Arturo del Castillo

Arturo Pérez Del Castillo was an Argentine-based comic book artist born in Concepción, Chile, in 1925, who died in 1992. He relocated to Buenos Aires in 1948, and it was there that his career took root and flourished across several decades.

Through the 1950s, Del Castillo contributed to a number of prominent Argentine publications, including Aventuras, Intervalo, El Tony, and Hora Cero. It was at Hora Cero that he produced what many consider his signature work: Randall: the Killer, a series written by the celebrated scriptwriter Héctor Oesterheld. The collaboration showcased Del Castillo's facility with tension and character, qualities that translated naturally into the Western genre, which would come to define much of his output.

Beyond his original work, Del Castillo demonstrated considerable range as an adapter, bringing Alexandre Dumas novels to the comics page and producing Western strips for British publishers Fleetway and Cowboy Picture Library. His draftsmanship earned him an international readership, with his work reprinted across Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Yugoslavia, and Argentina itself. Titles such as Lasso, Skorpio, and Lone Rider Picture Library kept his art in circulation across multiple markets.

Del Castillo left behind a body of work spanning hundreds of issues, representing a distinguished contribution to adventure and Western comics on both sides of the Atlantic.