Ángel Pardo (cartoonist)

Angel Pardo Ruiz (Santoña, February 29, 1924 - Villadiego (Burgos), March 20, 1995), was a celebrated Spanish cartoonist. Biography His parents, Claudiano and Consuelo, natives of Olmos de la Picaza and Villadiego (Burgos) were in Santoña, where the father played his profession as a non-commissioned artillery officer in the Pasaje barracks.

Angel Pardo began in the world of professional illustration in 1943, drawing children's comics for the magazine Leyendas Infantiles, Editorial Teodoro Delgado, from where his art jumped to Jaimito or Arrows and Pelayos until in 1947 had his first great success for Editorial Bruguera: The Knight of the Three Crosses.

This character was followed by Raul de Montrose, the covers of The Phantom Righteous and several notebooks for the collection Bison Graphic, where his greatest contribution would be the series Captain O'Dare, which would cover the notebooks 18-24 of the series.

After several minor works, in 1959 appeared in the markets his first collaboration in the series of The Thunder Captain, personage in which it would mark a before and after, becoming one of the most worthy followers of Ambrós. With almost three thousand pages of the series behind him, it was the model to be imitated by other artists, especially Martínez Osete.

Angel Pardo collaborated with Bruguera in many of his collections, such as the Super DDT, Selection Stories, Juvenile Literary, Stories Collection, Graphic Bison, Extra Illustrated Bison, Extra Pimpinela Collection, Little Rider Collection, Thumb, etc. before plunging into deep depression at the death of his mother.

He lived in Madrid, Valladolid and Barcelona, ​​spending the last years of his life in Villadiego, hometown of his mother.

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