Creator/Dell

Cary

Cary has 13 credited comics indexed across 3 series, working as penciller, inker.

Carles Fontserè was a multifaceted artist who developed activities such as set designer, illustrator, advertising artist, and photographer. He began drawing professionally very young, at 15 years old. During the Spanish Civil War, he was a soldier in the International Brigades and stood out as a poster artist. Once the war was over, he lived through the Second World War and the immediate post-war years in exile in France. Among the various activities (including non-artistic jobs) that he carried out in France, he drew several comic strips, such as “La vie heroïque de Charles de Foucauld”, “Texas Bill, le roi du lasso”, and “Pedrillo le jeune spagnol”. He signed the comics he made in France either as Charles or as Cari. In 1948, Carles Fontserè travelled to Mexico, where he collaborated with Mario Moreno “Cantinflas” in a revue show, for which Fontserè designed the costumes and sets. In 1950 he settled in New York where he stayed until the 1970s. In this period, he did comics, book illustrations, covers, and advertising, among other things, including his collaboration on set designs with Salvador Dalí, and his work as a photographer. His participation in Dell’s comic books featuring “Wild Bill Elliott” was the main comics work that Fontserè made in the United States. The episodes he drew were published anonymously except for “The Ghost of Poco Loco Ridge”, which he signed as Cary. Elizabeth Beecher provided him with scripts. Carles Fontserè returned to Spain in 1973. He was awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi by the Generalitat de Catalunya in 1985.