1. Luis Eduardo Barreto Ferreyra was a Uruguayan artist who worked in the comic book and comic strip industries including several years of prominent work for DC Comics.
15 Facts About Eduardo Barreto
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Eduardo Barreto grew up reading comics and being an avid supporter of his favorite soccer team, Club Nacional de Football.
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In interviews, Barreto reminisced about the time when, at age seven, he was reading a comic and decided he would grow up to be a professional comic strip artist.
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Eduardo Barreto created the strip intending to sell it to a syndicate, as his first love in comics was strips, and called it El Poderoso Halcon.
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At age 21, Eduardo Barreto was publishing a strip all across Latin America.
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Eduardo Barreto returned to Montevideo, and supplemented his comic work for El Dia with artwork for advertising agencies.
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Eduardo Barreto never had received the letter, as it had been sent to his former address.
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Eduardo Barreto had reached a certain ceiling in the regional market.
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Eduardo Barreto did most of his US work for DC Comics and the Uruguay audience knew him as the "Uruguayan Batman artist", something that was only a partial look at his work.
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In 1989 and 1990, Eduardo Barreto drew The Shadow Strikes with writer Gerard Jones.
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Eduardo Barreto inked the first appearance of Agent Liberty in Superman vol.
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Eduardo Barreto worked on DC's Birds of Prey in 2004 and 2006.
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Eduardo Barreto taught comic book classes in ORT university, and was part of the jury in one of the comic contests for Montevideo Comics, a local convention.
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Eduardo Barreto eventually returned to Judge Parker, and continued working on that and occasional stories with other characters, such as Superman and Captain Action.
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Eduardo Barreto's last published work was in DC Retroactive: Superman - The '70s, finished from his hospital bed, and with some pages drawn by fellow Uruguayan Christian Duce.