Surely some do not know Carlos Ezquerra, but if we talk about who is the co-author of Judge DreddSurely we are beginning to give greater identity to one of our best cartoonists. It was in 1977 when he was recognized worldwide when he brought Judge Dredd to life in the drawing.
We are talking about a character created with screenwriter John Wagner for 2000 AD magazine. A law enforcement officer who moves like a fish in water in a futuristic city called Megacity One. A true pop culture character that continues to be in vogue with all that large number of superheroes on the big screens.
Yesterday, Monday, October 1, 2018, Carlos Ezquerra, born in Zaragoza in 1947, passed away. It was in the XNUMXs when the cartoonist from Zaragoza worked for the British magazine Battle Picture Weekly. In it you could see Series like Rat Pack, Major Eazy and El Mestizo.
Ezquerra was one of the first Spanish cartoonists to work for the Anglo-Saxon industry, paving the way and clearing it for the arrival of many others who have shown the great talent of many of these parts.
Judge Dredd was created in 1977 with John Wagner. A character that was born at the same time as Tatcherism British and that has to do with the attitudes of Franco's Spain; as Ezquerra himself recognizes. Dredd was born as his own denunciation of the rise of fascism and presents a society in which individual freedoms no longer exist; the policemen are judges, juries and executioners.
A cartoonist who leaves us with a brilliant legacy and that he will become one of those illustrious cartoonists. It was in this same year we lost Forges, another genius of drawing with a very prominent social message, like Carlos Ezquerra.