Luis Bermejo (illustrator)

Luis Bermejo Rojo (12 August 1931 – 12 December 2015) was a Spanish illustrator and comics artist known for his work published in Spain, Italy, Great Britain, and the United States.

[1] Bermejo initially learned the trade as the assistant of Manuel Gago,[2] before he began his comic book artist career in Britain in the late 1950s when through the agency A.L.I., he worked in the titles Girls' Crystal and Tarzan Weekly.

For much of the 1960s, Bermejo worked out of a studio in Valencia, Spain for the agency Bardon Arts with other artists including José Ortiz, Miguel Quesada, and Emilio Frego.

In 1974, Bermejo, along with fellow Valencia Studio artists José Ortiz and Leopoldo Sanchez, joined the agency Selecciones Ilustradas and soon started working for Warren Publishing in the US.

[citation needed] Bermejo wrote and drew an adaption of El Señor de los Anillos (The Lord of the Rings) in Spain in 1980.