Víctor de la Fuente

Víctor de la Fuente was a Spanish comic book artist and writer born in 1927, who passed away on 2 July 2010. Over the course of a career spanning decades, he established himself as one of the more versatile and prolific European practitioners of the western and heroic fantasy genres, contributing work across a remarkable range of titles.

His catalog reflects an impressive breadth of output — credited as artist, colorist, inker, letterer, and writer across nearly 190 issues, with activity documented from the early 1960s through to the mid-2020s in collected or reprinted form. Among the titles most closely associated with his name are the long-running British war digest series Commando and War Picture Library, the Scandinavian Kamp-serien, and the celebrated Italian western franchise Tex, appearing in both the Tex Gigante and Tex Willer formats, as well as the title Colt. This concentration in war comics and western adventure narratives underscores where his storytelling instincts were sharpest — action-driven sequences, rugged landscapes, and characters defined by physical consequence.

De la Fuente belonged to a generation of Spanish artists who quietly sustained European genre comics from behind the scenes, often working for foreign markets. His body of work, spread across multiple national publishing traditions, stands as a substantial contribution to mid-to-late twentieth century adventure comics.