Argentinean comic book artist Juan Giménez, known for his work on Metal Hurlant and The Metabarons, has died from COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus. He was 76 years old.
Giménez’s
early work appeared in Argentinean, Spanish and Italian comic books,
although his mainstream breakthrough came with his work for the Metal Hurlant and L’Eternauta anthologies in the 1980s, including his work on the Heavy Metal animated
feature, for which he designed the “Harry Canyon” segment. Arguably his
career peak arrived in the early 1990s, when he co-created the popular
science fiction series The Metabarons with filmmaker and author Alejandro Jodorowsky, which ran through eight graphic novels before concluding in 2003.
"I closely collaborated with Juan Giménez for 10 years and together, we created The Metabarons saga,” Jodorowsky
said in a statement. “What facilitated my task as we offered him to
work on the complex world of the Metabarons was that he already embodied
the immortal No-Name, the last Metabaron. In my unconscious, Juan
Giménez cannot die. He will continue on, drawing like the master warrior
that he was."
To read the entire Hollywood Reporter obituary, click HERE. If you want to check out Jodorowsky and Gimenez's The Metabarons, a masterpiece of epic psychedelic science fiction mind-fuckery par excellence, then the proper place to begin is The Metabarons Vol. 1: Orthon & Honorata.
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