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Cover of the week: Los reyes Elfos #1 by Victor Santos

Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Los Reyes Elfos #1

Los Reyes Elfos #1

Victor Santos’ Los Reyes Elfos (The Elven Kings) is a 2 issue miniseries (later reprinted in a softcover) self-published in 2000 under the label 7 monos.

On the personal side, I have to say that I didn’t see the series’ potential when I was offered to “invest” on it. But it was a big success in the Spanish comics independent market and gave a big push to Victor’s career, helping him to to keep working and evolving constantly up to reach a very high level as shown in works like Mice Templar or Filthy Rich.

Definitively, a work that has to be known…

Curiosities: Nexus by Matt Wagner (fan mail)

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

When indexing Nexus #6 (Capital Comics, 1983 series) for GCD I found this rare drawing by Grendel’s Matt Wagner in the letters section.

Matt Wagner drawing for Nexus Fan Mail

Matt Wagner drawing for Nexus Fan Mail

As you can see in the index, the issue is dated in March 1984.

I will try to confirm it was actually made by him (and no one else also called Matt Wagner).