Vicente Alcazar

Vicente Alcazar (born July 8, 1944) is a Spanish comics artist best known for his work for the American comic-book publishers DC Comics and Marvel Comics, including a 1970s run on the DC Western character Jonah Hex.

His name is sometimes mis-credited as "Vincente" Alcazar.

Career Born in Madrid, Spain, The team additionally drew stories based on the U.S. television series Star Trek for issues #74-105 of City Magazines' 1969-1971 weekly British magazine TV21.

At the recommendation of artist Gray Morrow, then editing then Archie Comics' imprint Red Circle Comics, American publishers began using Alcazar's work in the mid-1970s.

Alcazar quickly became a regular freelancer for Archie, Marvel, Warren, and soon DC Comics and Charlton Comics, primarily drawing horror stories but also sword-and-sorcery (drawing the cover and inking penciler Val Mayerik's "Thongor! Warrior of Lost Lemuria" feature in Marvel's Creatures on the Loose #27, Jan. 1974); war comics (DC's Star-Spangled War Stories #178 (Feb. 1974); and science fiction (the Larry Niven short story adaptation "...Not Long Before The End" in Marvel's black-and-white comics magazine Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction #3, May 1975; and stories in Charlton's similar Space: 1999 #6-8, Aug.-Oct. 1976).

Writer Shaqui Le Vesconte said of Alcazar's Space: 1999, "His style was very Gothic and experimental, using a variety of techniques that could be described as 'monochrome psychedelic', and matching the nightmarish feel of episodes like 'Missing Link', 'End of Eternity' and 'Dragon's Domain'".

After inking penciler Ernie Chan on DC's Jonah Hex #8 (Jan. 1978), he became that Western series' regular penciler and inker beginning with #12 (May 1978), working with writer Michael Fleisher. He continued through #22 (March 1979) and additionally drew #27 (Aug. 1979). which won the 2012 award for Best Comic Book at the Burbank International Film Festival. He did some work for Archie Comics' Afterlife with Archie in 2014, and the following year began drawing for the D. C. Thomson & Co. series Commando.