Jorge Longaron

Jorge Longarón was a Spanish comic artist, book cover illustrator and painter. He worked on war and western comic books in his home country and romance comics in the UK, but he is most famous as the original artist behind the soap opera newspaper comic 'Friday Foster' (1969-1974), written by Jim Lawrence. Together with Jackie Ormes' 'Torchy Brown' (1937-1940), it was the earliest U.S. newspaper comic to star an African-American woman, though 'Friday Foster' had a much longer and more nation-wide distribution.…Comiclopedia