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Jan is the pseudonym of Juan López Fernández (March 13, 1939- ), Spanish comic book writer and artist, most famous for his creation Superlópez. He was born in the town of Toral de los Vados, in the province of León. Completely deaf from the age of six, his parents encouraged him to draw and in 1956, he began to work in a studio in order to learn animation. A pseudonym (Greek: false name) is a fictitious name used by an individual as an alternative to their legal name (whereas an allonym is the name of another actual person assumed by one person in authorship of a work of art; e. ...
March 13 is the 72nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (73rd in leap years). ...
1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
León province León is a province of northwestern Spain, in the northwestern part of the autonomous community of Castile and León. ...
The word deaf, can have very different meanings based on the background of the person speaking or the context in which the word is used. ...
1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Animation is the technique in which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model unit (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result with a...
 Self-portrait of Jan, alongside his creation, Superlópez He emigrated to Cuba in 1959 where he worked in Televisión Cubana (Cuban Television) and the Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (CAIC) (Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry). He also collaborated on some periodicals for children at this time, and later on, on actual comic books and newspaper supplements. 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Returning to Spain in 1969, Jan worked in the now no longer extant publishing house Editorial Bruguera and helped illustrate the work of other comic book artists. 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ...
In 1973, however, Jan created Superlópez, a parodized version of Superman. It was a series that began as a single page and later expanded into full albums, with adventures involving supervillains and criminal organizations, but also concerning issues affecting contemporary Spain (the drug trade, the transition to democracy, etc.). The stories had originally been written by Efepé (pseudonym of Francisco Pérez Navarro), but Jan later took over this duty as well. 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ...
Superman, nicknamed The Man of Steel, is a fictional character and superhero who first appeared in Action Comics #1 in 1938 and eventually became one of the most popular and well-known comic book icons of all time. ...
In 1982, Jan worked on the periodicial Pulgarcito for Editorial Bruguera, and stopped work on Superlópez in order to do so. However, he decided to abandon this in order to devote himself fully to his creation. Jan's eldest son ended up doing some work on Pulgarcito, but also eventually abandoned this task. 1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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