Juan Antonio Giménez López, known simply as Juan Giménez (Mendoza, November 26, 1943 - Mendoza, April 2, 2020), was an Argentine cartoonist and illustrator, known for his comic science fiction stories published in various countries around the world .
Passionate about drawing from an early age, at the age of ten he loved copying the covers of paperback books and American and Spanish magazines; later, in his adolescence, he put on paper the sequences of the films that had most struck him. After studying industrial design in Mendoza, he moved to Barcelona to attend the Academy of Fine Arts; when he returned to Argentina he made his debut as a cartoonist publishing with the Argentine publishing houses Colomba and Record and then dedicated himself to the field of advertising and animation. He returned to Spain in 1970, settling on the Costa Brava, where he resumed his activity as a cartoonist collaborating with various authors such as Carlos Trillo or Ricardo Barreiro and publishing his stories in Spanish magazines.
In
March 2020 he began to show symptoms of COVID-19, a disease that led
to his death on April 2 of that same year.
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