José Antonio Muñoz
José Antonio Muñoz or simply Muñoz (born July 10, 1942) is an Argentine comics artist. He is most notable for his influential black-and-white artwork. His hardboiled graphic novels series Alack Sinner (with writer Carlos Sampayo) is a noted source for Frank Miller's Sin City and the artwork in 100 Bullets by Eduardo Risso.
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José Antonio Muñoz
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- 1942.
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- Argentina.
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José Antonio Muñoz or simply Muñoz (born July 10, 1942) is an Argentine comics artist. He is most notable for his influential black-and-white artwork. His hardboiled graphic novels series Alack Sinner (with writer Carlos Sampayo) is a noted source for Frank Miller's Sin City and the artwork in 100 Bullets by Eduardo Risso.
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Muñoz was born in Buenos Aires. He studied at the Escuela Panamericana de Arte under Hugo Pratt and Alberto Breccia, and worked as an assistant to Francisco Solano López. In 1972 he moved to Spain and then to Italy and began a collaboration with Argentine writer Carlos Sampayo which produced, among others, the detective series Alack Sinner (sometimes misspelled "Allack Sinner") and its spin-offs Joe's Bar and Sophie, as well as a comics biography of Billie Holiday. His style is characterised by a sharp line, heavy chiaroscuro, and exaggerated, sometimes grotesque, faces and figures. His work has had a strong influence on Argentine Alberto Breccia, his teacher. Also British artists Dave McKean and Warren Pleece, and US artists Frank Miller (for part of his Sin City style) and Keith Giffen. The cartoonist and critic Scott McCloud, in Understanding Comics (1993), wrote that "in José Muñoz's work, dense puddles of ink and fraying linework combine to evoke a world of depravity and morbid decay".
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1942
José Antonio Muñoz born at Buenos Aires.
Awards
1978: Best Foreign Realistic Work at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, France 1983: Best Comic Book at the Angoulême International Comics Festival 1994: Harvey Award for Best American Edition of Foreign Material 2002: Special Prize for outstanding life’s work at the Max & Moritz Prizes, Germany 2007: Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, France 2010: U Giancu's Prize, International Cartoonists Exhibition, Rappollo, Italy 2022: Platinum Konex Award for his work in the last decade, Konex Foundation, Argentina.
Argentinian cómic authors José Muñoz y Carlos Sampayo
Tito La Penna · Revista Fierro Nº 1 Año 1. Septiembre de 1984
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- 1.Interview: Eduardo Risso.
- 2.Miskatonic site
- 3.McCloud, Scott. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art. HarperCollins. 126. 1994.
- 4.Harvey Awards site
- 5.José Antonio Muñoz Konex Award. Fundación Konex.
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