Oscar Zarate
Oscar Zárate (born 1942) is an Argentine comic book artist and illustrator. Zarate studied architecture and had a successful career in advertising in Argentina. He moved to Europe in 1971 and began to work in earnest as an illustrator.
Oscar Zarate
- Born
- 1942
- Birthplace
- Argentina
- Occupation
- illustrator · comics artist
- Languages
- Spanish
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Oscar Zárate (born 1942) is an Argentine comic book artist and illustrator. Zarate studied architecture and had a successful career in advertising in Argentina. He moved to Europe in 1971 and began to work in earnest as an illustrator.
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He has drawn for the UK comics magazine Crisis. In the Introducing.. And..For Beginners book series he illustrated texts written by Richard Appignanesi, Alexei Sayle, Dylan Evans, J P McEvoy, Angus Gellatly, Rupert Woodfin and Christopher Marlowe. He is perhaps best known in the United States as the artist for the graphic novel A Small Killing written by Alan Moore, a one-shot story about a rising star in the world of advertising who is being stalked by a sadistic child.
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• Born — 1942 • Birthplace — Argentina • Art — y • Notable Works — A Small Killing
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Oscar Zarate is recorded as illustrator and comics artist.
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1942
Oscar Zarate was born in 1942 at Argentina.
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- Lenin for Beginners (Writers and Readers, 1977) — written by Richard Appignanesi
- Freud for Beginners (Writers and Readers, 1979) — written by Richard Appignanesi
- William Shakespeare's Othello (Ravette, 1983)
- Dr Faustus (World Theatre Classics) (Abacus, 1986, ) - written by Christopher Marlowe
- Geoffrey the Tube Train and the Fat Comedian (Methuen, 1987, ) — written by Alexei Sayle
- A Small Killing (VG Graphics, 1991) — written by Alan Moore
- Stephen Hawking for Beginners (Icon Books, 1995) — written by J.P. McEvoy
- Quantum Theory for Beginners (Icon Books, 1996) — written by J.P. McEvoy
- Mind & Brain for Beginners (Icon Books, 1998) — written by Angus Gellatly
- Introducing Evolutionary Psychology (Icon Books, 1999) — written by Dylan Evans
- Introducing Existentialism (Icon Books, 2001) — written by Richard Appignanesi
- Introducing Marxism (Icon Books, 2004) — written by Rupert Woodfin
- It's Dark in London (SelfMadeHero, 2012) — editor, written and illustrated by various artists and authors
- The Park (SelfMadeHero, 2013)
- Graphic Freud: Hysteria (SelfMadeHero, 2015) — words by Richard Appignanesi
- Thomas Girtin: The Forgotten Painter (SelfMadeHero, 2023)
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Wikidata, structured authority record Q7106332: Oscar ZarateWikimedia Foundation
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Introducing Evolutionary Psychology
Dylan Evans, Oscar Zarate, The Quarterly Review of Biology, 2001
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