Edmond Fernández Ripoll / Edmundo Ripoli (born March 1938; Barcelona, Spain)
Edmond Fernández Ripoll (or simply Edmond) is a Catalan comic book artist and illustrator. His most famous creation is Jan Europa.

He worked in a hardware store and with an advertising agency before he was hired by the publishing house Bruguera to draw comics based on TV series for Tele Color, like Rin-Tin-Tin, Bonanza and Bronco from 1959.

During the 1960s, he provided art for girls' magazines like Celia, As de Corazones and Sissi, and he also made the comic adaptations 'Tom Sawyer' and 'La capitana del Yucatán' for the collection Joyas Literarias Juveniles.

He subsequently made fantasy stories like 'Supernova' with Victor Mora (Súper Mortadelo, 1973), 'Fantasia S.A.' with Andreu Martín (Tío Vivo, 1975), and 'Los Titanes' with Andreu Martin (Super Sacarino, Super Ases).

In 1976 he created Eva Star for Can Can.

The first comic he both wrote and drew was Jan Europa, his most popular work that was published in Mortadelo from 1979. It was followed in 1984 by the similar Dr. Impossible, the urban drama Fede y sus colegas, Sindy, La Tribu and La vida crítica y la crítica de la vida during the 1980s. Many of these serials ran in TBO, for which he also made movie parodies.

Edmond has also worked for several foreign publications through agencies like Creaciones Editoriales. He drew the sci-fi series Brigade Temporelle for the Futura> comic book by Éditions Lug from Lyon, France, from 1972.

For the British market, he drew Mike Nelson for Battle Picture Library, and for Smash! the soccer comic The Handcuff Hotspurs and stories about film stuntman Tyler the Tamer.

He worked for the Dutch girl's magazine Tina of the publishing house Oberon for more than 30 years. Edmond illustrated a great many independent stories, as well as recurring features like Mimi, Sas en Lies, Elsje de Windt, Astrid, Meta van de Bokkesprong and Duikclub Barracuda.

During the final years of his collaboration, he succeeded Purita Campos as the artist of the title comic Tina en Debbie between 2007 and 2010.

His last creation was Fede y sus colegas, dramón urbano por entregas, scripted by Jaume Ribera for the TBO magazine of Ediciones B.

Besides drawing comics, he is also a book illustrator and painter of movie posters.
Source: Lambiek; Illustration Art Gallery