Eduardo Barreto

Eduardo Barreto (born 1954 in Montevideo, † December 15, 2011 ) was an Uruguayan artist and cartoonist.

Life

Barreto began his cartoonist career in 1979 in his native Uruguay, when he drew the Sunday pages of the newspaper comics El Cid. Since the 1980s, he worked as a professional comic book artist in the United States. He worked both as Bleistiftvorzeichner as well as on working Pens.

Since 1983, Barreto drew almost exclusively for DC Comics. There he oversaw the first series Atari Force and Infinity Inc..

In the 1990s, Barreto continued to work mainly for DC, where he took among other duties for the artist written by John Francis Moore graphic novel Under a Yellow Sun. In addition, he was a regular technical pen for the series The New Teen Titans as well as some one-shots like Vengeance of Bane II or Huntress / Spoiler: Blunt trauma and some mini series such as Martian Manhunter: American Secrets (1992 ), Man-Bat (1996 ) or Gotham Nights II ( 1995) jurisdiction and frequently did the role of a guest - signer or tuschers for individual issues of series like Robin, Superman, Martian Manhunter, Batman, Xero, Detective Comics or Justice League Quarterly.

In addition, he has for the publisher Claypool Comics series serves as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, for the Oni Press series The Long Haul and for Marvel Comics the Marvel Knights series. In 2006 he took over the appearing in several U.S. newspapers comic strip Judge Parker, whom he - apart from an illness of several weeks pause in which he was represented by Graham Nolan - drew up last.

Barreto lived with his wife Alice Barreto, with whom he had three children (Diego, Andrea and Gullerno ), in Montevideo.