Francisco Solano López
Argentine artist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Francisco Solano López was an Argentine comics artist. He was the co-creator of El Eternauta. Career Born in Buenos Aires, Solano López began his career in 1953 working for the publishing house Columba where he illustrated the series Perico y Guillerma. Working for Editorial Abril he met Héctor Germán Oesterheld, assigned to illustrate his series Bull Rocket for the magazine Misterix. They collaborated on the series Pablo Maran and Uma-Uma, before joining to start Oesterheld's publishing house Editorial Frontera. For the Frontera's first publication of the monthly Hora Cero, the team produced the series Rolo el marciano adoptivo and El Héroe. López also alternated as an artist on the Ernie Pike series with Hugo Pratt, Jorge Moliterni and José Antonio Muñoz. On September 4, 1957, in the publication of Hora Cero Suplemento Semanal, the science-fiction series El Eternauta made its first appearance.
