Argentinian comic artist Germán Erramouspe is well known today for his horror comic work with award-winning writer, producer, and comic book creator Rodney Barnes. downthetubes presents a brief look at his career to date…
Starting out in comics in his teens, creating his own fanzines, he’s had a busy career since making his debut as a professional comic artist in his home country in 2005, drawing the series “El Hombre Primordial” (“The Primordial Man”), written by Mauro Mantella. It was published in six chapters in the anthology magazine, Bastión Unlimited, edited by Gárgola Ediciones, and later collected by Rabdomantes Ediciones in 2017.
“There’s a very personal goal I have as a cartoonist: to try to never stagnate,” Germán said in an interview for Legado de Orfeo in 2020. “All things considered, that’s my admiration for Alberto Breccia. He was an enlightened figure, a beacon to guide us… When he was around 40, Breccia began experimenting and grew to incredible levels. I still have a bit of hope; I’m not even 40 yet, but I’m close. But that’s the goal, to never stagnate.”
Germán made his debut in American comics in 2012 for Avatar Press after his work on Hard Graft, an independently-published project by British creator Peter Vine, subsequently published on the web comics platform Graphicly (no longer in operation). A James Bond-styled adventure, Hard Graft, which also featured the art of American comic comic artist Jules Rivera, centred on the adventures of uncompromising tough guy Alan Corbett and his friends, as they bump into each other at random places across the globe.
His credits for Avatar Press include the first six issues of the series Night of The Living Dead, written by David Hine, and Disenchanted, written by Simon Spurrier, and four issues of Crossed: Badlands, a series created by Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows, drawing issues 40, 41,42 and 43, written by David Hine. This was followed by three issues of God is Dead, a series created by Jonathan Hickman and Mike Costa, and the mini series, Dark Gods, created by Justin Joran.
His work for Dynamite Entertainment began in 2016, drawing some pages of #3 and #4 of Grimm, followed by the miniseries, Green Hornet: Generations in 2017, the latter written by Amy Chiu.
He returned to work for Argentinian comics in 2019, drawing the first volume of Rancat for Capitán Ediciones, before making his debut in the French industry in 2020, pencilling an adaptation of the novel Les Morts ont tous la méme peu by Boris Vian, scripted by Jean-David Moran, inked by Mauro Vargas, published by Glénat.
After working as an advertising storyboard artist in 2021, he began collaborating with Rodney Barnes and Jason Alexander on the Eisner Award nominated series Killadelphia, his stories collected in Volume 5 of the long-running series.
More recently, he’s been working on The Butcher of Black Bottom, written by Rodney Barnes, initially published via the award-winning writer, producer, and comic book creator’s Dark Apocrypha Presents Substack, which will be collected in print through Barnes’ Zombie Love Studios.
The Butcher of Black Bottom is a slasher horror set in 1920’s Detroit, a time when the city is seeing a large influx of African American migrants from the South and racial tensions are reaching a boiling point. To make things worse, a titular serial killer is on the loose and bringing that boil to raging fire.
“The Butcher of Black Bottom speaks to the struggle to find racial harmony in a post-Civil War America,” Barnes has previously revealed, “where the migration of blacks from the South meets an industrialising North wrestling with its own issues. As one might imagine finding peace at this time was no easy chore.”
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• Germán Erramouspe is represented by the Radebu: Comic Book Author Agency
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• Read a two-part 2020 interview with Germán Erramouspe at Legado de Orfeo, conducted in Spanish by Maximiliano Britos| Part One | Part Two
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• Geeky: El Hombre Primordial Review (in Spanish)
“The Primordial Man is a complex and detailed story, comparable with many other great international works of the genre.”
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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