15 Facts About Sandu Florea

Sandu Florea eventually left the country shortly after the 1989 Revolution, and soon after began collaborating with Marvel, DC Comics and other leading enterprises in the field of comic book publishing.

Sandu Florea has maintained enduring contacts with his native country, and has taken an initiative in popularizing the American comic book style in Romania.

Sandu Florea has been described as one of the most successful among his colleagues, and claimed to be one of the most recognizable Romanians in his field.

Sandu Florea published his first comic strip in 1968, with Luminita children's magazine.

In 1971, Sandu Florea graduated from Bucharest's Architectural College, and subsequently worked for a building design institute in his adoptive city of Timisoara.

Sandu Florea was involved in creating Romania's own Western comics, adapted from stories by Nicolae Frinculescu.

Sandu Florea received attention from celebrated poet Nichita Stanescu, who discovered in an unclassifiable and imaginative work.

Sandu Florea printed the lithographs to go with the poems, but the project was cut short when Stanescu died.

Sandu Florea returned to public attention after the 1989 Revolution, when he was briefly editor in chief of the new children's magazine.

Sandu Florea was accepted by Marvel soon after this, specialized as an inker, and began working on several of its main releases, including, alongside Conan, The Amazing Spider-Man and the various spin-offs of Avengers, Blackwulf, Elektra, Mighty Thor, Captain America, Doctor Strange, Fantastic Four and X-Men.

Sandu Florea was selected honorary president of the Romanian Association of Comic Book Fans in 2001.

The magazine featured Borderland, a comic series conceived especially for a Romanian public by writer John Warner and illustrated by Sandu Florea, depicting the confrontation between three worlds: of the Mortals, of Magic and of the Demons.

Sandu Florea argued that Toxic in particular was "weak and obvious", and noted that, in its featured edition, the text of Borderland evidenced its translator's poor command of the Romanian language.

In 2010, Sandu Florea was guest of honor at the European Comic Strip Salon, organized by the Romanian Cultural Institute at the National Theater Bucharest.

Sandu Florea exhibited his work, including the never before seen Semne si desemne collection, at the Bucharest "Comic Book Museum" exhibit, jointly organized by the ICR and the Belgian Comic Strip Center in 2011.