the science fiction weekly 2000 AD, prior to its launch in 1977.
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Carlos Ezquerra returned to Battle, where he teamed up with Alan Hebden to create "El Mestizo", a black gun-for-hire who played both sides against the middle during the American Civil War.
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Carlos Ezquerra was almost the only artist to draw the character, until 1988, when writer Alan Grant decided to kill him off in a storyline called "The Final Solution".
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Carlos Ezquerra disagreed with the decision, and refused to draw the story, which was instead illustrated by Simon Harrison and Colin MacNeil.
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In 2000 Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra revived "Strontium Dog" based on a treatment Wagner had written for an abortive TV pilot.
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Carlos Ezquerra collaborated numerous times with writer Garth Ennis on Bloody Mary, Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, War Stories, The Boys: The Self-Preservation Society, a Hitman annual, two Preacher specials for DC Comics, and Just a Pilgrim for Black Bull Entertainment.
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Carlos Ezquerra died of lung cancer on 1 October 2018, at the age of 70.
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Carlos Ezquerra never retired, and his uncompleted final work, "Spector," was published posthumously in June 2019 by 2000 AD.
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Carlos Ezquerra drew the artwork on the header cards for Corgi model's range of X-Ploratron die-cast models.