Antonio Pérez-García y Carrillo

Antonio Pérez-García y Carrillo (or Carrillo in short) is a Spanish comic artist born in Málaga, who has illustrated a great many exotic series starring adventurous sailors throughout his career. Due to the Spanish Civil War, the Pérez-Garcia family had to move to Valencia and evenutally France, because of the father's Republican sympathies. They returned in Spain without the latter in 1939, but were reunited in Madrid in 1945. By then, Carrillo had got his interest in comics by reading Flechas y Pelayos and Chicos and was studying Anatomy at the School of Fine Arts.…Comiclopedia